• Adhesion strength of tetrahydrofuran hydrates is dictated by substrate stiffness 

      Lin, Yan-Wen; Li, Tong; Zhang, Yi; Yan, Wei-Wei; Chen, Xiao-Ming; Zhang, Zhi-Sen; Wu, Jianyang (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Understanding the hydrate adhesion is important to tackling hydrate accretion in petro-pipelines. Herein, the relationship between the Tetrahydrofuran (THF) hydrate adhesion strength (AS) and surface stiffness on elastic ...
    • Dual-Ionic Hydrogels with Ultralong Anti-dehydration Lifespan and Superior Anti-icing Performance 

      Li, Tong; Xu, Ke; Shi, Lianxin; Wu, Jianyang; He, Jianying; Zhang, Zhiliang (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Water-rich hydrogels find a wide range of promising applications due to their combined solid/liquidlike properties. However, hydrogels often exhibit a short lifespan and suffer from functional failure due to water depletion ...
    • Durable low ice adhesion foams modulated by submicron pores 

      Li, Tong; Zhuo, Yizhi; Håkonsen, Verner; He, Jianying; Zhang, Zhiliang (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Ice accretion is a severe challenge for both production and livelihood in cold regions. Previously reported high-performance icephobic surfaces by infusing lubricants are either temporarily icephobic, chemically unstable ...
    • Edge Intelligence: Empowering Intelligence to the Edge of Network 

      Xu, Dianlei; Li, Tong; Li, Yong; Su, Xiang; Tarkoma, Sasu; Jiang, Tao; Crowcroft, Jon; Hui, Pan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Edge intelligence refers to a set of connected systems and devices for data collection, caching, processing, and analysis proximity to where data are captured based on artificial intelligence. Edge intelligence aims at ...
    • Epidermal Gland Inspired Self-Repairing Slippery Lubricant-Infused Porous Coatings with Durable Low Ice Adhesion 

      Li, Tong; Zhuo, Yizhi; Håkonsen, Verner; Rønneberg, Sigrid; He, Jianying; Zhang, Zhiliang (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      The limited durability of slippery lubricant-infused porous surfaces (SLIPS) restricts their practical applications. Inspired by the epidermal glands of skins, we developed a facile approach to durable SLIPS with gland-like ...
    • Gels as emerging anti-icing materials: a mini review 

      Zhuo, Yizhi; Chen, Jianhua; Xiao, Senbo; Li, Tong; Wang, Feng; He, Jianying; Zhang, Zhiliang (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Gel materials have drawn great attention recently in the anti-icing research community due to their remarkable potentials for reducing ice adhesion, inhibiting ice nucleation, and restricting ice propagation. Although the ...
    • Self-deicing Electrolyte Hydrogel Surfaces with Pa-level Ice Adhesion and Durable Anti-freezing/frost Performance 

      Li, Tong; Ibáñez-Ibáñez, pablo; Håkonsen, Verner; Wu, Jianyang; Xu, Ke; Zhuo, Yizhi; Luo, Sihai; He, Jianying; Zhang, Zhiliang (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Despite the remarkable advances in mitigating ice formation and accretion, however, no engineered anti-icing surfaces today can durably prevent frost formation, droplet freezing and ice accretion in an economical and ...
    • Simultaneously toughening and stiffening elastomers with octuple hydrogen bonding 

      Zhuo, Yizhi; Xia, Zhijie; Qi, Yuan; Sumigawa, Takashi; Wu, Jianyang; Sestak, Petr; Lu, Yinan; Håkonsen, Verner; Li, Tong; Wang, Feng; Chen, Wei; Xiao, Senbo; Long, Rong; Kitamura, Takayuki; Li, Liangbin; He, Jianying; Zhang, Zhiliang (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Current synthetic elastomers suffer from the well-known trade-off between toughness and stiffness. By a combination of multi-scale experiments and atomistic simulations, we demonstrate a transparent unfilled elastomer with ...
    • Stiffening surface lowers ice adhesion strength by stress concentration sites 

      Jiang, Xue; Yanwen, Lin; Xuan, Xiaowen; Zhuo, Yizhi; Wu, Jianyang; He, Jianying; Du, Xin; Zhang, Zhiliang; Li, Tong (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Mechanically softening materials have been intensively investigated to reduce ice adhesion strength based on the adhesion failure mechanism. Achieving icephobic surfaces with both low ice adhesion strength and mechanical ...
    • Ultra-durable Icephobic Coating by Molecular pulley 

      Zhuo, Yizhi; Li, Tong; Wang, Feng; Håkonsen, Verner; Xiao, Senbo; He, Jianying; Zhang, Zhiliang (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Slide-ring crosslinked polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) is designed and prepared for anti-icing/deicing application. Compared with the covalent crosslinks, the slidable crosslinks enhance the mobility of polymer networks and ...
    • Ultra-robust icephobic coatings with high toughness, strong substrate adhesion and self-healing capability 

      Zhuo, Yizhi; Håkonsen, Verner; Liu, Siqi; Li, Tong; Wang, Feng; Luo, Sihai; Xiao, Senbo; He, Jianying; Zhang, Zhiliang (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Enabling surfaces with passive anti-icing properties is an emerging, facile, economical, and energy-saving strategy to mitigate the harm caused by ice accretion. However, the combination of icephobicity and robustness still ...
    • Ultrafast self-healing and highly transparent coating with mechanically durable icephobicity 

      Zhuo, Yizhi; Xiao, Senbo; Håkonsen, Verner; Li, Tong; Wang, Feng; He, Jianying; Zhang, Zhiliang (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Excessive ice accretion on infrastructures can lead to severe damage and dysfunction. In the context of combating the build-up of unwanted icing and at the same time maintaining sunlight permeation, for instance on solar ...