Tribocharge: a multi-scale approach to an enduring problem in physics

Project Information

Tribocharge

Grant agreement ID: 949120

DOI

10.3030/949120

Project closed

EC signature date 18 August 2020

Start date 1 January 2021

End date 31 December 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 493 623,00

EU contribution

€ 1 493 623,00

Coordinated by

INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AUSTRIA
Austria

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (10)

No Time for Surface Charge: How Bulk Conductivity Hides Charge Patterns from Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy in Contact-Electrified Surfaces

Author(s): Felix Pertl, Isaac C. D. Lenton, Tobias Cramer, Scott Waitukaitis
Published in: Physical Review Letters, Issue 135, 2025, ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/lcsm-xxty

Using Optical Tweezers to Simultaneously Trap, Charge, and Measure the Charge of a Microparticle in Air

Author(s): Andrea Stoellner, Isaac C. D. Lenton, Artem G. Volosniev, James Millen, Renjiro Shibuya, Hisao Ishii, Dmytro Rak, Zhanybek Alpichshev, Grégory David, Ruth Signorell, Caroline Muller, Scott Waitukaitis
Published in: Physical Review Letters, Issue 135, 2025, ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/5xd9-4tjj

A Duality Between Surface Charge and Work Function in Scanning Kelvin Probe Microscopy

Author(s): Isaac C.D. Lenton, Felix Pertl, Lubuna Shafeek, Scott R. Waitukaitis
Published in: Advanced Materials Interfaces, Issue 12, 2025, ISSN 2196-7350
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/admi.202500521

Beyond the blur: Using experimentally determined point spread functions to improve scanning Kelvin probe imaging

Author(s): Isaac C. D. Lenton, Felix Pertl, Lubuna Shafeek, Scott R. Waitukaitis
Published in: Journal of Applied Physics, Issue 136, 2025, ISSN 0021-8979
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/5.0215151

Accurate determination of the shapes of granular charge distributions

Author(s): Nicolás Mujica; Scott Waitukaitis
Published in: Physical Review E, 2023, ISSN 2470-0053
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physreve.107.034901

Quantifying nanoscale charge density features of contact-charged surfaces with an FEM/KPFM-hybrid approach

Author(s): Felix Pertl; Juan Carlos Sobarzo; Lubuna Shafeek; Tobias Cramer; Scott Waitukaitis
Published in: Physical Review Materials, 2022, ISSN 2475-9953
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2209.01889

Single-collision statistics reveal a global mechanism driven by sample history for contact electrification in granular media

Author(s): Galien Grosjean; Scott Waitukaitis
Published in: Physical Review Letters, 2023, ISSN 1079-7114
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2211.02488

Multiple charge carrier species as a possible cause for triboelectric cycles

Author(s): Juan Carlos Sobarzo, Scott Waitukaitis
Published in: Physical Review E, Issue 109, 2024, ISSN 2470-0045
Publisher: American Physical Society (APS)
DOI: 10.1103/physreve.109.l032108

Asymmetries in triboelectric charging: Generalizing mosaic models to different-material samples and sliding contacts

Author(s): Galien Grosjean; Scott Waitukaitis
Published in: Physical Review Materials, 2023, ISSN 2475-9953
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevmaterials.7.065601

Spontaneous ordering of identical materials into a triboelectric series

Author(s): Juan Carlos Sobarzo, Felix Pertl, Daniel M. Balazs, Tommaso Costanzo, Markus Sauer, Annette Foelske, Markus Ostermann, Christian M. Pichler, Yongkang Wang, Yuki Nagata, Mischa Bonn, Scott Waitukaitis
Published in: Nature, Issue 638, 2025, Page(s) 664-669, ISSN 0028-0836
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-08530-6

Thesis and dissertations (1)

Tribocharging of identical insulators: triboelectric series, triboelectric cycles and surface charges

Author(s): Juan Carlos Sobarzo
Published in: 2025
Publisher: Institute of Science and Technology Austria