US Patent Issued to THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG on Nov. 4 for "Switchable power generation in triboelectric nanogenerators" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,559, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG (Hong Kong).

"Switchable power generation in triboelectric nanogenerators" was invented by Dongmyeong Shin (West Kowloon, China), Jiaming Zhou (Hong Kong), Eunjong Kim (Hong Kong), Xiaoting Ma (Hong Kong) and Jingyi Gao (Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switchable triboelectric nanogenerator (s-TENG) which obtains energy by utilizing the electrostatic potential between water droplets and frictional surfaces. The s-TENG device includes an ITO film substrate as an electrode, a SU-8 mold grid located on the ITO film substrate and forming an array of air gaps as ...