Electrostatic self-assembly, however, coats every exposed surface of an object, and does it at room temperature.
If the effort succeeds, the sheets would be the first flexible and scalable thin sheet-like electrostatic storage product available today.
The electrostatic headphones combined with a companion all-valve amp are what many consider to be a reference point in hi-fi.
When a voltage is applied, the electrostatic force that results either attracts the two mirrors together, or pushes them apart.
Rather than dusting or other chemical techniques, this team has developed a means of detecting fingerprints using an electrostatic charge.
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It turns out that transistors in these flash-memory devices are prone to being gummed up with electrostatic charge that they cannot dissipate.
The Virginia Tech group envisages a variety of applications for electrostatic self-assembly.
These electrostatic headphones with a vacuum tube amplifier, which came onto the market around 20 years ago, have become an icon in the audio world.
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The leaves also have an electrostatic charge that also attracts particles.
And since hydrogen is electrically neutral, it should be possible to observe gravity's tiny tug on it without the confounding effects of electrostatic attraction to other particles.
The nuclei in the plasmoid, so the theory goes, would be moving so fast that when they hit each other they would overcome their mutual electrostatic repulsion and merge.
"By harnessing the electrostatic nature of the assembly process with the functional properties of the virus, we can create highly ordered composite thin films combining the function of the virus and polymer systems, " Hammond says.
While we're fairly certain you already own at least one piece of apparel with electrostatic iPod controls on them, they'll eventually end up in the wash (we hope), leaving you liaison-less for the day.
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Less than a month after I mentioned a new fingerprinting technique using electrostatic charges, forensic scientist Dr. Xanthe Spindler of the University of Technology Sydney in Australia has announced a wildly different new fingerprinting technique.
Once these polymers come into contact with water in or on the body, they self assemble into a new polymer structure that is designed to target bacteria membranes based on electrostatic interaction and break through their cell membranes and walls.
The leak has given us the first glimpse at the Lumix GF6's full spec list, which include the same 16-megapixel sensor as the GX1, a new Venus engine to assist with imaging performance, an electrostatic touchscreen and (in a first for ILCs) built-in NFC .
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