Adventitious carbon breaks symmetry in oxide contact electrification - Nature By measuring charge exchange in a sphere/plate pair composed of identical amorphous silicon dioxide and controlling charging polarity using baking or plasma treatment, adventitious carbon is shown to ...

Link to the paper in @nature.com: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

With Galien Grosjean and Scott Waitukaitis
@springernature.com, @natureportfolio.nature.com

#staticelectricity #contactelectrification #acousticlevitation #levitation #charge #carbon #adventitiouscarbon

PNAS Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

The team’s results could find applications in materials science, robotics, and microengineering.

Link to the article in @pnas.org: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

#acousticlevitation #levitation #levitatedmatter #acousticcollapse #charge #electrostatics

youtu.be/bYTDq_k9Jik?...

#Acousticlevitation is here folks! The start of something world changing. It's on a small scale now, but it's the first step!
#SoundLevitation #Levitation #standingwaves #science #physics #newtech #tech

Welcome to Bluesky @hessammehr.bsky.social! I hope we'll be hacking more often and posting more content from our hacking sessions in the future! 😊 #physics #acousticlevitation