Engineering polymer interfaces: a review toward controlling triboelectric surface charge

A Šutka, L Lapčinskis, D He, H Kim… - Advanced Materials …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Contact electrification and triboelectric charging are areas of intense research. Despite their
low ability to accept or donate electrons, polymer insulator based triboelectric …

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 …

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 …

Triboelectric Spectroscopy for In Situ Chemical Analysis of Liquids

J Zhang, X Wang, L Zhang, S Lin… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Chemical analysis of ions and small organic molecules in liquid samples is crucial for
applications in chemistry, biology, environmental sciences, and health monitoring …

Electrostatics and electrochemistry: mechanism and scope of charge-transfer reactions on the surface of tribocharged insulators

J Zhang, ML Coote, S Ciampi - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The phenomenon of surface electrification upon contact is a long-standing scientific puzzle,
with for instance written accounts of charged samples of amber attracting feathers dating …

Improving the performances of direct-current triboelectric nanogenerators with surface chemistry

X Lyu, S Ciampi - Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science, 2022 - Elsevier
Over the past decade, triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs)–small and portable devices
designed to harvest electricity from mechanical vibrations and friction–have matured from a …

Electrostatic charges regulate chemiluminescence by electron transfer at the liquid–solid interface

J Zhang, S Lin, ZL Wang - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2022 - ACS Publications
The role of the electrostatic environment in chemical reactions has long been an important
research field, but most studies have focused on the influence of external electric fields on …

Sliding silicon-based Schottky diodes: Maximizing triboelectricity with surface chemistry

S Ferrie, AP Le Brun, G Krishnan, GG Andersson… - Nano Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Triboelectric nanogenerators are an emerging energy technology which harvests electricity
from mechanical energy. Within this technology there are sliding metal–semiconductor …