Tag: ice physics
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Salt-Doped Ice Electricity: Power from Bent Ice with a Twist
How salt-doped ice can generate electricity Researchers from China and Spain, with collaborators in New York, have demonstrated a surprising way to harvest electricity from ice. By introducing salt into ice, the material becomes conducive to flexoelectric effects when bent. Flexoelectricity is the generation of an electrical charge due to non-uniform mechanical strain. In this…
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Unveiling Trapped CO2 on Saturn’s Moons: JWST Sheds Light on Ice, Organics, and Solar System Chemistry
Introduction: A New Window into Outer Solar System Chemistry The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is expanding our understanding of planetary surfaces far beyond Earth. A recent study focusing on the satellites of Saturn uses JWST spectra to identify solid-state CO2 trapped within diverse host materials across eight mid-sized moons. This work reveals that CO2…