Primary Aspects of Matter in Electric Fields

An externally applied electric field is a vectorial perturbation for chemical or orientational distributions involving interacting molecules or molecular organizations. Unlike the isotropic temperature and pressure effects on chemical-conformational transformations, direct sensitivity to electric field forces is bound to certain electrical properties of the chemical structures involved. Major structural-chemical changes in electric fields require the presence of ions, or ionized groups, or permanent or induced dipolar charge configurations, preferably in macromolecular structures. 

The primary molecular-mechanical effects of electric fields involve (a) the orientation of permanent dipoles or of dipolar parts in a more complex structure, in the direction of the applied field (b) the deformation of 

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