Electrically insulating objects gain a net electrical charge when brought in and out of contact.
This phenomenon—triboelectricity—involves the flow of charged species, but conclusively …

Whether electrons or ions are involved in triboelectric charging of insulators remains elusive.
We designed polymers whose surface compositions (determined by X-ray photoelectron …

Contact electrification is the phenomenon in which static charge is generated when two
materials come into contact and are then separated. After contact, one material charges …

Tribocharged polymers display macroscopically patterned positive and negative domains,
verifying the fractal geometry of electrostatic mosaics previously detected by electric probe …

Tribocharging is a process in which materials contact one another, rub, and then separate,
each with a resulting charge distribution that is generally uniform on a macroscopic level but …

A semi-quantitative tribo-charging series that includes a wide range of synthetic and natural
polymers was constructed by combining four qualitative triboelectric series from literature …

Contact electrification and the triboelectric effect are complex processes for mechanical-to-
electrical energy conversion, particularly for highly deformable polymers. While generating …

Tribolectric charging results from contact between surfaces, but precisely what is meant by
each is not defined or understood, as they relate to charging. The recent microscopic …

Contact electrification and triboelectric charging are areas of intense research. Despite their
low ability to accept or donate electrons, polymer insulator based triboelectric …

Electrostatics is now in its second decade of great activity that challenged wellestablished
ideas substituting them for new concepts. As it often happens in science, this was made …