Shape and Charge: Faraday's Ice Pail Experiment Revisited
Electrically insulating objects gain a net electrical charge when brought in and out of contact. This phenomenon, known as triboelectrification, is very common and familiar to many of us from a car static zap, to the danger of ignition for hydrocarbons flowing through poorly grounded pipes, to the t...
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| description | Electrically insulating objects gain a net electrical charge when brought in and out of contact. This phenomenon, known as triboelectrification, is very common and familiar to many of us from a car static zap, to the danger of ignition for hydrocarbons flowing through poorly grounded pipes, to the transfer of inks in a xerographic device. Despite our familiarity with triboelectrification, we still do not have a complete chemical picture of its origin,(1−4) and the exact mechanism by which objects that do not conduct electricity gain an electric charge remains a long-standing scientific puzzle.(4−6) In this issue of ACS Central Science, Soh and co-workers explore another aspect of this phenomenon: the relationship between static charge and the shape of the objects.(7) |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-807492021-01-07T07:46:47Z Shape and Charge: Faraday's Ice Pail Experiment Revisited Zhang, J. Ciampi, Simone Science & Technology Physical Sciences Chemistry, Multidisciplinary Chemistry Electrically insulating objects gain a net electrical charge when brought in and out of contact. This phenomenon, known as triboelectrification, is very common and familiar to many of us from a car static zap, to the danger of ignition for hydrocarbons flowing through poorly grounded pipes, to the transfer of inks in a xerographic device. Despite our familiarity with triboelectrification, we still do not have a complete chemical picture of its origin,(1−4) and the exact mechanism by which objects that do not conduct electricity gain an electric charge remains a long-standing scientific puzzle.(4−6) In this issue of ACS Central Science, Soh and co-workers explore another aspect of this phenomenon: the relationship between static charge and the shape of the objects.(7) 2020 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/80749 10.1021/acscentsci.0c00298 English http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ AMER CHEMICAL SOC fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Science & Technology Physical Sciences Chemistry, Multidisciplinary Chemistry Zhang, J. Ciampi, Simone Shape and Charge: Faraday's Ice Pail Experiment Revisited |
| title | Shape and Charge: Faraday's Ice Pail Experiment Revisited |
| title_full | Shape and Charge: Faraday's Ice Pail Experiment Revisited |
| title_fullStr | Shape and Charge: Faraday's Ice Pail Experiment Revisited |
| title_full_unstemmed | Shape and Charge: Faraday's Ice Pail Experiment Revisited |
| title_short | Shape and Charge: Faraday's Ice Pail Experiment Revisited |
| title_sort | shape and charge: faraday's ice pail experiment revisited |
| topic | Science & Technology Physical Sciences Chemistry, Multidisciplinary Chemistry |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/80749 |