teng triboelectric nano generators designs

[@Wassermelonenbaum]

I wanna see a shoe with teng integration😅 Thanks for showing off your work!!

[@MatthewRodgers]

You can make one yourself easy peasy. Just like those light up sneakers but now they don't run out of batteries! HVAC tape, scotch packaging tape, two LEDs.

[@mikebond6328]

There’s lots of videos on it.

[@lockeisback]

build layers of this into anything that has long continuous vibrations like a box fan or washing machine. i like the idea of a trickle charger for your phone or something but i dont think normal human behavior shakes like that enough to work, but if you bolted a good plate of this to the side of your cars engine it could generate slow but constant power for the battery or something.

[@Calandron1]

Honestly these are super rad! I'm a huge fan. Honestly if you made a scripted, high production version of this video, I could see it breaking 100k views. I have never seen anything like this. And you've already got the demos built. Go into the physics, refine the device a little bit to show how the varibles work, and people would watch. 100%. Hope you keep making vids man, this is great. 1+ sub from me man

[@MatthewRodgers]

Have you tried making one yet yourself? I only know of a handful of people in the world who are working on TENGs. You could be one of them...

[@noahpaulette1490]

Very fascinating.

[@asitrusbogulis9603]

i could put it under my table and when i rage i generate electricity

[@MatthewRodgers]

Yup that would work...

[@thespacecowboy420]

if they can be made waterproof and that cheaply I can imagine strings of them in the breeze

[@MatthewRodgers]

I did try that too with like 3 foot long strips just hanging. It does work.

[@milesvesh]

thanks for sharing - any tips on thinking about what is/isn’t allowed to touch? i replicated one of the simple “eye” shaped tap ones last night but couldn’t get a measurable voltage and am now trying to figure out if it was my materials or my layering letting things touch with the tape that shouldn’t.

[@MatthewRodgers]

What materials did you use? Maybe post a video and I'll watch to tell you what's wrong? You don't want any aluminum from one side to touch the aluminum of the other side, like a capacitor. You also want a lot of surface area.

[@milesvesh]

@@MatthewRodgers heya! tried a few combinations from other videos like printer paper + aluminum tape + clear tape and i also tried teflon tape and a few other paper textures. i actually just got a humidity detector though and the humidity where i am right now is over 70 so that might be why it's been too hard to get a charge. going to try a big electrophorus version later and then try and scale down. i want to make sure i understand all the principles first and can replicate other peoples work so i can eventually build some of my own! thanks for the response and the offer! i will try a few more times with different bigger designs before i bother you to watch a video!

[@MatthewRodgers]

@@milesvesh I haven't ever had problems with humidity. I have a sensor as well I'm in Virginia it gets to like 70 percent sometimes. More likely you need more folds, or a rectifier. If you only attach the two leads with a voltmeter then you will get nothing cause it is AC. If you attach an LED it will work though, or two LEDs in both directions. Try it with an LED first in the dark with a small TENG. Once you get that working you will understand the concept.

[@quantumenergysolutions9128]

Great idea, imagine it inside sneakers?

[@PraxZimmerman]

Could probably be scaled up to a DDR mat. Charge your phone while dancing.

[@MatthewRodgers]

Make it!!! Take your idea to the next level and sell it to dance places! I'm actually going to an open mic tonight maybe I'll make one and people can dance on it.

[@mikebond6328]

That’s an awesome idea!

[@jonbigman9723]

What happens if you use aluminum and copper foils?

[@MatthewRodgers]

Aluminum is positive on the triboelectic scale and copper is slightly negative. The scotch packaging tape is much more negative than copper. You need two materials at extreme differences on the scale. Using copper foil and scotch packaging tape would not work. Using only aluminum and copper tape would work, but at much less efficiency.

[@jonbigman9723]

@@MatthewRodgers Hmmm... My thoughts were on the potential difference of the two metals and when they are moved in the same way it should help get you more current but less voltage which is super high already. Remember this is acting like a variable capacitor and to an extent a variable proximity generator that varies the capacitance between the two metal electrodes. You can also get a battery like effect between the two plates of the capacitor via the electronegativity of the two metals. Each metal has an electric potential field around each other as well and it is the field of it's body. Varying both the mass and the surface area of each metal body has effects on the other plate as the distance changes between the two plates the capacitance changes as well. So you can think of it like this: The electronegativity of the plates sets up the current potential as you vary the capacitance between the two plates. This is what gives you the AC generation. Aluminum= 1.61 Copper=1.9 It should make a difference.....

[@MatthewRodgers]

@@jonbigman9723 yeah I don't understand where you are going. Maybe you make one and show me? Haz good week dude it's getting humid out in Virginia lately.

[@mikebond6328]

Not trying to be mean, It sounds like you’re saying “turbo electric.” I think it’s “try bow” electric. I was wondering why it was called that because you rub two pieces together but tri means three. So I asked google and it said that tribo is Greek for “to rub.”

[@MatthewRodgers]

Yeah it's triboelectic which is in the title of the video... My voice doesn't sound good on camera if I'm just talking I don't enunciate enough. In my music my voice sounds ok to me though... Probably how I filter it.