Adventitious carbon breaks symmetry in oxide contact electrification
G.M. Grosjean, M. Ostermann, M. Sauer, M. Hahn, C.M. Pichler, F. Fahrnberger, F. Pertl, D. Balazs, M.M. Link, S.H. Kim, D.L. Schrader, A. Blanco, F. Gracia, N. Mujica, S.R. Waitukaitis, Nature 651 (2026) 626–631.

Experimental probing of nanoscale charge features and surface morphology changes during tribocharging
F. Pertl, Experimental Probing of Nanoscale Charge Features and Surface Morphology Changes during Tribocharging, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2026.

Rolling at right angles: Magnetic anisotropy enables dual-anisotropic active matter
E. Fitzgerald, C. Clavaud, D. Das, I.C. Lenton, S.R. Waitukaitis, Physical Review E 112 (2025).

A duality between surface charge and work function in scanning Kelvin probe microscopy
I.C. Lenton, F. Pertl, L.B. Shafeek, S.R. Waitukaitis, Advanced Materials Interfaces 12 (2025).

No Time for Surface Charge: How Bulk Conductivity Hides Charge Patterns from Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy in Contact-Electrified Surfaces
F. Pertl, (2025).

Using optical tweezers to simultaneously trap, charge, and measure the charge of a microparticle in air
A. Stöllner, I.C. Lenton, A. Volosniev, J. Millen, R. Shibuya, H. Ishii, D. Rak, Z. Alpichshev, G. David, R. Signorell, C.J. Muller, S.R. Waitukaitis, Physical Review Letters 135 (2025).

Tribocharging of identical insulators: Triboelectric series, triboelectric cycles and surface charges
J.C.A. Sobarzo Ponce, Tribocharging of Identical Insulators: Triboelectric Series, Triboelectric Cycles and Surface Charges, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2025.

Spontaneous ordering of identical materials into a triboelectric series
J.C.A. Sobarzo Ponce, F. Pertl, D. Balazs, T. Costanzo, M. Sauer, A. Foelske, M. Ostermann, C.M. Pichler, Y. Wang, Y. Nagata, M. Bonn, S.R. Waitukaitis, Nature 638 (2025).

No time for surface charge: How bulk conductivity hides charge patterns from Kelvin probe force microscopy in contact-electrified surfaces
F. Pertl, I.C. Lenton, T. Cramer, S.R. Waitukaitis, Physical Review Letters 135 (2025).

Beyond the blur: Using experimentally determined point spread functions to improve scanning Kelvin probe imaging
I.C. Lenton, F. Pertl, L.B. Shafeek, S.R. Waitukaitis, Journal of Applied Physics 136 (2024).

Single-collision statistics reveal a global mechanism driven by sample history for contact electrification in granular media
G.M. Grosjean, S.R. Waitukaitis, Physical Review Letters 130 (2023).

Accurate determination of the shapes of granular charge distributions
N. Mujica, S.R. Waitukaitis, Physical Review E 107 (2023).

Asymmetries in triboelectric charging: Generalizing mosaic models to different-material samples and sliding contacts
G.M. Grosjean, S.R. Waitukaitis, Physical Review Materials 7 (2023).

Measuring spontaneous charging of single aerosol particles
A. Stöllner, I.C. Lenton, C.J. Muller, S.R. Waitukaitis, in:, EGU General Assembly 2023, European Geosciences Union, 2023.

Quantifying nanoscale charge density features of contact-charged surfaces with an FEM/KPFM-hybrid approach
F. Pertl, J.C.A. Sobarzo Ponce, L.B. Shafeek, T. Cramer, S.R. Waitukaitis, Physical Review Materials 6 (2022).