This project aims to use water as another triboelectric layer to create a frictionless triboelectric generator.
As water slides over another solid triboelectric layer, electricity can be generated. Recently, we created a close-ended cylinder made of Teflon filled with water, and flipping the cylinder caused the water inside the cylinder to rub against the inner wall of the Teflon tube. This project requires the design of a mechanism where the external rotating shaft will cause the Teflon tube to flip clockwise and anticlockwise. This motion eliminates the need for commutation as the Teflon tube does not make a full rotation as the external rotating shaft. Hence, the overall prototype will be similar to an electromagnetic motor where an external rotating shaft will produce electricity, but this project uses a triboelectric concept and hence, a super light weight electrical motor.
Undergraduate
The outcome is to produce an electric motor that can produce high voltage.
This project has been preallocated to
cugn234@aucklanduni.ac.nz
sshe458@aucklanduni.ac.nz
Mechatronics Research (405.822, Lab)