Piezoelectric Capacitance Crystals

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Technical Specifications	Technical Specifications
Name 	Piezoelectric Capacitance Crystals
Classification 	Synthetic Crystal
Type 	Energy storage and artificial muscle
With research into suit based technology came an ever growing demand for portable power supplies to match the increasingly volt-hungry components used in high end electronics, mechanical components, and large industrial projects. Though research into sludge itself proved to be a dead end due to its sheer volatility, basic observation of the material was enlightening to the scientists studying it. Exploring energy storage technology with the lessons learnt through their observations yielded interesting results.
Pandora discovered (or rather, fabricated) a translucent crystalline substance based on a titanium/vanadium metastable alloy that displays extreme and highly unusual piezoelectric properties. Depending on the configuration of the crystal, the substance can either store vast amounts of electrical energy that can be quickly retrieved (acting as a powerful capacitor), or it can expand or contract along a certain axis. Though fragile from certain angles, if struck on it’s preferred face, the crystal can absorb a portion of the kinetic energy as electricity and can easily resist bullets or explosives.
When created under certain conditions, the crystal can display other strange properties, such as acting as a liquid-crystal ferrofluid when created in microgravity. LPCCs are used in military grade prosthetics in place of muscles in a biological limb.
PCCs are currently under testing for use in armour plating, personal body armour, and other advanced defence systems due to its unique properties, though it is beginning to see wide scale adoption into civilian industrial markets in its original role as a capacitor.
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