A silane-couplers has been often used to modify surface of
the material (Yoshioka and Ikeno, 1983; Yoshino et al., 1995;
Vennerberg et al., 2014). One of the authors previously developed
a method to easily coat glass and copper test plates with
thin films made from a silane-couplers without using special
high-cost devices, and it was found that the ice adhesion force
could be controlled by the thin film chemistry (Matsumoto
et al., 2013). However, since investigating the possibility of
controlling the ice adhesion force using these thin films was
the main focus, there was insufficient investigation of the
characteristics of the thin films themselves, such as growth
characteristic of the film thickness, the durability of the surface
modification effect due to the thin film and their mechanical
durability for several pairs of silane-couplers and
base test plate materials. However, these characteristics are
very important for the practical application of the developed
method.