Using the gravitational energy of water to generate power by separation of charge at interfaces

Harvesting Water Drop Energy by a Sequential Contact-Electrification and Electrostatic-Induction Process

(2014) Zong-Hong Lin et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

High-Performance Ionic Diode Membrane for Salinity Gradient Power Generation

(2014) Jun Gao et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Charging of Multiple Interacting Particles by Contact Electrification

(2014) Siowling Soh et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Generating electricity by moving a droplet of ionic liquid along graphene

(2014) Jun Yin et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Triboelectric Nanogenerators as New Energy Technology for Self-Powered Systems and as Active Mechanical and Chemical Sensors

(2013) Zhong Lin Wang   ACS Nano

Water-Solid Surface Contact Electrification and its Use for Harvesting Liquid-Wave Energy

(2013) Zong-Hong Lin et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Contact De-electrification of Electrostatically Charged Polymers

(2012) Siowling Soh et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Nanoscale Triboelectric-Effect-Enabled Energy Conversion for Sustainably Powering Portable Electronics

(2012) Sihong Wang et al.   NANO LETTERS

The Absence of Redox Reactions for Palladium(II) and Copper(II) on Electrostatically Charged Teflon: Relevance to the Concept of “Cryptoelectrons”

(2011) Silvia Piperno et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

The Mosaic of Surface Charge in Contact Electrification

(2011) H. T. Baytekin et al.   SCIENCE

Energy Harvesting with Single-Ion-Selective Nanopores: A Concentration-Gradient-Driven Nanofluidic Power Source

(2010) Wei Guo et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Electrostatic Charging Due to Separation of Ions at Interfaces: Contact Electrification of Ionic Electrets

(2008) Logan S. McCarty et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Electrostatic electrochemistry at insulators

(2008) Chongyang Liu et al.   NATURE MATERIALS