Please consider attending the following: MATERIALS ENGINEERING SEMINAR "Durable Icephobic Coatings for Aluminum Substrates" By Sathish Kumar Ranganathan Purdue MSE Ph.D. Preliminary Exam Advisors: Professors Jeffery P. Youngblood and John A. Howarter ABSTRACT Development of durable ice-phobic coatings and mitigation of ice accumulation on solid surfaces has proven to be a challenging task in the past decade. Considering the current limitations to the state of the art, development of durable superhydrophobic surfaces which could deliver less ice accretion and low ice adhesion strength is an important research milestone. Improving experimental understating of ice phobic performance, such as the correlation between ice adhesion strength and ice removal conditions, as well as the role of surface wetting properties to the rate of ice accumulation would be quite valuable. Therefore, highly durable Fluoro-Ethylene-Alkyl-Vinyl-Ether (FEVE) based slippery and superhydrophobic coating will be developed to study its durability at extreme ageing conditions and retention of icephobic performance will be validated to understand potential benefits for industrial applications. Date: Tuesday, December 05, 2017 Time: 9.30 A.M. Place: HAMP 1266