011224_Tuteja IceCycle grant_13
(From left) Fan-Wei Wang, graduate student and Sudden Sharma, Postdoctoral Researcher in Materials Science and Engineering Department test ice and snow adhesion to a surface at the lab of Anish Tuteja, the project's principal investigator and a professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Michigan.
Imagine a world where solar panels remain ice free in the winter, planes are de-iced without toxic pollutants, and soldiers and first responders can apply lotion to protect themselves from frostbite.
That future could soon be a reality, thanks to a new grant awarded to the University of Michigan by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
The project is ramping up this month and will be the latest within DARPA's Ice Control for Cold Environments (ICE) program, which aims to control the physical properties of ice crystals to protect people and defense assets from extreme cold.
The project aims to find molecules that can be used to manipulate ice and snow in several ways, including changing the temperature at which water freezes, increasing and decreasing how strongly ice adheres to surfaces, and inhibiting or encouraging ice crystals to grow on surfaces.
Friday, January 12, 2024
Photo by Marcin Szczepanski/Lead Multimedia Storyteller, Michigan Engineering
011224_Tuteja IceCycle grant_13
(From left) Fan-Wei Wang, graduate student and Sudden Sharma, Postdoctoral Researcher in Materials Science and Engineering Department test ice and snow adhesion to a surface at the lab of Anish Tuteja, the project's principal investigator and a professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Michigan.
Imagine a world where solar panels remain ice free in the winter, planes are de-iced without toxic pollutants, and soldiers and first responders can apply lotion to protect themselves from frostbite.
That future could soon be a reality, thanks to a new grant awarded to the University of Michigan by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
The project is ramping up this month and will be the latest within DARPA's Ice Control for Cold Environments (ICE) program, which aims to control the physical properties of ice crystals to protect people and defense assets from extreme cold.
The project aims to find molecules that can be used to manipulate ice and snow in several ways, including changing the temperature at which water freezes, increasing and decreasing how strongly ice adheres to surfaces, and inhibiting or encouraging ice crystals to grow on surfaces.
Friday, January 12, 2024
Photo by Marcin Szczepanski/Lead Multimedia Storyteller, Michigan Engineering