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Piezoelectricity
Throughout the day, humans across the world exert energy in commuting to different locations and moving our bodies, yet all the energy dissipates in the form of exhaust like carbon dioxide, heat, and entropy. Jacques and Pierre Curie discovered piezoelectricity, with the Greek word piezo meaning push, in 1880. In the study of piezoelectricity, physicists explore the concept of energy being consistent and equal in each form (according to the Law of Conservation of Energy) by converting mechanical stress into electricity. With piezomaterials like ferroelectrics and crystals, scientists, manipulating the direct piezoelectric effect, can use two oppositely charged ions to create an external electric field when any mechanical stress, or pressure, is applied to the materials. From the inverse piezoelectric effect, any external electric fields can compress the ions to generate mechanical stress, or pressure on the materials. During World War II, ferromagnetic materials, or materials that align electrons into parallel positions in certain domains, exposed to the Curie temperatu re, or temperature that causes changes within a magnetic field, were discovered to contain higher piezoelectric properties than crytals like quartz, expanidng the research into piezoelectricity as a source for local electricity. Although scientists use the research of piezoelectricty for the development of instruments that can sense atomic resolution and electronic frequency generation, people can apply piezoelectric ceramics to any places with huge sources of wasted physical energy like the sidewalks or highways to conduct astounding amounts of electricity with little to no carbon emissions. On April 20, 2017, California instituted a project, funded by the Public Utilities Commission with $2 million to install piezoelectric ceramics on highways for the utilization of traffic and movement cars as a source of sustainable energy. Despite its infancy, piezoelectricty has the potential to generate electricity through day-to-day activities and provide the world a sustainable energy source that relies on physcial movement and activity.
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https://www.piceramic.com/en/piezo-tech … damentals/
http://www.govtech.com/fs/California-to … ource.html