{"id":112782,"date":"2025-10-10T06:30:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T06:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/112782\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T06:30:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T06:30:12","slug":"chinese-and-spanish-scientists-tap-into-salt-laced-ice-to-generate-electricity-with-a-twist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/112782\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese and Spanish scientists tap into salt-laced ice to generate electricity \u2013 with a twist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Scientists from China and Spain have discovered that adding salt to ice can enable it to generate electricity, opening up the possibility of harnessing clean power in cold environments \u2013 with a twist.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The team found that when salt-doped ice was bent, it could generate an electrical response comparable to some of the best ceramic materials used for their electrical properties.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The researchers used saline ice to fabricate devices that showed their potential to be used as a low-cost source of energy in cold environments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite 10 per cent of the Earth\u2019s surface being covered by ice, <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3327343\/arctic-thaw-chinas-polar-ambitions-face-test-us-russia-eye-cooperation?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ice power remains untapped<\/a>,\u201d the team said in a paper published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Materials last month.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In August, the same team from China and Spain, along with researchers from Stony Brook University in New York, published a paper in Nature Physics revealing the potential for ice to generate power through bending.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">They found that this is possible due to flexoelectricity, or the generation of an electrical charge when a material is subjected to a source of strain that is not uniform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scientists from China and Spain have discovered that adding salt to ice can enable it to generate electricity,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[69814,381,20369,69808,18,69809,4625,41498,12403,69815,69813,19,69811,17,2663,69812,69816,69810,69807,513,1434,133,383,32862,20068],"class_list":{"0":"post-112782","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-catalan-institute-of-nanoscience-and-nanotechnology","9":"tag-china","10":"tag-china-science-daily","11":"tag-cold-environments","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-electric-motors","14":"tag-electricity","15":"tag-enceladus","16":"tag-europa","17":"tag-flexoelectric-coefficient","18":"tag-ice-power","19":"tag-ie","20":"tag-imdea-materials-institute","21":"tag-ireland","22":"tag-jupiter","23":"tag-ma-qianqian","24":"tag-nature-materials","25":"tag-nature-physics","26":"tag-saline-ice","27":"tag-salt","28":"tag-saturn","29":"tag-science","30":"tag-spain","31":"tag-stony-brook-university","32":"tag-xian-jiaotong-university"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}