electroswelling
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]electroswelling
- swelling of a material caused by application of an electric field
- 2015, O. Y. Fajardo, Fernando Bresme, Alexei A. Kornyshev, Michael Urbakh, “Electrotunable friction with ionic liquid lubricants: how important is the molecular structure of the ions?”, in arXiv[1]:
- We also demonstrate that the molecular structure of the ions plays an important role in determining the electrostriction and electroswelling of the confined film, hence showing the importance of ion-specific effects in electrotuneable friction..