{"604453":{"#nid":"604453","#data":{"type":"news","title":"New Insights Could Pave The Way For Self-Powered Low Energy Devices","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMost people have felt that sting from grabbing a doorknob after walking across a carpet or seen how a balloon will stick to a fuzzy surface after a few moments of vigorous rubbing.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhile the effects of static electricity have been fascinating casual observers and scientists for millennia, certain aspects of how the electricity is generated and stored on surfaces have remained a mystery.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ENow, researchers have discovered more details about the way certain materials hold a charge even after two surfaces separate, information that could help improve devices that leverage such energy as a power source.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We\u0026rsquo;ve known that energy generated in contact electrification is readily retained by the material as electrostatic charges for hours at room temperature,\u0026rdquo; said Zhong Lin Wang, Regents\u0026#39; Professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. \u0026ldquo;Our research showed that there\u0026rsquo;s a potential barrier at the surface that prevents the charges generated from flowing back to the solid where they were from or escaping from the surface after the contacting.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn their research, which was reported in March in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EAdvanced Materials\u003C\/em\u003E, the researchers found that electron transfer is the dominant process for contact electrification between two inorganic solids and explains some of the characteristics already observed about static electricity.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.rh.gatech.edu\/news\/602882\/new-insights-could-pave-way-self-powered-low-energy-devices\u0022\u003ERead the entire article here.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Zhong Lin Wang: Information that could help improve devices that leverage such energy as a power source"}],"uid":"28159","created_gmt":"2018-03-29 16:38:46","changed_gmt":"2018-03-29 16:46:12","author":"Kelly Smith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2018-03-29T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2018-03-29T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"604457":{"id":"604457","type":"image","title":"Low-energy self-powered devices 2","body":null,"created":"1522341935","gmt_created":"2018-03-29 16:45:35","changed":"1522341935","gmt_changed":"2018-03-29 16:45:35","alt":"","file":{"fid":"230417","name":"Solar charge materials.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Solar%20charge%20materials_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Solar%20charge%20materials_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":633943,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Solar%20charge%20materials_0.jpg?itok=cGdPxwkL"}}},"media_ids":["604457"],"groups":[{"id":"217141","name":"Georgia Tech Materials Institute"},{"id":"372221","name":"Renewable Bioproducts Institute (RBI)"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39531","name":"Energy and Sustainable Infrastructure"},{"id":"39471","name":"Materials"},{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"},{"id":"39491","name":"Renewable Bioproducts"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003Ejosh.brown@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["josh.brown@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}