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Room-Temperature Ionic Liquids Show Piezoelectric Effects!

University of Massachusetts-Amherst/Lovley


By Dr. Inés Urdaneta, Physicist at Resonance Science Foundation

A team from Michigan State University have reported for the first time the piezoelectric effect in liquid phase. This was totally unexpected because, as it will be further explained in this article, the effect was thought to come solely from changes in the shape of a sample due to mechanical stress or pressure, and therefore, could only concern solids (such as certain crystals) and biological samples (such as bone).  

The fact that the effect was found in ionic rather than the common neutrally composed liquids, is probably a main factor for such a discovery, that may very well provide new physics understanding of the liquid phase in a broader sense.  

Ionic liquids (ILs) are salts in liquid state, meaning that these salts are “melted” in its ionic or charge components. Overall, the liquid is neutral, but its units are not neutral; they are ions,...

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