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03-16-2016, 05:02 PM
Researchers work on ways to keep planes ice-free
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Winter air travel can get complicated when temperatures dip below freezing.*Ensuring that an airplane is free of ice is a critical but expensive and time-consuming part of the process before take-off.
But several groups of researchers are working on in**vative solutions to icy conditions, and both Japanese researchers and a team at the University of Michigan an**unced projects in the past week that could eventually make deicing a thing of the past.
SEE ALSO: Why airplane ******* are round (http://mashable.com/2016/01/20/round-airplane-*******/)
Japanese researchers an**unced (http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-03/acs-nmc021916.php) the development of a*gel coating — which was partially inspired by the secretion of slugs — that becomes liquid-like when temperatures drop below freezing, making*surfaces on the plane so slippery that ice can**t adhere to it. As temperatures rise, the liquid turns back into a gel. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/03/16/deice-gel/)
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Winter air travel can get complicated when temperatures dip below freezing.*Ensuring that an airplane is free of ice is a critical but expensive and time-consuming part of the process before take-off.
But several groups of researchers are working on in**vative solutions to icy conditions, and both Japanese researchers and a team at the University of Michigan an**unced projects in the past week that could eventually make deicing a thing of the past.
SEE ALSO: Why airplane ******* are round (http://mashable.com/2016/01/20/round-airplane-*******/)
Japanese researchers an**unced (http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-03/acs-nmc021916.php) the development of a*gel coating — which was partially inspired by the secretion of slugs — that becomes liquid-like when temperatures drop below freezing, making*surfaces on the plane so slippery that ice can**t adhere to it. As temperatures rise, the liquid turns back into a gel. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/03/16/deice-gel/)
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