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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 21, 2018
Filed:
Aug. 07, 2015
United Technologies Corporation, Farmington, CT (US);
The University of Connecticut, Farmington, CT (US);
David Ulrich Furrer, Marlborough, CT (US);
Sergei F. Burlatsky, West Hartford, CT (US);
Paul Elliott, Gales Ferry, CT (US);
Stephen P. Stagon, Jacksonville, FL (US);
Hanchen Huang, Newton, MA (US);
United Technologies Corporation, Farmington, CT (US);
The University of Connecticut, Farmington, CT (US);
Abstract
An article with controllable wettability includes a substrate and a layer of a composite material supported on the substrate. The layer has an exposed surface and the composite material includes particles that have controllable polarization embedded fully or partially in a matrix. A controller is operable to selectively apply a controlled variable activation energy to the layer. The controllable polarization of the particles varies responsive to the controlled variable activation energy such that a wettability of the exposed surface also varies responsive to the controlled variable activation energy.