Quantifying the triboelectric series

Haiyang Zou, Ying Zhang, Litong Guo, Peihong Wang, Xu He, Guozhang Dai, Haiwu Zheng, Chaoyu Chen, Aurelia Chi Wang, Cheng Xu and Zhong Lin Wang ()
Additional contact information
Haiyang Zou: School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Ying Zhang: School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Litong Guo: School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Peihong Wang: School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Xu He: School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Guozhang Dai: School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Haiwu Zheng: School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Chaoyu Chen: School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Aurelia Chi Wang: School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Cheng Xu: School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Zhong Lin Wang: School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

Nature Communications, 2019, vol. 10, issue 1, 1-9

Abstract: Abstract Triboelectrification is a well-known phenomenon that commonly occurs in nature and in our lives at any time and any place. Although each and every material exhibits triboelectrification, its quantification has not been standardized. A triboelectric series has been qualitatively ranked with regards to triboelectric polarization. Here, we introduce a universal standard method to quantify the triboelectric series for a wide range of polymers, establishing quantitative triboelectrification as a fundamental materials property. By measuring the tested materials with a liquid metal in an environment under well-defined conditions, the proposed method standardizes the experimental set up for uniformly quantifying the surface triboelectrification of general materials. The normalized triboelectric charge density is derived to reveal the intrinsic character of polymers for gaining or losing electrons. This quantitative triboelectric series may serve as a textbook standard for implementing the application of triboelectrification for energy harvesting and self-powered sensing.

Date: 2019
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (28)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-09461-x Abstract (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:nat:natcom:v:10:y:2019:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-019-09461-x

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-09461-x

Access Statistics for this article

Nature Communications is currently edited by Nathalie Le Bot, Enda Bergin and Fiona Gillespie

More articles in Nature Communications from Nature
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().