Week 6

psbhatia 2015-2016, 2015-2016 Triboelectric Energy Harvesting

By week six, we receive all of the necessary materials to create a working test model of our concept. We soldered wired to copper electrodes, then applied kapton on one electrode and Biaxially Oriented Polypropyleneon the other surface. Then we connected the wiring from the electrodes to a voltmeter and rubbed the surfaces of the electrodes together to create friction. we were able to verify that electricity can be created from friction of these materials, however the change in voltage was very small and out next step is to determine how to increase the detected voltage when these materials are rubbed tufter.