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 ...

For centuries, scientists have tried to understand triboelectric charging, commonly known as static electricity. Triboelectric charging causes toner from a photocopier or laser printer to stick to ...

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 ...

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 ...