MUMBAI, India, June 6 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202311082992 A) filed by Council Of Scientific And Industrial Research, New Delhi, on Dec. 5, 2023, for 'durable anti-icing and hydrophilic copper-based alloy coating and a method thereof.'
Inventor(s) include Paritosh Dubey; Lokesh Chandra Pathak; Himanshu Bapari; and Hemant Das.
The application for the patent was published on June 6, under issue no. 23/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Natural icing or ice accretion/adhesion is categorized as a potential hazard for aviation, maritime, transportation, natural energy harvesting, and power transmission sectors. The ice accretion/adhesion deteriorates the efficiency, causes failure and economic losses, consumes a large quantity of energy for ice removal, and, most signi?cantly essential, causes safety risks. Among the vast literature published online on anti-icing or de-icing solutions, the icephobic coating solution attracts much attention in fulfilling the industry's requirements. The present invention relates to developing non-hazardous, economical coating material and coating with anti-icing properties using an optimized HVOF deposition parameter and examining the relationship of ice-phobicity with water-repellence. More specifically, it relates to the development of a (Cu-Al-Ni)-B-PTFE of powder of 58-06-36 volume fraction and its coating over the steel substrate for marine equipment, bridges, pipes, heat exchanger, UAV structure to mitigate the negative impacts of icing or delay/withstand the icing-related phenomenon."
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