The secret is an effect called triboelectric charging, and it's something that most people have actually seen — or felt — before. Triboelectric charging happens when a material becomes ...

A sample that had been touched to other samples many times would charge negative when touched to a fresh one. The researchers also found that the samples formed what’s known as a triboelectric ...

Aircraft and helicopter blades can build up triboelectric charge (called P-static) as a result of air friction. Spacecraft that build up enough triboelectric charge can cause interference with ...

Researchers at Boise State University have developed a novel, environmentally friendly triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) ...

Graduated charge-confinement could be the key to much improved triboelectric nano-generators (TENGs), according to the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology and Chonnam National University in ...

The research team introduced a self-charging air filter (SAF), which leverages the triboelectric effect and achieves efficient and prolonged airborne particle removal. By sandwiching the ...

The triboelectric effect is a type of contact ... Amber, for example, can acquire an electric charge by contact and separation (respectively friction) with a material like wool.

Owing to its novel design, the SET can rapidly produce a triboelectric charge density as high as ~40 nC cm-2 in seconds as the SE slides along the tribo-counter substrate. Its robust triboelectric ...