University of California – Los Angeles (UCLA) researchers have designed a new device that creates electricity from falling snow, a first of a kind thing. The device is inexpensive, small, thin and flexible like a sheet of plastic. Senior author Richard Kaner, who holds UCLA’s Dr. Myung Ki Hong Endowed Chair in Materials Innovation noted, […]

A new University at Buffalo (UB) study suggests the cause of static electricity’s hair-raising phenomenon is tiny structural changes that occur at the surface of materials when they come into contact with each other. The finding could someday help technology companies create more sustainable and longer-lasting power sources for small electronic devices. Static electricity is […]

Zhong Lin Wang a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology (GIT) is using what’s technically known as the triboelectric effect to create surprising amounts of electric power by rubbing or touching two different materials together, also known as static electricity. With one stomp of his foot Wang illuminates a thousand LED bulbs – with […]

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