Students and staff at Iowa State are developing new technologies to help melt away ice and snow, all with a goal of getting it on airport runways within the next year.Watch this storyResearchers at Iowa State University are trying to make ice, snow and resulting flight delays a thing of the past.“Our goal is to minimize those delays as much as possible by melting ice and snow with the heated pavements technology concept,” said associate professor Halil Ceylan.They’re looking at three different technologies, one being the application of a superhydrophobic coating to pavement. The coatings, similar to DuPont's Teflon, prevent liquids from sticking to that pavement.The other two involve heating the concrete. One method heats up the surface by pumping a warm natural gas through it. The second heats up concrete by applying a direct voltage.ISU's Department of Civil Construction and Engineering is doing it with $750,000 of funding provided by the Federal Aviation Administration.Ceylan said it's the first time the FAA has sponsored a project of this scale.They're now looking into advanced construction, developing 3D models to see how they can implement these ideas on a large scale beginning on airport runways.They've already garnered the interest of both international airports in Des Moines and Minneapolis-St. Paul.“I think this will be a very important step to cut the flight cancellations and the flight delays by implementing different phases of this research,” Ceylan said.Ceylan said he received a call from the Dallas Fort Worth Airport saying they were interested. He said the cost of implementing the new cement would be worth it in the long run.Ceylan also said this could also be used in sidewalks and driveways down the road.