Sentences with phrase «electrostatic charge»

Although people see it as a flashing bolt, lightning begins as a complex process of electrostatic charges churning around in storm clouds.

Various forces such as surface adhesion or electrostatic charge cause the particles to adhere to each other in systems with extremely small particles measuring only a few micrometres.

The same electrostatic charge that can make hair stand on end and attach balloons to clothing could be an efficient way to drive atomically thin electronic memory devices of the future, according to a new study led by researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).

«Appealing to electrostatic charging on grains complicates things,» Radebaugh says.

University of Oregon chemists have devised a way to see the internal structures of electronic waves trapped in carbon nanotubes by external electrostatic charges.

After each run they dumped the particles out of the tube and through a device that measured the particles» accumulated individual electrostatic charges.

The experiments took place at room temperature, using uniform particle types and sizes, but previous studies have hinted that lower temperatures and varied particle sizes and compositions can magnify electrostatic charging.

Imagine the knot to be a flexible wire of fixed length, which can pass through itself if necessary and which has a uniform electrostatic charge along its length.

As these bouncing particles collide with other particles, they get charged up, eventually having so much electrostatic charge that they stick to other particles and clump.

Prevents chromosomes from collapsing into a single chromatin mass by forming a steric and electrostatic charge barrier: the protein has a high net electrical charge and acts as a surfactant, dispersing chromosomes and enabling independent chromosome motility (PubMed: 27362226).

Bio-chemically, glutamic acid carries what researchers refer to as a negative electrostatic charge.

Altius Space Machines is currently developing a robotic arm system it calls a «sticky boom», which can extend up to 100 meters, and uses electroadhesion to induce electrostatic charges onto any material (metal, plastics, glass, even asteroids) it comes into contact with, and then clamp onto the object because of the difference in charges.

Partly to compensate for rust problems on the 1957 models and partly to ensure that their Unibody cars would remain safe, as rust was a larger problem when body panels were required for strength, Chrysler pioneered the use of electrostatic charges to improve anti-rust agent adhesion in their 1960 models.

When positively charged insects fly close to a spiderweb, for example, electrostatic charges cause the web to move toward them to actively capture the hapless fliers.

Because you've given them the same electrostatic charge, they will push apart.

«This would be electrostatic charging on steroids,» says co-author Joe Dufek, a professor of Earth and atmospheric sciences at Georgia Tech.

The tumbling action of the dryer causes fabrics to rub against each other and build up electrostatic charges.

And while studying electricity, he discovered inductive capacity — that electrostatic charge is confined to the conducting surface.

We were able to replicate this process in a biologically - reasonable way in the lab by controlling the electrostatic charge of the molecules that form our synthetic liquid organelles.

«You charge it up, or build up an electrostatic charge that can be discharged as a mild shock,» he says.

Capacitors use an electrostatic charge to store energy they can release quickly, to a camera's flash, for example.

Petrol flowing through a pipe accumulates an electrostatic charge.

EMI is the result of electromagnetic radiation given off by electronic devices interrupting an electrical circuit's performance, whereas ESD is the sudden and rapid transfer of an electrostatic charge.

«Electrostatic charging could be quite important in ultimately controlling how sand moves on Titan, particularly with regard to relations between dune orientation and [winds],» he says.

But electrostatic charging could also occur between microscopic particles of smog in Titan's air, allowing the particles to glom together, grow and precipitate to its surface.

The secret to the new hydrogel's property is electrostatic charge.

«These non-silicate, granular materials can hold their electrostatic charges for days, weeks or months at a time under low - gravity conditions,» said George McDonald, a graduate student in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences who also co-authored the paper.

An «innovative project to meet the challenging conditions in space,» Sock»M offers socks laced with gold and silver threads «which help inhibit the electrostatic charge commonly found in synthetic fabric when in zero gravity».

Recently, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's (PNNL's) Hongfei Wang collaborated with a team of researchers from Northwestern University (NU) to dramatically advance the ability to study the electrostatic charges of surfaces.

The team's innovative laser - based technique now allows researchers to predict how a surface's electrostatic charge might attract particulates with opposite charges, decreasing the buildup of what NU's Franz Geiger calls «crud.»

Over time, the accumulation of electrons — which builds up electrostatic charge — became so great that the individual particles stuck to any surface and bonded extremely efficiently to one another.

One reason is the metal flake to make it silver will lay differently depending on the state of electrostatic charge.

The driver's - side airbag can deploy if an electrostatic charge occurs that can not be led to ground and the airbag clock spring is broken.