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Ordinary Ice Generates Electricity when Bent or Twisted
Researchers found ice generates electricity through flexoelectric and ferroelectric effects, potentially explaining cloud electrification and lightning formation in thunderstorms.
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The ice has always evoked cold, immobility and fragility. Yet, behind this frozen appearance, matter sometimes reveals unsuspecting properties. In laboratories where extreme behaviors are studied, a new path opens up, capable of transforming our gaze on energy. The flexoelectricity of ice, long considered unlikely, now invites itself into the most serious scientific models. A persistent enigma in storm clouds For decades scientists have been see…
Scientists have discovered that ice can produce electricity when it deforms or bends: the finding can have important technological implications and, at the same time, clarify the mechanisms underlying natural phenomena such as lightning or lightning during storms.
International scientists, led by research groups from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Xi'an University in China, and Stony Brook University in New York, have discovered that ice has surprising electrical properties: when a non-uniform deformation is applied to it (such as varying tension or pressure), it generates an electric charge. This is the phenomenon of flexoelectricity, which was first measured in ice and has so far been identifie…
Bending ice generates electricity, potentially sheds light on the long-standing mystery of lightning
An international research team consisting of researchers from the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2) in Spain, Xi'an Jiaotong University in China, and Stony Brook University in the United States has discovered for the first time that ordinary ice exhibits the ' flexoelectric effect ,' meaning that ice generates electricity when bent. Flexoelectricity and surface ferroelectricity of water ice | Nature Physics https://www.n…
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