Overview
- Explores cutting-edge applications in triboelectric nanogenerators, energy harvesting, and self-powered sensors
- Discusses the physical mechanisms behind contact electrification across interfaces, from solids to liquids and gases
- Empowers researchers with strategies for optimizing materials and technologies driven by contact electrification
Part of the book series: Springer Series in Surface Sciences (SSSUR, volume 75)
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About this book
This book provides a comprehensive exploration of contact electrification across solid-solid, solid-liquid, and gas-solid interfaces. It looks into the underlying physics mechanisms, offering theoretical models and experimental methods to quantify and understand this ubiquitous yet complex phenomenon.
Covering fundamental concepts such as triboelectricity, energy band models, and tribovoltaic effects, the book discusses the interactions and charge transfer processes that occur at various interfaces. Special attention is given to the role of material properties, electron transfer dynamics, and external factors such as surface roughness and environmental conditions. Each chapter builds upon foundational principles to provide a cohesive framework for understanding both the beneficial applications and potential drawbacks of contact electrification.
In addition to theoretical insights, this book highlights cutting-edge technological applications related to contact-electrification, including triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs), self-powered sensors, and contact-electro-catalysis. Practical implementations span fields such as sustainable energy harvesting, biomedical applications, environmental sensing, and advanced materials design.
Written and edited by experts in the field, this book serves as an essential resource for researchers, engineers, and advanced students in materials science, physics, chemistry, and electrical engineering. With its rigorous treatment of the subject and focus on both foundational science and applied technologies, this book is poised to set the standard for research in contact electrification for years to come.
Keywords
- Contact Electrification Physics Mechanisms
- Triboelectric Phenomenon in Materials
- Solid-Solid Interface Electrification
- Gas-Solid Contact Electrification
- Liquid-Solid Triboelectric Effects
- Triboelectric Nanogenerator Applications
- Quantum Tribovoltaic Effect Modeling
- Schottky Contact Electrification Insights
- Insulator-Insulator Charge Transfer
- Energy Band Models for Interfaces
- Semiconductor-Liquid Contact Electrification
- Electrical Double Layer Dynamics
- Electron Transfer Mechanisms at Interfaces
- Contact Electrification Measurement Methods
- AFM-KPFM Surface Analysis Techniques
- Triboelectric Polymer Series Classification
- Contact-Electro-Catalysis Mechanisms
- Self-Powered Triboelectric Sensors
- Environmental Control in Triboelectrics
- Low-Carbon Contact-Electro-Catalysis
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Dr. Zhong Lin Wang is Director of the Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems, Director, and Regents' Professor and Hightower Chair at Georgia Institute of Technology (Emeritus). Dr. Wang pioneered the nanogenerators field for distributed energy, self-powered sensors, and large-scale blue energy. He coined the fields of piezotronics and piezo-phototronics for the third-generation semiconductors.
Dr. Wang has received the Global Energy Prize (2023); The Albert Einstein World Award of Science (2019); Diels-Planck lecture award (2019); ENI award in Energy Frontiers (2018); The James C. McGroddy Prize in New Materials from American Physical Society (2014); and MRS Medal from Materials Research Soci. (2011). Dr. Wang was elected as Fellow of the US National Academy of Inventors, Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Member of European Academy of Sciences, Member of European Academy of Engineering, Foreign Member of Korea Academy of Science and Technology; Academician of Academia of Sinica, and International Fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering. Dr. Wang was Founding Editor of an international journal nano energy.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Contact-Electrification of Matter
Authors: Zhong Lin Wang
Series Title: Springer Series in Surface Sciences
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2025
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-88503-7Due: 06 June 2025
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-88506-8Due: 06 June 2026
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-88504-4Due: 06 June 2025
Series ISSN: 0931-5195
Series E-ISSN: 2198-4743
Edition Number: 1