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  text: 'When two insulating, neutral materials are contacted and separated, they
    exchange electrical charge1. Experiments have long suggested that this ‘contact
    electrification’ is transitive, with different materials ordering into ‘triboelectric
    series’ based on the sign of charge acquired2. At the same time, the effect is
    plagued by unpredictability, preventing consensus on the mechanism and casting
    doubt on the rhyme and reason that series imply3. Here we expose an unanticipated
    connection between the unpredictability and order in contact electrification:
    nominally identical materials initially exchange charge randomly and intransitively,
    but—over repeated experiments—order into triboelectric series. We find that this
    evolution is driven by the act of contact itself—samples with more contacts in
    their history charge negatively to ones with fewer contacts. Capturing this ‘contact
    bias’ in a minimal model, we recreate both the initial randomness and ultimate
    order in numerical simulations and use it experimentally to force the appearance
    of a triboelectric series of our choosing. With a set of surface-sensitive techniques
    to search for the underlying alterations contact creates, we only find evidence
    of nanoscale morphological changes, pointing to a mechanism strongly coupled with
    mechanics. Our results highlight the centrality of contact history in contact
    electrification and suggest that focusing on the unpredictability that has long
    plagued the effect may hold the key to understanding it.'
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acknowledgement: This project has received financing from the European Research Council
  grant agreement no. 949120 under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and
  innovation programme. The Analytical Instrumentation Center of the TU Wien acknowledges
  support by the FFG project ‘ELSA’ under grant no. 884672. C.M.P. and M.O. acknowledge
  the state of Lower Austria and the European Regional Development Fund under grant
  no. WST3-F-542638/004-2021. This research was supported by the Scientific Service
  Units of the Institute of Science and Technology Austria through resources provided
  by the Miba Machine Shop, Nanofabrication Facility, Scientific Computing facility,
  Electron Microscopy Facility and Lab Support Facility. We thank J. Garcia-Suarez
  and G. Anciaux for the suggestion to look into the roughness power spectral density.
  We thank I.-M. Strugaru for help with testing the device for Young’s modulus measurements.
  Open access funding provided by Institute of Science and Technology (IST Austria).
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  full_name: Sobarzo Ponce, Juan Carlos A
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  last_name: Sobarzo Ponce
- first_name: Felix
  full_name: Pertl, Felix
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  last_name: Costanzo
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- first_name: Markus
  full_name: Sauer, Markus
  last_name: Sauer
- first_name: Annette
  full_name: Foelske, Annette
  last_name: Foelske
- first_name: Markus
  full_name: Ostermann, Markus
  last_name: Ostermann
- first_name: Christian M.
  full_name: Pichler, Christian M.
  last_name: Pichler
- first_name: Yongkang
  full_name: Wang, Yongkang
  last_name: Wang
- first_name: Yuki
  full_name: Nagata, Yuki
  last_name: Nagata
- first_name: Mischa
  full_name: Bonn, Mischa
  last_name: Bonn
- first_name: Scott R
  full_name: Waitukaitis, Scott R
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  last_name: Waitukaitis
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  ama: Sobarzo Ponce JCA, Pertl F, Balazs D, et al. Spontaneous ordering of identical
    materials into a triboelectric series. <i>Nature</i>. 2025;638(8051). doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08530-6">10.1038/s41586-024-08530-6</a>
  apa: Sobarzo Ponce, J. C. A., Pertl, F., Balazs, D., Costanzo, T., Sauer, M., Foelske,
    A., … Waitukaitis, S. R. (2025). Spontaneous ordering of identical materials into
    a triboelectric series. <i>Nature</i>. Springer Nature. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08530-6">https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08530-6</a>
  chicago: Sobarzo Ponce, Juan Carlos A, Felix Pertl, Daniel Balazs, Tommaso Costanzo,
    Markus Sauer, Annette Foelske, Markus Ostermann, et al. “Spontaneous Ordering
    of Identical Materials into a Triboelectric Series.” <i>Nature</i>. Springer Nature,
    2025. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08530-6">https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08530-6</a>.
  ieee: J. C. A. Sobarzo Ponce <i>et al.</i>, “Spontaneous ordering of identical materials
    into a triboelectric series,” <i>Nature</i>, vol. 638, no. 8051. Springer Nature,
    2025.
  ista: Sobarzo Ponce JCA, Pertl F, Balazs D, Costanzo T, Sauer M, Foelske A, Ostermann
    M, Pichler CM, Wang Y, Nagata Y, Bonn M, Waitukaitis SR. 2025. Spontaneous ordering
    of identical materials into a triboelectric series. Nature. 638(8051), 664–669.
  mla: Sobarzo Ponce, Juan Carlos A., et al. “Spontaneous Ordering of Identical Materials
    into a Triboelectric Series.” <i>Nature</i>, vol. 638, no. 8051, 664–669, Springer
    Nature, 2025, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08530-6">10.1038/s41586-024-08530-6</a>.
  short: 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).
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  text: Tribocharging, or contact electrification, is the phenomenon in which two
    initially neutral materials exchange electric charge through contact and subsequent
    separation. While it is widely observed in everyday life and crucial to numerous
    natural processes, even the most basic aspects of tribocharging are still a mystery—what
    are the charge carriers involved and what drives their exchange? This work spans
    three separate projects that address different aspects of tribocharging. First,
    we introduce a novel strategy combining Finite Element Method (FEM) simulations
    with Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy (KPFM) to quantitatively extract surface charge
    density from surface voltage maps. Second, we present a simple theoretical model
    that allows for the existence of triboelectric cycles, under the assumption that
    multiple charge carrying species are involved. Third, we present experimental
    evidence that identical materials can spontaneously evolve into a triboelectric
    series, driven by contact history. Modeling this behavior enables the replication
    of experimental results with simulations, and even experimentally forcing the
    appearance of a pre-designed series by manipulating contact history. Together,
    the findings from these projects challenge traditional views on tribocharging,
    provide new tools for probing it, and open up new avenues of research—all with
    the hopes of bringing us closer to understanding this puzzling phenomenon.
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acknowledgement: "The project in Chapter 2 has received funding from the European
  Research Council (ERC) under\r\nthe European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation
  programme (Grant Agreement\r\nNo. 949120).\r\nThe project in Chapter 3 has received
  funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under\r\nthe European Union’s Horizon
  2020 research and innovation programme (Grant Agreement\r\nNo. 949120).\r\nThe project
  in Chapter 4 has received financing from the European Research Council grant\r\nagreement
  No. 949120 under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation\r\nprogramme.
  The Analytical Instrumentation Center of the TU Wien acknowledges support by\r\nthe
  FFG project ‘ELSA’ under grant no. 884672. C.M.P. and M.O. acknowledge the state\r\nof
  Lower Austria and the European Regional Development Fund under grant no. WST3-F542638/004-2021.\r\n"
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  apa: 'Sobarzo Ponce, J. C. A. (2025). <i>Tribocharging of identical insulators :
    Triboelectric series, triboelectric cycles and surface charges</i>. Institute
    of Science and Technology Austria. <a href="https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-20203">https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-20203</a>'
  chicago: 'Sobarzo Ponce, Juan Carlos A. “Tribocharging of Identical Insulators :
    Triboelectric Series, Triboelectric Cycles and Surface Charges.” Institute of
    Science and Technology Austria, 2025. <a href="https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-20203">https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-20203</a>.'
  ieee: 'J. C. A. Sobarzo Ponce, “Tribocharging of identical insulators : Triboelectric
    series, triboelectric cycles and surface charges,” Institute of Science and Technology
    Austria, 2025.'
  ista: 'Sobarzo Ponce JCA. 2025. Tribocharging of identical insulators : Triboelectric
    series, triboelectric cycles and surface charges. Institute of Science and Technology
    Austria.'
  mla: 'Sobarzo Ponce, Juan Carlos A. <i>Tribocharging of Identical Insulators : Triboelectric
    Series, Triboelectric Cycles and Surface Charges</i>. Institute of Science and
    Technology Austria, 2025, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.15479/AT-ISTA-20203">10.15479/AT-ISTA-20203</a>.'
  short: 'J.C.A. Sobarzo Ponce, Tribocharging of Identical Insulators : Triboelectric
    Series, Triboelectric Cycles and Surface Charges, Institute of Science and Technology
    Austria, 2025.'
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  text: The tendency of materials to order in triboelectric series has prompted suggestions
    that contact electrification might have a single, unified underlying description.
    However, the possibility of “triboelectric cycles,” i.e., series that loop back
    onto themselves, is seemingly at odds with such a coherent description. In this
    work, we propose that if multiple charge carrying species are at play, both triboelectric
    series and cycles are possible. We show how series arise naturally if only a single
    charge carrier species is involved and if the driving mechanism is approach toward
    thermodynamic equilibrium, and simultaneously, that cycles are forbidden under
    such conditions. Suspecting multiple carriers might relax the situation, we affirm
    this is the case by explicit construction of a cycle involving two carriers, and
    then extend this to show how more complex cycles emerge. Our work highlights the
    importance of series and cycles towards determining the underlying mechanism(s)
    and carrier(s) in contact electrification.
article_number: L032108
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author:
- first_name: Juan Carlos A
  full_name: Sobarzo Ponce, Juan Carlos A
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  last_name: Sobarzo Ponce
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  ama: Sobarzo Ponce JCA, Waitukaitis SR. Multiple charge carrier species as a possible
    cause for triboelectric cycles. <i>Physical Review E</i>. 2024;109(3). doi:<a
    href="https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.109.L032108">10.1103/PhysRevE.109.L032108</a>
  apa: Sobarzo Ponce, J. C. A., &#38; Waitukaitis, S. R. (2024). Multiple charge carrier
    species as a possible cause for triboelectric cycles. <i>Physical Review E</i>.
    American Physical Society. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.109.L032108">https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.109.L032108</a>
  chicago: Sobarzo Ponce, Juan Carlos A, and Scott R Waitukaitis. “Multiple Charge
    Carrier Species as a Possible Cause for Triboelectric Cycles.” <i>Physical Review
    E</i>. American Physical Society, 2024. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.109.L032108">https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.109.L032108</a>.
  ieee: J. C. A. Sobarzo Ponce and S. R. Waitukaitis, “Multiple charge carrier species
    as a possible cause for triboelectric cycles,” <i>Physical Review E</i>, vol.
    109, no. 3. American Physical Society, 2024.
  ista: Sobarzo Ponce JCA, Waitukaitis SR. 2024. Multiple charge carrier species as
    a possible cause for triboelectric cycles. Physical Review E. 109(3), L032108.
  mla: Sobarzo Ponce, Juan Carlos A., and Scott R. Waitukaitis. “Multiple Charge Carrier
    Species as a Possible Cause for Triboelectric Cycles.” <i>Physical Review E</i>,
    vol. 109, no. 3, L032108, American Physical Society, 2024, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.109.L032108">10.1103/PhysRevE.109.L032108</a>.
  short: J.C.A. Sobarzo Ponce, S.R. Waitukaitis, Physical Review E 109 (2024).
corr_author: '1'
date_created: 2024-04-14T22:01:03Z
date_published: 2024-03-29T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2026-04-07T11:50:54Z
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doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.109.L032108
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  text: Kelvin probe force microscopy (KPFM) is a powerful tool for studying contact
    electrification (CE) at the nanoscale, but converting KPFM voltage maps to charge
    density maps is nontrivial due to long-range forces and complex system geometry.
    Here we present a strategy using finite-element method (FEM) simulations to determine
    the Green's function of the KPFM probe/insulator/ground system, which allows us
    to quantitatively extract surface charge. Testing our approach with synthetic
    data, we find that accounting for the atomic force microscope (AFM) tip, cone,
    and cantilever is necessary to recover a known input and that existing methods
    lead to gross miscalculation or even the incorrect sign of the underlying charge.
    Applying it to experimental data, we demonstrate its capacity to extract realistic
    surface charge densities and fine details from contact-charged surfaces. Our method
    gives a straightforward recipe to convert qualitative KPFM voltage data into quantitative
    charge data over a range of experimental conditions, enabling quantitative CE
    at the nanoscale.
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acknowledgement: "This project has received funding from the European Research Council
  (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme
  (Grant Agreement\r\nNo. 949120). This research was supported by the Scientific Service
  Units of the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) through resources
  provided by the Miba Machine\r\nShop, the Nanofabrication Facility, and the Scientific
  Computing Facility. We thank F. Stumpf from Park Systems for useful discussions
  and support with scanning probe microscopy.\r\nF.P. and J.C.S. contributed equally
  to this work."
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  ama: Pertl F, Sobarzo Ponce JCA, Shafeek LB, Cramer T, Waitukaitis SR. Quantifying
    nanoscale charge density features of contact-charged surfaces with an FEM/KPFM-hybrid
    approach. <i>Physical Review Materials</i>. 2022;6(12). doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.6.125605">10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.6.125605</a>
  apa: Pertl, F., Sobarzo Ponce, J. C. A., Shafeek, L. B., Cramer, T., &#38; Waitukaitis,
    S. R. (2022). Quantifying nanoscale charge density features of contact-charged
    surfaces with an FEM/KPFM-hybrid approach. <i>Physical Review Materials</i>. American
    Physical Society. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.6.125605">https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.6.125605</a>
  chicago: Pertl, Felix, Juan Carlos A Sobarzo Ponce, Lubuna B Shafeek, Tobias Cramer,
    and Scott R Waitukaitis. “Quantifying Nanoscale Charge Density Features of Contact-Charged
    Surfaces with an FEM/KPFM-Hybrid Approach.” <i>Physical Review Materials</i>.
    American Physical Society, 2022. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.6.125605">https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.6.125605</a>.
  ieee: F. Pertl, J. C. A. Sobarzo Ponce, L. B. Shafeek, T. Cramer, and S. R. Waitukaitis,
    “Quantifying nanoscale charge density features of contact-charged surfaces with
    an FEM/KPFM-hybrid approach,” <i>Physical Review Materials</i>, vol. 6, no. 12.
    American Physical Society, 2022.
  ista: Pertl F, Sobarzo Ponce JCA, Shafeek LB, Cramer T, Waitukaitis SR. 2022. Quantifying
    nanoscale charge density features of contact-charged surfaces with an FEM/KPFM-hybrid
    approach. Physical Review Materials. 6(12), 125605.
  mla: Pertl, Felix, et al. “Quantifying Nanoscale Charge Density Features of Contact-Charged
    Surfaces with an FEM/KPFM-Hybrid Approach.” <i>Physical Review Materials</i>,
    vol. 6, no. 12, 125605, American Physical Society, 2022, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.6.125605">10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.6.125605</a>.
  short: F. Pertl, J.C.A. Sobarzo Ponce, L.B. Shafeek, T. Cramer, S.R. Waitukaitis,
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    Review Materials</i>, vol. 4, no. 8. American Physical Society, 2020.
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    Materials. 4(8), 082602.
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  short: G.M. Grosjean, S. Wald, J.C.A. Sobarzo Ponce, S.R. Waitukaitis, Physical
    Review Materials 4 (2020).
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