Strange Liquid That Produces Electricity When Touched

Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about a new discovery of the first ever piezoelectric liquid
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[darryltaylor]

I’ve decided to watch more Anton and less and less news. In general it makes me happier🧸

[jackielinde]

I know another use case for ionic liquids that wasn't touched on in this video: Strain Gauges and other stress sensors. If it creates an electric charge when compressed or pulled apart, you could use that to make sensors for things like bridges, buildings, and roads. (You can thank Grady at Practical Engineering for putting out a video on that topic the same day this video came out.)

[dragnothlecoona]

pressure sensitive materials that produce electricity could be used to create a sense of touch for a synthetic limb.

[Skeptical_Numbat]

Do they exhibit inverse Piezoelectric effect, I wonder? If you add charge, do you get expansion, or shape deformation? This would make for some pretty interesting speakers, motors & other (more esoteric) devices like pseudo-muscles...

[davidprice]

Hands down the best YouTube content creator I have found. Taking content from technical papers, making it understandable, WITH editing every day- amazing!!

[Nefville]

The largest application of the piezoelectric effect is in fuel injectors. Especially on newer cars that use a very high psi direct injection system which incidentally also cools the charge allowing for a higher compression ratio to be used for better fuel economy and performance. Its good stuff.

[KastorFlux]

Thin film piezoelectric reed sensors are inexpensive but don't get a clean transformation of vibration to electrical impulse because they're difficult to crimp leads onto without deforming them.

There are other vibration sensors that basically use tiny balls in a can, but when the balls get stuck they stop working, and even on their best days they're not even close to an accelerometer.

I don't know how this stuff would react to acceleration and vibration, or if it would behave like a semiconductor, but I would definitely run the experiments.

Analog computing is making a comeback in the form of "quantum computers", and they need materials that can be brought to extremely low temperatures. Maybe we'll see this stuff in "liquid state devices" and the transistor will go the way of the vacuum tube...

[tdoubt]

It's the sheer diversity of your presentations that keep me coming back for more. Thanks Anton

[raymobula]

We used ionic liquids as a solvent at a polymer research group I worked at 15y’s ago.
Those liquids are considered to enable green chemistry, getting rid of some of the nasty stuff. Most likely it’s not cost efficient to use ionic liquids.

[Dr-xjty]

These have been known about for a quite a while and were used to create a battery with the liquid under pressure for use in Antarctic but the results were erratic due to the swing in temperatures during day and night.

[bdegrand]

Anton, videos like this inspire so much creative thought for developing new tachnology. Bravo!!!

[ryanvaros]

I wish there was more research done with piezoelectric applications. Seems like the perfect tech for high-pressure exploration. Deep sea, venus, jupiter, etc.

[ArtisanTony]

How much energy does it take to compress the liquid vs what you get out of it?

[doctorhabilthcjesus]

Electrohydraulics without complicated pumps, sounds great.

[costrio]

Fluidics is a method of making circuitry (of a sort) in their liquid recipes. I wonder if carrying a charge might be an advantage and a way to may more dynamic fluidic usages? Just wondering...

[KaliFissure]

For physics clarity...
All dielectric fluids will create charge when they move. It's called charge separation and oil pipes are designed to prevent build up or a spark can form in the following oil and spontaneously either explode or change flow characteristic.

[pnf]

Petrovism: On talking about ionic fluids, "While researching this, I never even heard of it, I got super excited." We know, we do too:)

[EEVblog]

Wood also strangely exhibits a piezoelectric effect. I wonder if it's because of the moisture content?

[garyangelstad]

Back in the day, we used piezzo electric tweeters( for our sound system, not social media) they were cheap, tough and worked well

[jimleane]

A completely new concept to me. Thanks Anton