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When an electric field interacts with a medium of inhomogeneous dielectric constant, there is a flow of matter in the direction of increasing dielectric constant. The process may be relevant to the study of biological membranes.
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BREUER, M., ROBINSON, D. Dielectric Diffusion—A New Cross Phenomenon. Nature 221, 1116–1118 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/2211116a0
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