Airbus Group innovation, an industrial partner of the Laser4Fun project, was interviewed in the TV programme Futuris from euronews. The team of Elmar Bonaccurso and Vittorio Vercillo (an ESR in the project) highlighted that the environmental-friendly manufacturing and durability of engineered surfaces with superhydrophobicity and anti-icing properties are at the centre of the preoccupation of the aerospace industry. By considering laser-texturing processes, the project Laser4Fun is offering an alternative to chemical coating of aircraft wings.
For a videoclip point your webbrowser to: http://www.euronews.com/2018/05/28/phobic2ice-an-alternative-to-chemically-de-icing-planes
