So all you have to do is wrap the wings of an aircraft with special filter paper. Anyone see anything wrong with that?
Either this article is not well written or else this concept is just plain silly.
The “science” appears sound. It is now a question of devising the “technology” to make use of the knowledge in a practical way.
Charge the surface in contact with the frost more positive to generate repulsion of the frost particles. As frost is generally low in ion content and of crystalline form, it should be of low electrical conductance.
Sounds as though they may have created a Coulombic explosion in the frost.