More about ‘Flexoelectricity’ here:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-025-02995-6
One more surprise in the ‘ice’ category … which is now up to 19 forms. (Know of any other solids which float on their liquid form?)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phases_of_ice#Known_phases
“The details of the chemical nature of liquid water are not well understood; some theories suggest that its unusual behavior is due to the existence of two liquid states.” - WP
Maybe it can be turned into a piezo driven acousto optic modulator…a self healing one.
A water based electric drum set?
No, more like dull Christmas freezing light blinking entertainment… Like it might twinkle a light passing through the ice at freezing temperature if you input a sound frequency into the crystal.
I assume that one could use the ice as a guitar pickup too probably?
More like self heaTIng one.
LOL. It could be pretty cool…literally.