Physicists Turn Liquid into Solid Using an Electric Field
Wednesday, October 12, 2011 - 21:00
in Physics & Chemistry
Physicists have predicted that under the influence of sufficiently high electric fields, liquid droplets of certain materials will undergo solidification, forming crystallites at temperature and pressure conditions that correspond to liquid droplets at field-free conditions. This electric-field-induced phase transformation is termed electrocrystallization. The study was performed by scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology.