Even its name is somewhat misleading, as this “electricity” is not static, but is the result of charge transfer from one ...

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The work could be a step toward understanding the effects behind the phenomenon of static electricity, in which electric charge accumulates on materials after they are rubbed or touched together.

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Static electricity, or contact electrification, is influenced by the contact history of materials, which controls how they exchange charge. This discovery helps ...

(Courtesy: ISTA) Physicists in Austria have shown that the static electricity acquired by identical material samples can evolve differently over time, based on each samples’ history of contact with ...