Icing and De-icing Technologies

Icing and De-icing Technologies is a research topic within Aerospace Engineering. Science Explorer counts 12k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the development and evaluation of various techniques to mitigate icing on wind turbines and aircraft. It covers topics such as anti-icing systems, de-icing techniques, aerodynamic performance under icing conditions, ultrasonic de-icing, and surface engineering issues critical to performance.

Icing Mitigation
Wind Turbines
Aircraft Icing
De-icing Techniques
Ice Accretion
Anti-icing Systems
Atmospheric Icing
Aerodynamic Performance
Ultrasonic De-icing
Surface Engineering

Research works: 12k
In the world top 10%: 1.2k
Top-10% rate: 10.0%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25: +39%
Largest producer: China

Icing and De-icing Technologies

Which countries lead Icing and De-icing Technologies research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (1.6k and 325 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

1 China 1.6k works
2 United States 325 works
3 Canada 117 works
4 Germany 92 works
5 Russia 88 works
6 India 86 works
7 United Kingdom 80 works
8 Japan 76 works
9 France 65 works
10 Italy 62 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

China1,587 · 61.5%United States325 · 12.6%Canada117 · 4.5%Germany92 · 3.6%6 others listed457 · 17.7%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Icing and De-icing Technologies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Icing and De-icing Technologies research, followed by Chongqing University and State Grid Corporation of China (China).

By volume, 2022-now

1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 55 works
2 Chongqing UniversityChina 46 works
3 State Grid Corporation of China (China)China 45 works
4 Nanjing University of Aeronautics and AstronauticsChina 41 works
5 China Aerodynamics Research and Development CenterChina 40 works
6 China Southern Power Grid (China)China 37 works
7 North China Electric Power UniversityChina 34 works
8 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 32 works
9 Beihang UniversityChina 30 works
10 Tsinghua UniversityChina 28 works

Who are the leading researchers in Icing and De-icing Technologies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Icing and De-icing Technologies include Wei Huang, Kai You Wang and Lei Jiang.

1 Wei Huang China 267k citations
2 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
3 Lei Jiang China 214k citations
4 Pulickel Madhavapanicker Ajayan United States 173k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Icing and De-icing Technologies?

The most cited paper in Icing and De-icing Technologies is "Formation and Maturation of Phase-Separated Liquid Droplets by RNA-Binding Proteins" (Yuan Lin, David S.W. Protter, Michael K. Rosen et al., 2015), with 1,730 citations. Next come "Progess in superhydrophobic surface development" (1,617) and "Design of anti-icing surfaces: smooth, textured or slippery?" (1,518).

Most cited papers
#	Paper	Released	Citations
1	Formation and Maturation of Phase-Separated Liquid Droplets by RNA-Binding Proteins Yuan Lin, David S.W. Protter, Michael K. Rosen et al. · Molecular Cell Open access	24 Sep 2015	1,730
2	Progess in superhydrophobic surface development Paul Roach, Neil James Shirtcliffe, Michael Ian Newton · Soft Matter	30 Oct 2007	1,617
3	Design of anti-icing surfaces: smooth, textured or slippery? Michael J. Kreder, Jack Alvarenga, Philseok Kim et al. · Nature Reviews Materials ReviewOpen access	11 Jan 2016	1,518
4	Anti-Icing Superhydrophobic Coatings Liangliang Cao, Andrew K. Jones, Vinod K. Sikka et al. · Langmuir	5 Oct 2009	1,499
5	Liquid-Infused Nanostructured Surfaces with Extreme Anti-Ice and Anti-Frost Performance Philseok Kim, Tak‐Sing Wong, Jack Alvarenga et al. · ACS Nano Open access	10 Jun 2012	1,322

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Where is Icing and De-icing Technologies research done?

The largest centres of Icing and De-icing Technologies research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Nanjing (China) and Xi'an (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Mianyang and Ames.

Largest cities, 2022-now

1 BeijingChina 314 works
2 ShanghaiChina 128 works
3 NanjingChina 87 works
4 Xi'anChina 80 works
5 HarbinChina 71 works
6 GuangzhouChina 63 works
7 ChongqingChina 59 works
8 WuhanChina 59 works
9 TianjinChina 52 works
10 ChengduChina 50 works

Where it is the local speciality

MianyangCN · 45.1 works27×
AmesUS · 25.1 works21×

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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Icing and De-icing Technologies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Icing and De-icing Technologies?

Among universities, judged by research, Tsinghua University, Beihang University and Chongqing University score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged

40%

Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share

10%

Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale

30%

Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%

10%

Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad

10%

Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.

#	University	Score	Top 10%	Specialisation	Works	Growth
1	Tsinghua UniversityChina	70.9	20.5%	4.6×	28	+26.7%
2	Beihang UniversityChina	69.0	19.5%	10.3×	30	+42.8%
3	Chongqing UniversityChina	68.2	11.6%	15.9×	46	+55.3%
4	Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina	64.5	20.3%	7.3×	23	+386.4%
5	Iowa State UniversityUnited States	63.3	14.8%	24.4×	25	+9.9%
6	Nanjing University of Aeronautics and AstronauticsChina	61.3	9.4%	17.7×	41	+168.9%
7	Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina	60.3	19.4%	5.2×	23	+159.0%
8	China Three Gorges UniversityChina	60.1	25.2%	22.7×	13	+159.0%
9	Civil Aviation Flight University of ChinaChina	60.0	28.4%	51.5×	9	+122.5%
10	Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina	59.4	12.9%	4.2×	32	+44.2%
11	Université du Québec à ChicoutimiCanada	59.3	16.7%	73.5×	11	+10.6%
12	Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina	58.7	13.6%	9.0×	27	+58.6%
13	Central South UniversityChina	57.6	30.5%	2.0×	10	+100.3%
14	Technical University of DenmarkDenmark	56.7	9.5%	14.3×	19	+3.2%
15	Harbin Engineering UniversityChina	56.2	12.1%	19.8×	27	+46.5%
16	Southwest Jiaotong UniversityChina	55.8	16.8%	8.7×	18	+346.1%
17	Jilin UniversityChina	52.7	20.3%	4.4×	13	+96.3%
18	Northeast Agricultural UniversityChina	52.0	20.2%	16.4×	11	+214.8%
19	UiT The Arctic University of NorwayNorway	50.3	11.3%	28.1×	13	+21.9%
20	North China Electric Power UniversityChina	49.0	7.4%	19.4×	34	+2.6%
21	Jiangsu University of Science and TechnologyChina	48.4	16.4%	12.4×	10	+96.3%
22	Tianjin UniversityChina	47.5	21.8%	4.1×	13	+13.7%
23	Dalian University of TechnologyChina	47.3	10.5%	7.5×	19	+20.0%
24	Politecnico di MilanoItaly	46.5	5.6%	9.6×	18	+140.0%
25	Southeast UniversityChina	45.0	19.7%	2.4×	9	+90.9%
26	Sichuan UniversityChina	44.6	22.9%	1.9×	11	+241.7%
27	South China University of TechnologyChina	43.7	8.5%	3.8×	11	+42.7%
28	Norwegian University of Science and TechnologyNorway	42.2	8.1%	8.6×	13	-30.6%
29	Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina	42.1	4.4%	5.0×	23	+68.7%
30	Delft University of TechnologyNetherlands	42.0	12.1%	4.8×	9	+9.4%
31	Zhejiang UniversityChina	41.9	9.8%	2.2×	16	+49.2%
32	Tongji UniversityChina	39.6	9.8%	3.4×	14	+322.7%
33	Memorial University of NewfoundlandCanada	39.3	16.3%	17.2×	9	-13.7%
34	Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina	38.5	8.7%	3.5×	17	+96.5%
35	Wuhan University of TechnologyChina	36.0	16.1%	4.0×	8	+25.1%
36	Xinjiang UniversityChina	35.2	15.8%	7.7×	9	-
37	Shandong UniversityChina	34.6	19.0%	2.4×	8	+13.0%
38	Civil Aviation University of ChinaChina	33.4	8.0%	32.9×	12	+184.4%
39	Northeast Electric Power UniversityChina	32.5	2.9%	41.2×	14	+364.1%
40	Technische Universität BraunschweigGermany	32.1	5.5%	16.3×	9	+97.3%
41	McGill UniversityCanada	31.9	0.1%	3.1×	8	+79.0%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Icing and De-icing Technologies, country by country

Is Icing and De-icing Technologies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 39% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Icing and De-icing Technologies.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Icing and De-icing Technologies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.013% in 2024.

Fractional works of Icing and De-icing Technologies over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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Which countries lead Icing and De-icing Technologies research?

By volume, 2022-now

How concentrated that is

Which institutions lead Icing and De-icing Technologies research?

By volume, 2022-now

Who are the leading researchers in Icing and De-icing Technologies?

What are the most cited papers in Icing and De-icing Technologies?

Where is Icing and De-icing Technologies research done?

Largest cities, 2022-now

Where it is the local speciality

Where is the best place to study Icing and De-icing Technologies?

Is Icing and De-icing Technologies research growing?

Its share of all research

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Which topics inside it are moving

Related research

Discussion