After reading the article, and doing a little digging on this I can confidently say this article is utter garbage. You can look up the patent application on this, it's something to do with electrostatic forces which is a well known area of physics. Nothing magical about it.
For anyone curious, someone was kind enough to post the summary of the patent in this thread https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=60131.0