Developing Carbon-Based Icephobic Coating
ZEN (Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada) Zentek Ltd., an intellectual property development and commercialization company focused on next-generation healthcare solutions, announced that they have developed a new designed, patent-pending, carbon-based and nanotechnology-enhanced anti-ice build-up coating.
This winter, ZEN’s coating will be included in flight tests on a specially equipped research aircraft under ice-forming weather conditions. ZEN will also test the feasibility of the coating as an effective passive means of de-icing drone propellers in flight to allow
all-weather operations. If successful, this will allow for safer drone operations in significantly more challenging weather conditions.
