This Video is About Electroadhesion.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ต.ค. 2024
- How would you stick a slice of banana to a sheet of copper? Until a few months ago, you couldn’t. But a new discovery called “hard-soft electroadhesion” enables chemists to stick almost any hydrogel to almost any metal, using nothing but an electric current. Join George as he tries to replicate electroadhesion in his basement and discovers what it has in common with superglue… and, surprisingly, water.
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Executive Producer: Matthew Radcliff
Producers:
Andrew Sobey
Elaine Seward
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Writer & Host: George Zaidan
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Michelle Boucher, Ph.D.
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Srinivasa R. Raghavan, Ph.D.
Wenhao Xu
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In case you don't want to scroll all the way down to our sources in the video description, here's the electroadhesion paper:
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acscentsci.3c01593
And based off the not-yet-published stuff they told us about while we were shooting, we may have to do a follow up video at some point down the road.
Hmm, isnt the electroadhesion paper that team did 10.1021/acscentsci.3c01593 ?
Whoops, it sure is, thank you for noticing! Edited.
Dude you got to meet them that is so cool those guys are heros and you're a legend 😊
I really love this video and i have one idea how work glues in general, probably is wrong but I say anyway ,
This is from many physics disciplines :
1. From thermodynamics hot body gives electrons to cold body ,( the same principle of calorimeter ) if you melted bismuth and add another piece of cold bismuth or another metal you can see liquid metal are sticking by cold metal
2. From chemistry regular super glue are sticking by another surface but in the same time is heated or overheated depends by type of surface because give electrons to the second body
3. And electro chemistry “ electroadhesion” is the same principle of first and second samples but add electrons artificial by humans.
Is just electrons transfer from one material to another but because atoms are not changed between this 2 body’s are sticking just in electrons.
Actually that blue colour from gel is made by copper ions ( copper electrons) sticking in gel
@@ioanacsinte7971 thank you fpr the last one i wondered if it was because the material broke and just the blue light reflected or sth. idk i have a massive lack in the vocabulary needed here xD
The jello became blue because copper ions were driven into the jello by running current through it from a copper plate
prove it...
@@Alfred-Neuman The proof is in the pudding.
Makes sense for sure
If that were the case, I think we would expect to see a gradient where the blue color is strongest closest to the plate and weakest closest to the opposite plate. The sample he showed appeared to be a relatively uniform blue tint, and the time frame seems very short for ion transport like that, so I’m skeptical
I'd be interested in seeing that hypothesis tested; probably you could test clear gels with copper electrodes until you find one that turns blue like in the video, then see if it does the same with graphite electrodes? or alternately teat all your gels with both copper electrodes and graphite instead of only testing graphite on the ones that turn blue with copper
Clearly chemists should be required to hire 3-year-olds to continuously ask them "but why?", until they realize that the answer is "nobody knows (yet)."
Why could be anything. The complicated questions are "how",
@@a.randomjack6661 why and how serve the same function in this context. You can't tell why without telling how. But sure, most 3-year-olds can also employ "how."
Ever listened to Lawrence Krauss talking about this? Maybe you should...
@@a.randomjack6661 You've been rather vague with that suggestion, I assume Lawrence has said a great many things about hows and whys, but here is one of them:
"I think the biggest philosophical questions - why is there something rather than nothing - have now become scientific questions, and that the hows and whys are actually the same thing. In science, 'why' questions can always be recast as 'how' questions. And that's the kind of question I can try and answer." Big Think interview, 2011.
I would generalize that to mean that he is referring to avoiding the kind of vague existential "whys," not the specific ones, like why does this chemical stick to that one.
Isn't that what being a scientist is? Minus the three-year-olds and plus finding some actual explanations?
If i ever need to gule a piece of metal to jello, I'll come back to this video.
Someone will eventually figure out how to isolate the direction charge and end up gluing two metals together with jello.
And that has huge implications in labor savings (just assemble and apply current).
It wasn't on the screen very long, but the paper talks about gluing *tissues* to metals. As in, body parts.
A small step for humanity, a huge leap for flesh robots. @@AySz88
You can reversibly glue “almost any hydrogel to almost any metal”, where hydrogel includes fruits, veggies, meat, etc. so basically you can stick almost anything biological (any hydrogel but close enough!) to any hard surface. That’s pretty remarkable imo.
wish i saw this last week
This is an astounding example of science communication. Clear, concise, stimulating; seeing you do the experiments, getting sidetracked, asking questions and not immediately having answers makes the journey enjoyable and instructive (THIS is how science works!). thank you for making it
Is it heating. The jello stuff or whatever it is food related? Like cooking it with microscopic plasma?
@@Dcjoe94ionic bonding ?
I always get a giggle out of science deniers who triumphantly say "See, they didn't know every possible thing about this subject, and now new facts have changed how they explain it!" Hah, jokes on them. Scientists love it when new facts come up and change the explanation for something. New knowledge is the gold medal, the thing they're working for. A true scientist does not have any problem with changing a hypothesis to integrate new discoveries, as long as it takes them closer to the final solution.
Yes, it was *crazy* to me as a physicist entering materials science to realize that there's nothing all that special going on with adhesives, just a whole lot of surface contact. Most things that touch only actually make atomic contact on a small fraction of the surfaces. Pretty much anything that can go from liquid to solid can be a glue, even metal can! Which is what solder is. But! Wetting is important, just because you have a liquid on a solid doesn't mean it fills in all the nooks and crannies and bonds to it. Surface energy does matter too, which is why teflon is very hard to stick to
Teflon does make a great oxidizer in thermitic reactions. Though it goes off with a bang, and is prone to static, so…
Which blows my mind that we have developed adhesives that work with PTFE! When I first came across it at work I was shocked it (PTFE adhesive tape) even existed
Soldering isn't gluing, I mean real soldering, not brass soldering who is in fact just gluing
This seems to be a bit of rediscovery. Edison invented an audio amplifier based on electroadhesion he called the 'electro-motograph', after noting that passing an electric current between a wet absorbent substance and a metal plate caused the wet substance to stick. It used adhesion between a rotating metal disk and a chalk electrode or a rotating chalk disk and a metal electrode. Passing an intermittent electric current, for example from a carbon microphone, between the chalk and metal would cause the chalk to adhere and then slip, and the resulting pull/release action on the electrode was transmitted to a speaker diaphragm by a string.
Cool
that’s fine. he at the same time googled it at first. remember this started from a very single google search
I know this comment was two months ago, but I'd like to chime in. Edison probably observed just transient electrostatic force -- that is, it only works when voltage is passed. But in Xu, et al. (ACS Central Sci 2024), their electric currents creates covalent bonds between the electrode and the soft material. Sometimes they found it to be reversible by applying the voltage at opposite polarity, although it was case-to-case, depending on the pairing between electrode and soft material surface chemistries.
Small correction. Water is extremely sticky. Where you can wipe up most oils without having a large amount of residue left behind, water will leave a damp spot. This ability to stick to things is one of the reasons that water is so good for life because it will dissolve anything that is slightly polar which includes the nutrients inside cells. It just doesn't feel sticky because it's not very viscous. Good video though.
I accidentally found this property/ reaction between metals and various soft foods when I was a kid in the 1980s. I was experimenting with what I could use to make batteries. Well more so seeing what would work as an electrolyte, and if any of them would allow reforming of metals so they could recharge. I mentioned I was just a kid right?)
I didn't realize there was anything particularly special about it and shrugged it off as something mildly interesting. Makes you wonder how many other discoveries have happened but not realized.
LOADS, but most never find a place in the realm of practical tech that leads to it being widely known. Most discoveries start with "huh, that's weird.." ..but most people don't have an aggrandizing university name behind them that wants nothing more than to HYPE THAT SHIT.
My favorite instance of this is the "discovery" that meal worms can eat and digest polystyrene, which got people really excited about the recycling possibilities. Farmers, who feed meal worms to chickens, replied with "yeah, everyone knows they eat polystyrene. That's why you can't keep them in polystyrene cups"
@@michaelandersen7535tbf, it's a bit more complicated than that. It's one thing to know that mealworms eat polystyrene, it's another thing to know that they actually digest it properly rather than just passing it through or accumulating it.
@@PixlRainbow this is amazing news! I grow mealworms for my lizards. Unfortunately I don't have dinosaurs so I can't break down much... But I wonder if the bacteria would get passed on to other species they live with... I read it works with shrimp, but what about the lizard itself? Probably not. Guess I just need more lizards to eat the hordes of mealworms. Or go feed the birds.
Gonna guess the blue was copper salts formed by electrolysis.
correct it’s due to Cu2+ ions in the gel
Was thinking the same
Very surprising when the scientist in the paper you were talking about ended up being my professor from undergrad!
10:28, that 'movie magic' transition to you finishing up a few dotted lines was comedy gold 😂
I’m picturing practical applications for this technology and I am envisioning airlock seals on spacecraft that rely on electro adhesion with a gel interface layer creating a perfect seal reversible at a moments notice. This is a truly remarkable discovery. It has so many practical applications. It’s unbelievable. wow I love these videos. Always something new to learn, thank you for sharing this
I am not a chemistry person, but I greatly appreciate your explanations.
Water is a glue?!?!
Mind blown!
I can't believe I never thought of using ice to pull parts. The cold would reduce the diameter, and give you grip.
Now I want electroadhesive hairspray.
I feel like you could stick a smooth metal plate to a banana just with its moisture and surface tension though haha
Yes! You totally can, and if you've never done it before it's hard to tell if you're getting electroadhesion or just smooshed banana. But there is, in fact, a difference.
Pretty much this entire video was either him burning something between the two plates or it just sticking do to surface tension.
@@ACSReactions Judging by the fact that you're a banana expert, I choose trust.
@@SilvaDreams Burning isn't reversible, and surface tension is not nearly so strong.
Applications... prank your siblings by sticking their jello to their spoon?
Heck yeah
And now I'm curious about all the different types of glue and how they work. Hide glue in luthiery, flour paste and paper, contact glue.. so many adhesives out there.
I can imagine, that the bond between you and your sweet dog is very strong. Why? ... Pure LOVE.!
I'm trying to adhere to your lecture material but this lesson didn't really stick. I just can seem to bond with you on this. At least it wasn't tacky.
the writing's really on the van der Waals here haha I'm so sorry
Nerd to nerd communication
@@ACSReactions I find it ionic that you're forcing the issue. This might be an anode-dyne thing to say, but this is very cathodeartic
Need more voltage applied to your parts
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All according to Kekaku, one could say! 🤓
These videos are much more fun than they have any right to be.
You say COVID, but one notices the espresso martini look'n drink on the table.
This video is cutting edge science. I felt my brain growing over 14 minutes. Thank you!
To generalize, removing electrons from a material, i.e. ionizing it, makes it more chemically active, so chemical bonds will be part of the adhesive effect. It is useful to know the specifics of those bonds, but not essential to a general understanding of the phenomenon. Some glues work almost exclusively by mechanical bonding, others mostly chemical, but most have some combination of the two, with Van Der Waals forces contributing negligibly. However deliberately weak adhesives with reversible bonds may rely primarily on Van Der Waals forces.
That last line: gecko tape
Water is hot glue for penguins!
aw :)
for now on I will ask for a glass of "penguins' super glue"!!!
Daaaaaanng
I'm so glad TH-cam provides me with my interest
13:55 Best cliff hanger in the history of all time.
Gotta love the new science being discovered and explored. This could dead end to a ‘neat’ thing or open up whole new technologies. Damn fine work from the team and as always damn fine work from George.
Thank you!
aw yeah i love videos like this !!! because i often forget that science is happening all the time and there are SO MANY things we dont know yet. and its so exciting to glimpse into the unknown like this. ESPECIALLY hearing directly from the researchers themselves.
i extremely appreciate the research put into this vid despite the notational errors XD
i need a full video on how different glues and adhesives stick to OTHER things, thats always been such a fascinating concept to me. and how different types have different long term stickability or restickability. so fascinating lol.
this video has been the most motivating thing for me to go into chemistry for college in the past year or so lol
Hair spray was originally made from boiled flax seeds and water(probably also some alcohol or something to make it dry fast)... NOT Elmer's Glue.
You can try the flax seeds recipe it works. My wife's sister in Honduras uses it all the time.
This is going to lead to some seriously sci-fi stuff. It looks simple, but it can allow some really revolutionary things.
Its so cool that you spoke with the researchers
Oh my gosh this is the same guy as the Ted Ed animated videos !! I'm glad to finally see in person one of my heroes !!
Does it only work with extremely flat surfaces for both material? If it can stand a little roughness I can see an application where a gel or mat of gel hairs is continuously extruded onto a surface and the charge keeps it in place as the gel wears away and is replaced with new gel.
By all reason, the gel can simply conform to the unevenness of the surface. Because those copper plates he used are guaranteed very unflat at the microscopic scale. Even if they used to be at some point (they didn't), they guaranteed no longer were as soon as he cleaned them with a paper towel.
This technique will be a game changer
Every entity will be influenced by this superb
BRAVO
huh, water is glue, that is an epiphany...
Any liquid is when cooled below it's freezing point. Steel is a glue if you spread it as a liquid over rocks and let it cool.
@@filonin2 not sure about the 'any liquid'-part, for example I can see liquid butter solidified being less sticky than water-ice...
@@filonin2 i think any liquid that has a wetting property, but not any liquid?
This is great, so is the presentation. Looking forward to learning more about this when it solidifies. Thanks for the vid
Not on headphones today but the audio levels across jump cuts seems much more consistent. Good job and thanks if that was intentional. Interesting content as always. I will be sure to tell everyone I know that water is a glue.
Reversible electro-adhesion is interesting; I wonder if the other end adhered after you reversed the polarity.
A very fun and informative video, I loved the sense of humor and admitting where you messed up.
I'm a middle school science teacher
This video is so exceptionally helpful for me
"The why is really less important than . . . what can we do with it" is the perspective of an engineer, not a scientist. The value of knowing the "why" is that it leads scientists to a broadened understanding of what we can do with it, to pass along to the engineers. Of course, those who are both scientists _and_ engineers are the most valuable in this regard.
As an engineer, I think all good engineers should also be concerned with the why.
@@ExylonBotOfficial Absolutely, the best engineers are also scientists, and vice-versa. Would that all of each were both.
What are the differences between an engineer and a scientist ( engineering and science )?
@@yakut9876 generally engineering is science applied to real needs, and science is discovery of new principles which can be applied by engineers. But in practice, most engineers are also scientists, and vice-versa, in varying degrees.
@@yakut9876 I'm going to jump in here to caveat that engineering doesn't actually *need* science at all. Simply, the engineering method is solving problems using heuristics that cause the "best" change according to the application's circumstances, in a poorly understood situation, using available resources. Science merely _assists_ engineering by making "the heuristics" more consistent, "the situation" better understood, and the "available resources" more broad. They're such buddies with each other because... it's just that anything becomes easy if you know _everything._
This video speaks to my soul. Thank you.
I remember wondering about adhesion mechanisms some years ago and spending a while on the net trying to get to the bottom of it. I think the explanation that worked most for me, atleast partially, was a simple physical anchor being created as the fluid filled out porous materials and hardened.
Which i always though explained it pretty well, if not fully.
Thanks for those two papers, i think it's about time to update my knowledge on this topic!
Very good channel and very good episode. Good old organic chemistry is back.
Cool, we're both really close to UMD. Interesting that you were able to drive over and get in touch with the scientists. This is awesome work and I hope we will learn the mechanisms behind this interesting phenomenon.
1:10 Is this not heat related? Is it not cooking?
I thought so too until he reversed the polarity to "undo" the process.
This is great! I love material science/supramolecular chemistry. Back in the day I did major in organic/physical chemistry, with a touch of bionanotechnology. All up that alley.
Bro.
Ya got a new subscriber.
Not only is the video really entertaining, but you filmed part of it having/recovering from COVID.
I always thought glues work at a level far above the atomic scale. Most surfaces have nooks and crannies, liquids flow into those crannies and then harden (sticking to themselves as explained in the video), creating a bunch of micro hooks and jams (like a rock climber cams) that keep the two surfaces connected.
How smooth is a copper or graphite plate? Could the electrodes simply be heating the gels sufficiently to cause it to go from semi-solid slightly liquid and then stick through a similar process? Can you do the electroadhesion in a freezer?
Heating would work the same on both electrodes and would not depend on current flow direction. As it works on single side and is reversible with changed polarity, it cannot be heat alone.
The mechanism seems simple. It's long been known that organic molecules (such as the proteins in gelatin or the saccharides in a banana) undergo electrochemical reactions. Since this adhesion only occurs at the anode, we can infer some of the metal is being oxidized, as well as some of the nearby organic molecules. The oxidation of metal, along with the aqueous environment of both can lead to a nano-porous interface, which would adhere via capillary action. Additionally, it's possible that some component of the protein or saccharide would oxidize to form an organo-copper compound creating molecular bonds.
I would like to point out, being new here, that I am utterly not surprised that the question of how glue makes things stick together isn't scientifically detailed. We have known about protein glues stickiness since essentially time immemorial, and the first order understanding of protein glue, "It sticks because it is sticky", seems plain enough and reasonable enough that I am sure nobody actually went into an in-depth examination of exactly "how" that is the case. Because we have a first hand understanding of protein glues. Eggs stick to pans, bread sticks to stone, bonegoo and sap stick to wood. Why wouldn't protein goops be sticky? They are always sticky. Notice, your question involves an entirely different kind of glue,
the first few seconds of this video made me think this was BS but then I kept watching and I was like... no way... NO WAY!!!
Thanks for the video, random information I never knew, or would have spent a minute to find out, but now I feel more informed, I'm better for watching your video, it was not a waste of my time
I wonder if the blue gel is from free electrons, a la lithium in ammonia.
That was my first thought as well, but after more consideration it is far more likely to be copper ions driven into the gel via iontophoresis
Free electrons would probably reduce the carboxylate ions in gelatin, it’s probably a copper hydroxide colloid
Words words words uhh words 🧪🔬🥼
No. There can be no free electrons in aqueous solutions. This is hydratized Cu2+.
And this is not electroadhesion at all.
Interesting! And so simple too, just DC and banana between two copper plates, everyone could do this experiment and test with different substances, could open up a lot of applications, usually when we want to stick and release things with electricity we use electromagnetism, but now we can use this property instead to stick and unstick things :)
This looks incredibly similar to how acid batteries work over a long period but in this case it’s the buildup of material that causes a bond instead of destroying a battery. The reactive material in the solid electrolyte gets pushed to the other surface filling up the tiny gaps and creates a bond. Pole reversal shoves that material to the other side and releases to one side and fills the other. So any battery material should be able to do this in theory. This might be a good way to test for new materials in the future for batteries.
Reversing the polarity is always the right thing to do
The thing no one mentioned, including the paper, is if the researchers gave into an intrusive thought and saw if it would adhere their skin to an electrode.
If pork sticks there is a chance that we could electrically stick something to our skin and I think that would be insanely cool and have a lot of applications.
The cool thing about this is that after the electro adhesion has taken place, you don’t need continuous power to hold it so would be interesting to see what kind of applications this could have.
Do mussel byssal thread adhesion next! (Their adhesive works underwater and can stick to glass)
Just to add friendly salt to your wounds, Me is generally reserved for methyl, id use M for an unspecified metal instead.
Sigh. I think you're right. Though in my defense I did copy "Me" straight from the paper. So nobody caught it in peer review either
This means spider-man has actual science to how his wall-crawling works now.
Years ago I worked at a tech company that made a product built from glass and silicon wafers bonded together. I was curious and asked about the adhesive used and the reply was "electric charge." "Huh?"
You lay a Si wafer down flat on a hotplate/electrode, then cover it with a glass wafer, then lay the other electrode on top and heat up the whole sandwich. Glass becomes more conductive as it heats up. Run a current through the stack and the large, flat faces of the wafers stick together. Maintain the current after turning off the heat source; as it cools down the glass resumes being an insulator and the current drops to practically zero. Your two wafers are now permanently bonded together - as long as they are not exposed to very high temperatures - by separated electric charges frozen in place on either side of the interface. A better bond than any glue or adhesive and no gaps. I was told this was "electroadhesion" and was well known in certain technical niche contexts but little known otherwise. Might as well be witchcraft the first time you see it.
Water is sticky. Just doesn’t have group help from polymerization. But you said basically that with the ice explanation
Wild! I never read superglue packaging before, but as a chemist I know that LDPE doesn’t adhere to superglue. Been using the fact for a while while building figurines.
A ziplock bag saves your models from sticking to your work surface
So greatful for this video, my banana welds are looking so much better now
Thermal gel melting also sticks jello to copper, that is a resistive interface and one side is bubbling so it cannot stick
10:26 i loved how he poked fun at the magic of edition.
We just figured out how superglue works and we've had it for years soooo, yeah, might be awhile before we understand this one lol. Awesome video brother.
It is easy, since there is current flowing through the material, it means electrons flow through the material, which means some electrons are knocked out of the material, otherwise the material should have been completely insulator. With some molecules losing electrons it creates partial ionic bonds. This also explains why only one end of the material close to the anode sticks, because that end loses electrons most. On the other end of the material close to cathode, it is free electrons that rushing into the material instead of the material losing electrons.
it's oxygen bonding. the electrical charge allows oxygen to bond into the surface in some crystalline way, that is on a see-saw of energy, so it can tip back over.
I thought at first it was just burning the banana or jello to the metal, but reversing the polarity to undo it is amazing. I wonder what other things could stick, and how important conductivity is to the plate material. Could there be a threshold where you use a very resistive material at a high enough voltage to make it electroadhesive? I kinda want to try these things out. Imagine how super conductors with eletroadhesion might impact quantum computing.
Loved this video. I'm a chemist and always found glues to be a misterious material ahah. But the big question for me is ...if it is a so simple setting and it works on a variety of mecanisms so why electroadhesion was only discovered now? It wasn't right?!
Well, normally it would be answered with: "There are a lot of gaps even on a polished surface, even if we can't observe them with our eyes. And their volume and irregular structure is actually enough for glue to soak in, harden and become a hook like structure, which provides enough friction and grab force to appear "stuck for good". Also many glues create a chemical bounding and not just weak hydrogen bounding, but actually C - O or even C - C."
Im pretty sure electro-adhesion is the adhesion when an electric field is used to adhere two surfaces together. Usually very high voltages (kV) are used for electro-adhesion. When the field is removed the electro-adhesion ends. Its is not about permanently gluing surfaces together. Search electro-adhesion and gripper. Youll see lots of grippers which temporarily hold objects.
Diamonds "C" have an inherent natural affinity for grease, they use this property to obtain diamonds from the bulk pulverized rock, the materials flow along a shaking table which has a sheet of metal coated with grease, the diamonds attach to te grease.
Water structure affected by different surface tension in contact effects on it's molecular structure. It's the Bernoulli's principle. They often call it 4th or 5th state of water, etc.
Fascinating! You started to allude to it, but this new form of bonding definitely seems to rely on water.
I wonder if a conductive gel that doesn't contain water would work. 🤔
Hello.
I think the next most reasonable thing to do would be to test the boundries of electroadhesion in special cases. Two that come to my mind would be to test adhesion of the same gels to gold surface to see the impact of metal oxidation that occurs naturaly for most metals, but not for gold. The second test would involve using non-water based gels. Also it would be interesting to see what happens to an established adhesion when the water evaporates from the probe. Does it still stick or does adhesion come undone or maybe it becomes even stronger?
Fascinating. Paint chemistry works similarly
maybe something to do with electrolysis and some oxidation. and then maybe when the current is reversed, since the gasses are released at the opposite sides, they recombine into water and undo the process?
Yes. This is a video about electroadhesion. Definitely. 😁
(Excellent video, btw.)
When I was in HS (2000s) we used straight Elmer’s glue for things like Mohawks and spikes
LOL
! Love the distractions.
"Worst chemist everrrr!!!!"
Good job on the vid very well produced and engaging.
6:10 Press your from the expansion of the water turning into ice. The channels being connected from cubed to cube which is often a lot of the noise heard when cracking. Aside of that the ice is dry and so the friction is high and so when you pop the cubes out that also aids the noise
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Cool! I found the smart side of TH-cam today!
This is just the electric current melting the dielectric and causing it to fill the microscopic voids in the anode, it won't work with dielectrics that have a high melting point.
electroadhesion.....one word for two of my mist favorite things!❤️
Adhesion is caused when adhesive hardens then sticks 2 or more surfaces together. Surfaces are not always smooth, at the microscopic level a paper or other surface of a material is not actually smooth and have rough topography. The adhesive will enter the crevices and pores in the surface, and then it becomes hard, thus sticking them.
In the video, it looks like the current applied literally "cooks" or burn the surface of the items forming crystals, and thus sticking them. The only molecule bonding with significant strength for glue is covalent bond.
So it isn't just chemistry that plays it's part here but also physical too.
2:01 I don't know here, but solvated electrons are blue ;)
Solvated electrons are not stable in water. It's probably some copper salt.
Copper oxide is too.
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That's hydratized Cu2+. The consequence of "leaning chemistry" from TH-cam is that you've heard about solvated electrons, yet you don't know about basic stuff like hydratized copper(II).
my first hunch is this is related to gauge blocks & how they wring. first I'd prove that a certain gas is not being evacuated by controlling what is in the jelly stuff. If it's not related to that, then it should be possible to have non-wet glue. Cement always tripped me out. like mortar type stuff... =wild .
I bet there are many different types of 'things sticking together phenomena' that are yet to be classified. type=seeping into cracks or evacuated gas or welding etc ...
This sounds like the next big middle class among chemistry teachers. It looks like the setup to demonstrate the phenomenon would be straightforward enough.
Betcha it works with aerogel for lightweight aircraft and flight structural applications ✈️
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Have they explored the possibility of electrolysis being involved in this process?
Probably like a combination of etching the metsl plate, and metal ions forming crystals at the interface layer to hold onto the substance
Since they're gels my first thought was a vacuum adhesion. The reversibility would make sense.