electroswelling
nounEtymology From electro- + swelling.
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swelling of a material caused by application of an electric field
- 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..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: