Polymer-based triboelectric nanogenerators: Materials, characterization, and applications

M Shanbedi, H Ardebili, A Karim - Progress in Polymer Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs), a nascent field in energy conversion technologies,
provide a novel approach to producing electrical energy from mechanical motion in the …

Electrification of water: From basics to applications

Y Jin, C Wu, P Sun, M Wang, M Cui, C Zhang, Z Wang - Droplet, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
As the most common but indispensable matter to humankind, water usually stays in a
macroscopically electric neutral state. Due to its inherent molecular polarity, however, water …

All-weather droplet-based triboelectric nanogenerator for wave energy harvesting

X Wei, Z Zhao, C Zhang, W Yuan, Z Wu, J Wang… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The liquid–solid triboelectric nanogenerator (LS-TENG) has been demonstrated to harvest
energy efficiently through the contact electrification effect between liquid and solid …

[HTML][HTML] Contact-electro-catalysis for the degradation of organic pollutants using pristine dielectric powders

Z Wang, A Berbille, Y Feng, S Li, L Zhu, W Tang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Mechanochemistry has been studied for some time, but research on the reactivity of charges
exchanged by contact-electrification (CE) during mechanical stimulation remains scarce …

Liquid–solid triboelectric probes for real‐time monitoring of sucrose fluid status

T Liu, W Mo, X Zou, B Luo, S Zhang… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Triboelectric probes have rapidly developed as an efficient tool for understanding contact
electrification at liquid–solid interfaces. However, the liquid–solid electrification process is …

Triboelectric nanogenerator array as a probe for in situ dynamic mapping of interface charge transfer at a liquid–solid contacting

J Zhang, S Lin, ZL Wang - ACS nano, 2023 - ACS Publications
Contact between water droplets with hydrophobic surfaces is a common phenomenon at
functional interfaces, and it has been extensively studied. However, quantifying the charge …

Triboelectric nanogenerator as a probe for measuring the charge transfer between liquid and solid surfaces

J Zhang, S Lin, M Zheng, ZL Wang - ACS nano, 2021 - ACS Publications
The phenomenon of triboelectricity involves the flow of charged species across an interface,
but conclusively establishing the nature of the charge transfer has proven extremely difficult …

High electric fields on water microdroplets catalyze spontaneous and fast reactions in halogen-bond complexes

C Zhu, LN Pham, X Yuan, H Ouyang… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The use of external electric fields as green and efficient catalysts in synthetic chemistry has
recently received significant attention for their ability to deliver remarkable control of reaction …

Spontaneous reduction of transition metal ions by one electron in water microdroplets and the atmospheric implications

X Yuan, D Zhang, C Liang, X Zhang - Journal of the American …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Freshman chemistry teaches that Fe3+ and Cu2+ ions are stable in water solutions, but their
reduced forms, Fe2+ and Cu+, cannot exist in water as the major oxidation state due to the …

Studying the droplet sliding velocity and charge transfer at a liquid–solid interface

X Wang, J Zhang, X Liu, S Lin, ZL Wang - Journal of Materials …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The contact electrification between liquid and solid has attracted widespread attention in the
fields of energy, physics and chemistry, but its basic mechanism still remains unclear …