The Wimshurst machine is seen largely as a curio today, but it did have genuine scientific applications back in the day. Beyond simply using it to investigate static electricity, its output could ...

And it’s all because of static electricity. Static electricity is a build up of electric charge on an object, and it can have some pretty strange effects. See, everything around us is made up of ...

Solving the Mystery of Static Electricity for Practical Applications The phenomenon of static electricity has been observed ...

Scientists have found a way to turn static electricity into usable energy using a simple, cost-effective triboelectric ...

Zaps of static electricity might be a wintertime annoyance, but to certain scientists, they represent an untapped source of energy. Using a device called a triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG), ...

Improving upon a previously reported design, researchers publishing in ACS Omega have created a triboelectric nanogenerator ...

Understanding the mechanisms behind static electricity opens up new possibilities for controlling and harnessing this force.

The triboelectric effect, also known as triboelectric charging, is a fascinating phenomenon that occurs when certain materials come into contact and then separate, resulting in an exchange of electric ...

The Accutron is equipped with the electrostatic drive system, which uses electric power produced from static electricity to operate the second hand with an electrostatic motor. The minute and hour ...