Hi Robin.
This in line with the free energy release of the spontaneously formed Double Layer at the
Colloidal Gold-H2O interface. I used Colloidal Gold obtained from a medical supply house
(it is/was used in spinal injection) in water heat pipe research in the late 1960s.
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> Though the ice did not melt when heated by low-intensity laser alone, it
> dissolved once a gold nanoparticle was embedded, said the scientists, whose
> findings have been published online by the journal Nano Letters
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> dissolved once a gold nanoparticle was embedded, said the scientists, whose
> findings have been published online by the journal Nano Letters
>
The laser photons should release the 1/2 CV^2 energy stored from
the free energy Double Layer. So does the electrolysis of water and many
other OU effects associated with agitation of the H2O-Solid interface.
Fred
"The Helmholtz region capacitance "CH" is of special significance for electrochemical capacitors since it is directly dependent on accessible electrode area and has large values (relative to those for regular dielectric capacitors) between about 16 µF/cm2 and about 40-50 µF/cm2, depending on electrode potential, the chemical nature of the metal surface, chemical nature of the solvent, and the types of ions (and their solvation by the solvent) present in the electrolyte solution."
"Hence, it is seen that with large specific-area porous electrodes, for example at carbons having say 1000 m2/g of material and exhibiting, say, 15 µF/(real cm2) of double-layer capacitance in some suitable electrolyte solution, the accessible capacitance "C" is 1000 (m2/g) × 10,000 (cm2/m2) × 15 (µF/cm2) = 150 million µF/g, that is 150 farads/g, a very large capacitance! Hence the term "supercapacitors" or "ultracapacitors" for devices based on double-layer capacitance at high-area substrates."
