Tariffs are greatly affecting the battery energy storage market because it’s one of the remaining clean energy sectors that ...

Abstract: Static electricity presents considerable risks ... safe operations in hazardous industrial environments involving flammable materials. Calculations and examples are provided to illustrate ...

Researchers at ISTA have discovered that the history of contact between materials determines how they exchange charge, solving a long-standing mystery about static electricity. Their findings reveal ...

20 Nature. The work could be a step toward understanding the effects behind the phenomenon of static electricity, in which electric charge accumulates on materials after they are rubbed or touched ...

By placing these beads close together and bringing them into contact, they generate more electricity than ... For centuries, static electricity has been the subject of intrigue and scientific ...

Static electricity has long remained one of physics‘ most unpredictable mysteries. However, a new study from the Waitukaitis Group at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) may have ...

(Courtesy: ISTA) Physicists in Austria have shown that the static electricity acquired by identical material samples can evolve differently over time, based on each samples’ history of contact with ...

MINNEAPOLIS — When someone touches something and gets shocked, it's awkward and a bit painful. What causes static electricity? And what actually happens when you get shocked? Visitors of the ...

Abstract: Static Electricity induced Luminescence (SEL) material ($\mathrm{SrAl}_{2} \mathrm{O}_{4}: \mathrm{Eu}^{2+}$) was recently discovered, which emits luminescence due to external energy from ...

have invented a thin patch made out of multiple layers of the material. Each layer is about one-tenth the thickness of a human hair and, when air is blown across it, static electricity is produced ...

Scientists at Northwestern University may have figured out why walking on carpet in your socks, petting your furry friend, or rubbing a balloon on your hair creates static electricity. In a new ...