应机械结构强度与振动国家重点实验室Marie-Jean Thoraval教授邀请，Carlo Antonini研究员将来访我校并作学术报告。

报告人：Carlo Antonini研究员

时间：2018年6月25日下午14:00-16:00

地点：航天航空学院教一楼第二会议室

Licence to freeze: understanding and controlling ice formation on surfaces

Icing has long been recognized as a serious hazard for safety and for functioning of systems in diverse areas such as transportation, power and communication systems, infrastructures, and even domestic or commercial appliances. The control of water behavior at the interface through the tailoring of surface wetting properties represents a great scientific and technological challenge and opportunity, which can be used as a strategy to control and mitigate ice formation on surfaces. During the lecture, Dr. Antonini will present his research activities focused on understanding the interaction mechanism between liquid and solid surfaces in freezing conditions. Focus will be given to the effects of surface wetting and topography on ice nucleation, to the wetting behavior of superhydrophobic surfaces in icing conditions, and to ice adhesion, highlighting the role of environmental conditions where relevant. A brief discussion of practical issues, challenges, and innovations in using non-wetting coatings will also presented.

报告人简介

Dr. Carlo Antonini received the BSc in Aerospace Engineering (2004) and the MSc in Aeronautical Engineering (2007), from Politecnico di Milano, Italy, and the PhD in Technologies for Energy and Environment from University of Bergamo (2011), Italy, with a thesis titled “Superhydrophobicity as a strategy against icing”. In 2012, Dr. Antonini received support from the European Research Council (ERC) to join ETH Zurich, Switzerland, as a Marie Curie Fellow; he worked in the Laboratory of Thermodynamics in Emerging Technologies on the project “ICE2: ICEphobicity for severe ICing Environments”. Since March 2015, Dr. Antonini joined EMPA – Swiss Federal Laboratory for Material Science and Technology – as scientist, focusing on the control of surface wetting properties of cellulose-based materials for various engineering applications, ranging from liquid separation (oil remediation) to thermal insulation. One of his current projects includes ice templating as a technique to fabricate ultra-porous foams from nanofibrillated cellulose with selective liquid absorption. In 2017 he started the consulting company “Antonini R&D and Innovation Consulting”, to support innovation in SMEs. In September 2018, Dr. Antonini will join the Department of Material Science at University Bicocca-Milano (Italy), as senior researcher as a Rita Levi Montalcini Fellow.