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  • 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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    Credits:
    Executive Producer: Matthew Radcliff
    Producers:
    Andrew Sobey
    Elaine Seward
    Darren Weaver
    Writer & Host: George Zaidan
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    Michelle Boucher, Ph.D.
    Rigoberto C. Advincula, Ph.D.
    Leila Duman, Ph.D.
    Srinivasa R. Raghavan, Ph.D.
    Wenhao Xu
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    Director of Programming for PBS: Gabrielle Ewing
    Assistant Director of Programming for PBS: John Campbell
    Reactions is a production of the American Chemical Society.
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Komentáře • 499

  • @ACSReactions
    @ACSReactions  Před 18 dny +85

    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.

    • @xtieburn
      @xtieburn Před 18 dny +10

      Hmm, isnt the electroadhesion paper that team did 10.1021/acscentsci.3c01593 ?

    • @ACSReactions
      @ACSReactions  Před 18 dny +14

      Whoops, it sure is, thank you for noticing! Edited.

    • @babyoda1973
      @babyoda1973 Před 11 dny +3

      Dude you got to meet them that is so cool those guys are heros and you're a legend 😊

  • @crawkn
    @crawkn Před 18 dny +768

    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)."

    • @a.randomjack6661
      @a.randomjack6661 Před 18 dny +20

      Why could be anything. The complicated questions are "how",

    • @crawkn
      @crawkn Před 18 dny +29

      @@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."

    • @a.randomjack6661
      @a.randomjack6661 Před 18 dny

      Ever listened to Lawrence Krauss talking about this? Maybe you should...

    • @crawkn
      @crawkn Před 18 dny +15

      @@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.

    • @unvergebeneid
      @unvergebeneid Před 18 dny +8

      Isn't that what being a scientist is? Minus the three-year-olds and plus finding some actual explanations?

  • @FennecTECH
    @FennecTECH Před 17 dny +312

    The jello became blue because copper ions were driven into the jello by running current through it from a copper plate

    • @Alfred-Neuman
      @Alfred-Neuman Před 17 dny +12

      prove it...

    • @jamesmcmanus
      @jamesmcmanus Před 17 dny +96

      @@Alfred-Neuman The proof is in the pudding.

    • @ganjalfcreamcorn8438
      @ganjalfcreamcorn8438 Před 17 dny +2

      Makes sense for sure

    • @SeaTurtle1122
      @SeaTurtle1122 Před 17 dny +19

      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

    • @animehair05silently88
      @animehair05silently88 Před 16 dny +4

      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

  • @rylanpeepee
    @rylanpeepee Před 18 dny +238

    If i ever need to gule a piece of metal to jello, I'll come back to this video.

    • @quintessenceSL
      @quintessenceSL Před 18 dny +17

      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).

    • @AySz88
      @AySz88 Před 17 dny +12

      It wasn't on the screen very long, but the paper talks about gluing *tissues* to metals. As in, body parts.

    • @Kenionatus
      @Kenionatus Před 17 dny

      A small step for humanity, a huge leap for flesh robots. ​@@AySz88

    • @bobert6259
      @bobert6259 Před 16 dny +8

      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.

    • @Risky_Boots999
      @Risky_Boots999 Před 11 dny

      wish i saw this last week

  • @gmozzi5827
    @gmozzi5827 Před 18 dny +235

    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

    • @Dcjoe94
      @Dcjoe94 Před 12 dny

      Is it heating. The jello stuff or whatever it is food related? Like cooking it with microscopic plasma?

    • @r-i-v-v
      @r-i-v-v Před 11 dny

      ​@@Dcjoe94ionic bonding ?

    • @gl15col
      @gl15col Před 8 dny

      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.

  • @andrewtinker7537
    @andrewtinker7537 Před 17 dny +68

    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.

  • @wolvenar
    @wolvenar Před 18 dny +110

    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.

    • @zinckensteel
      @zinckensteel Před 18 dny +25

      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.

    • @michaelandersen7535
      @michaelandersen7535 Před 17 dny +36

      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"

    • @PixlRainbow
      @PixlRainbow Před 17 dny +21

      ​@@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.

    • @machematix
      @machematix Před 12 dny +1

      ​​@@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.

  • @1495978707
    @1495978707 Před 17 dny +46

    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

    • @andrewgregoryhansen1209
      @andrewgregoryhansen1209 Před 7 dny

      Teflon does make a great oxidizer in thermitic reactions. Though it goes off with a bang, and is prone to static, so…

    • @jemmerllast8492
      @jemmerllast8492 Před 4 dny

      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

  • @wellscampbell9858
    @wellscampbell9858 Před 17 dny +30

    Gonna guess the blue was copper salts formed by electrolysis.

  • @dj_laundry_list
    @dj_laundry_list Před 18 dny +73

    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.

    • @ACSReactions
      @ACSReactions  Před 18 dny +32

      the writing's really on the van der Waals here haha I'm so sorry

    • @BarteG44
      @BarteG44 Před 17 dny +8

      Nerd to nerd communication

    • @dj_laundry_list
      @dj_laundry_list Před 17 dny +9

      @@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

    • @tedarcher9120
      @tedarcher9120 Před 17 dny +1

      Need more voltage applied to your parts

    • @ivoryas1696
      @ivoryas1696 Před 10 dny +1

      @@BarteG44
      All according to Kekaku, one could say! 🤓

  • @hathzorz
    @hathzorz Před 17 dny +14

    Very surprising when the scientist in the paper you were talking about ended up being my professor from undergrad!

  • @ktktktktktktkt
    @ktktktktktktkt Před 18 dny +32

    I feel like you could stick a smooth metal plate to a banana just with its moisture and surface tension though haha

    • @ACSReactions
      @ACSReactions  Před 18 dny +43

      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.

    • @SilvaDreams
      @SilvaDreams Před 17 dny +3

      Pretty much this entire video was either him burning something between the two plates or it just sticking do to surface tension.

    • @cavemann_
      @cavemann_ Před 17 dny +2

      @@ACSReactions Judging by the fact that you're a banana expert, I choose trust.

    • @themoleznezz
      @themoleznezz Před 6 dny +1

      @@SilvaDreams Burning isn't reversible, and surface tension is not nearly so strong.

  • @taukid421
    @taukid421 Před 18 dny +27

    10:28, that 'movie magic' transition to you finishing up a few dotted lines was comedy gold 😂

  • @FreeXenon
    @FreeXenon Před 18 dny +17

    I am not a chemistry person, but I greatly appreciate your explanations.
    Water is a glue?!?!
    Mind blown!

    • @jtjames79
      @jtjames79 Před 10 dny +3

      I can't believe I never thought of using ice to pull parts. The cold would reduce the diameter, and give you grip.

  • @cmaxxen
    @cmaxxen Před 18 dny +14

    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.

  • @AstridDaFox
    @AstridDaFox Před 15 dny +5

    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.

  • @unvergebeneid
    @unvergebeneid Před 18 dny +12

    Now I want electroadhesive hairspray.

  • @carpemkarzi
    @carpemkarzi Před 18 dny +10

    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.

  • @DH-bf9xb
    @DH-bf9xb Před 17 dny +6

    You say COVID, but one notices the espresso martini look'n drink on the table.

  • @Dumdumshum
    @Dumdumshum Před 17 dny +7

    I feel like you're overthinking this. Surface imperfections filled with monomers or other small molecules (like in the case of water) that then polymerize (or freeze) create tiny mechanical locks against lateral movement of the adhesive in relation to the bonded surface. Perpendicular movements are then mitigated by vanderwaal forces as well as chemical bonding, with the significance of each varying depending on the adhesive and the bonded surface. In the case of electroadhesion, it seems to require a soft material or one that is partially liquid. I bet the electron migration at the interface is carrying other ions along for the ride via electrostatic effects in the same way that dendrite formation occurs across the electrolyte of batteries, again creating tiny mechanical locks at the interface.

    • @jezecrobertson4625
      @jezecrobertson4625 Před 8 dny

      Mechanical locks? I'm not a chemist but it sounds like you're oversimplifying and dismissing the actual science as "overthinking"

    • @Dumdumshum
      @Dumdumshum Před 7 dny +2

      @@TheGlizzardOfKov Oh no, a single paragraph compared to an entire video. How excruciatingly complicated. I bet each word takes you a full ten seconds to comprehend, doesn't it?

    • @Loderyod
      @Loderyod Před 6 dny +1

      Yeah, isn't that's exactly how nano tape works? And it's a REALLY strong adhesive

    • @Dumdumshum
      @Dumdumshum Před 6 dny +1

      @@Loderyod I believe that what I've described is partially the cause for almost all surface adhesives.

  • @crawkn
    @crawkn Před 18 dny +6

    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.

    • @thekaxmax
      @thekaxmax Před 17 dny +2

      That last line: gecko tape

  • @1.4142
    @1.4142 Před 17 dny +9

    Applications... prank your siblings by sticking their jello to their spoon?

  • @bengraham3707
    @bengraham3707 Před 17 dny +3

    These videos are much more fun than they have any right to be.

  • @ChromicQuanta
    @ChromicQuanta Před 17 dny +11

    Water is hot glue for penguins!

  • @kuronosan
    @kuronosan Před 18 dny +9

    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.

    • @SianaGearz
      @SianaGearz Před 17 dny +4

      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.

  • @belg4mit
    @belg4mit Před 18 dny +9

    I wonder if the blue gel is from free electrons, a la lithium in ammonia.

    • @zinckensteel
      @zinckensteel Před 18 dny +13

      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

    • @user-xj8wy4uu1q
      @user-xj8wy4uu1q Před 16 dny +3

      Free electrons would probably reduce the carboxylate ions in gelatin, it’s probably a copper hydroxide colloid

    • @ogedeh
      @ogedeh Před 11 dny

      Words words words uhh words 🧪🔬🥼

    • @lajoswinkler
      @lajoswinkler Před 10 dny

      No. There can be no free electrons in aqueous solutions. This is hydratized Cu2+.
      And this is not electroadhesion at all.

  • @blindbutnotbroken1755
    @blindbutnotbroken1755 Před 16 dny +1

    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

  • @jikbrosentertainment
    @jikbrosentertainment Před 3 dny

    This means spider-man has actual science to how his wall-crawling works now.

  • @jasonneugebauer5310
    @jasonneugebauer5310 Před 17 dny +2

    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.

  • @rileyhtn6774
    @rileyhtn6774 Před 5 dny +2

    Daaaaaanng
    I'm so glad CZcams provides me with my interest

  • @Nuovoswiss
    @Nuovoswiss Před dnem +1

    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.

  • @willemvandebeek
    @willemvandebeek Před 18 dny +22

    huh, water is glue, that is an epiphany...

    • @filonin2
      @filonin2 Před 18 dny +5

      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.

    • @willemvandebeek
      @willemvandebeek Před 18 dny +9

      @@filonin2 not sure about the 'any liquid'-part, for example I can see liquid butter solidified being less sticky than water-ice...

    • @apppples
      @apppples Před 17 dny

      ​@@filonin2 i think any liquid that has a wetting property, but not any liquid?

  • @justicesportsman6020
    @justicesportsman6020 Před 8 dny +1

    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

  • @ThePrimaFacie
    @ThePrimaFacie Před 8 dny +1

    This is great, so is the presentation. Looking forward to learning more about this when it solidifies. Thanks for the vid

  • @relientker
    @relientker Před 17 dny +1

    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.

  • @autarchex
    @autarchex Před 8 dny

    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.

  • @nyuh
    @nyuh Před 17 dny +2

    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

  • @removechan10298
    @removechan10298 Před 15 dny +1

    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.

  • @TheTomCruiseLover
    @TheTomCruiseLover Před 10 dny +1

    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 !!

  • @SmirkInvestigator
    @SmirkInvestigator Před 4 dny +1

    Water is sticky. Just doesn’t have group help from polymerization. But you said basically that with the ice explanation

  • @maxmusterman3371
    @maxmusterman3371 Před 17 dny +1

    Its so cool that you spoke with the researchers

  • @alexixeno4223
    @alexixeno4223 Před 18 dny +1

    This video speaks to my soul. Thank you.

  • @Volvie
    @Volvie Před 10 dny

    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.

  • @ChristopherCurtis
    @ChristopherCurtis Před 18 dny +2

    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.

  • @noone-ez6on
    @noone-ez6on Před 16 dny

    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!

  • @CCSMrChen
    @CCSMrChen Před 17 dny +1

    This video is cutting edge science. I felt my brain growing over 14 minutes. Thank you!

  • @dalitas
    @dalitas Před 18 dny +1

    Just to add friendly salt to your wounds, Me is generally reserved for methyl, id use M for an unspecified metal instead.

    • @ACSReactions
      @ACSReactions  Před 17 dny +3

      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

  • @ChaosAura452
    @ChaosAura452 Před 6 dny +1

    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!!!

  • @daniellapain1576
    @daniellapain1576 Před 8 dny

    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.

  • @FreeXenon
    @FreeXenon Před 18 dny +3

    LOL
    ! Love the distractions.
    "Worst chemist everrrr!!!!"

  • @suwedo8677
    @suwedo8677 Před 17 dny +1

    Have they explored the possibility of electrolysis being involved in this process?

  • @peterhutchinson2836
    @peterhutchinson2836 Před 6 dny

    Good job on the vid very well produced and engaging.

  • @aerbon
    @aerbon Před 11 dny +1

    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?

  • @Infinity-fz3sn
    @Infinity-fz3sn Před 9 dny

    This technique will be a game changer
    Every entity will be influenced by this superb
    BRAVO

  • @supermaster2012
    @supermaster2012 Před 15 dny +1

    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.

  • @m.n.4370
    @m.n.4370 Před 11 dny

    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."

  • @jblack7054
    @jblack7054 Před 7 dny +1

    So greatful for this video, my banana welds are looking so much better now

  • @puffinjuice
    @puffinjuice Před 17 dny

    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.

  • @killgaet6253
    @killgaet6253 Před 5 dny

    the reason the gel became blue was most likely due to Copper reacting with something, since copper salts are generally blue.

  • @RussellBeattie
    @RussellBeattie Před 17 dny +3

    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?

    • @tenJajcus
      @tenJajcus Před 17 dny +1

      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.

  • @joehopfield
    @joehopfield Před 18 dny +1

    Do mussel byssal thread adhesion next! (Their adhesive works underwater and can stick to glass)

  • @cavemann_
    @cavemann_ Před 17 dny

    Okay, this is so freaking cool!

  • @Quadr44t
    @Quadr44t Před 17 dny

    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.

  • @AsmodeusMictian
    @AsmodeusMictian Před 16 dny

    Bro.
    Ya got a new subscriber.
    Not only is the video really entertaining, but you filmed part of it having/recovering from COVID.

  • @chounoki
    @chounoki Před 16 dny

    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.

  • @skysea7785
    @skysea7785 Před 7 dny

    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.

  • @BRUXXUS
    @BRUXXUS Před 18 dny +1

    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. 🤔

  • @josephlieberman3027
    @josephlieberman3027 Před 8 dny

    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.

  • @pon1
    @pon1 Před 16 dny +1

    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 :)

  • @stevencurtis7157
    @stevencurtis7157 Před 15 dny

    _"So does that mean that water is a glue?"_
    Yep, as much as any rock.

  • @kanayamaryam5088
    @kanayamaryam5088 Před 10 dny

    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.

  • @ronstiles2681
    @ronstiles2681 Před 10 dny

    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

  • @yesthatsam
    @yesthatsam Před 17 dny

    Amazing and so entertaining science ! You guys rock once again. Thanks so much ❤

  • @pauljs75
    @pauljs75 Před 8 dny

    Another thing is a lot of adhesives also use or are their own solvents until whatever reaction occurs that causes them to set or cure. So there might be some aspect of that property at work as well. But I'm not sure what the explanation with that may be.

  • @danbhakta
    @danbhakta Před 17 dny

    I "glued" a string to ice when i was a kid using a bit of salt...now I regret never trying to superglue string to ice to see which one gave the better bond.

  • @coorbin
    @coorbin Před 17 dny +1

    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.

  • @user-zo1kn8ob7h
    @user-zo1kn8ob7h Před 15 dny

    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

  • @CharlieSolis
    @CharlieSolis Před 7 dny

    Betcha it works with aerogel for lightweight aircraft and flight structural applications ✈️

  • @justinAclark2075
    @justinAclark2075 Před 7 dny

    Water is actually sticky already. That's how it can travel down a single strand of hair. So it makes a lot of sense that ice would stick to literally anything.

  • @filipegaspar3572
    @filipegaspar3572 Před 17 dny +1

    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?!

  • @TiagoTiagoT
    @TiagoTiagoT Před 17 dny +1

    Can you deglue super-glue using a similar electrical setup?

  • @Steaphany
    @Steaphany Před 18 dny +1

    Aren't all adhesives based upon electron - electron interactions ?

  • @AreUmygrandson
    @AreUmygrandson Před 13 dny

    When I was in HS (2000s) we used straight Elmer’s glue for things like Mohawks and spikes

  • @rotten-Z
    @rotten-Z Před 9 dny

    This kind of chemistry happens to me every time a scrambled egg burns in a frying pan.

  • @tomholroyd7519
    @tomholroyd7519 Před 18 dny +1

    Reversing the polarity is always the right thing to do

  • @Kangsteri
    @Kangsteri Před 16 dny

    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.

  • @removechan10298
    @removechan10298 Před 15 dny +1

    i̶s̶ w̶a̶t̶e̶r̶ w̶e̶t̶ is glue glued?

  • @CharlieSolis
    @CharlieSolis Před 7 dny

    Very very cool!

  • @ediseverywhere
    @ediseverywhere Před 18 dny +1

    Yes. This is a video about electroadhesion. Definitely. 😁
    (Excellent video, btw.)

  • @alejandroalzatesanchez

    10:26 i loved how he poked fun at the magic of edition.

  • @PixelatedPuzzlements
    @PixelatedPuzzlements Před 17 dny +1

    also mainly electrolysis at play, right?

  • @davidg3944
    @davidg3944 Před 18 dny +1

    First time viewing a video from you, and I have to say I'm impressed and intrigued. I am not adhered, however, despite my surplus of hydrogen bonding sites. I'll see if I can fix that using my own stock of copper sheets and a wall outlet...

    • @David-sp7gc
      @David-sp7gc Před 18 dny

      You may get a Darwin Award if your very successful

    • @davidg3944
      @davidg3944 Před 18 dny

      @@David-sp7gc At worst, I'll never go hungry again...

  • @turgityfarms3752
    @turgityfarms3752 Před 17 dny

    The blue in the clear gel is captured electrons. Heat will release the electrons and the blue color will go with them.

  • @LiborTinka
    @LiborTinka Před 14 dny +1

    This reminds me wondering why even paraffin oil "sticks" to itself (i.e. is viscous) despite being completely nonpolar - why is it viscous and nonvolatile if there is no interaction? I've looked it up -and there is also something called London dispersion force because there is a "sweet spot" distance between atoms and molecules where the electrostatic(?) repulsion is minimized. Oh and by the way even noble gases can stick to themselves - it just takes very low temperatures to see it macroscopically. Like with most things I've learned in school - I remember only that it was the topic on the class, but the teachers worked very hard to make me hate it so I quickly forgot the content. Basically had to re-learn chemistry from ground up...

  • @rare.and.important.content

    This just in: scientist discover electrowelding, again

  • @christophersmith8014
    @christophersmith8014 Před 8 dny

    Since they're gels my first thought was a vacuum adhesion. The reversibility would make sense.

  • @anonymoususer8967
    @anonymoususer8967 Před 17 dny

    With the clear Jell-O turning blue, the energy might’ve been dissipated into the color change rather than the electrode. This is completely basic though so do your own research, but it would suggest that the energy could be dissipated through the color or some other reaction with the gelatin that’s not a part of the intended reaction

  • @JinKee
    @JinKee Před 17 dny

    Check surface roughness. Could be mechanical coupling

  • @raymondprice-db3ls
    @raymondprice-db3ls Před 17 dny

    Copper ions are bonding to the anions in the electrolyte at the positive electrode. It's reversible like charging and discharging a battery. Hydrogen is evolving in the case of the negative electrode, where no other bonds to the copper forms.

  • @karlharvymarx2650
    @karlharvymarx2650 Před 16 dny

    I hope this doesn't sound mean, but has anyone verified that that the electrolysis gas on one terminal isn't disrupting the usual "vacuum" seal on that electrode while the other electrode keeps it's "vacuum" seal? By vacuum seal I mean like if you give the banana a good clean suts and press it cut against flat glass, it will probably stick like most things would. What does seem strange to me is that when you ran electricity through jello, only one terminal bubbled--shouldn't there be o2 on one and H2 on the other?