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Area of Science:

  • Physics
  • Materials Science

Background:

  • Contact electrification often leads to gas breakdown and charge dissipation.
  • Paschen's law typically governs this breakdown, but measuring voltage in insulators is challenging.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To experimentally verify Paschen's law in gas breakdown during insulator contact electrification.
  • To develop a method for non-destructive, in-situ measurement of gap voltage.

Main Methods:

  • Implemented an electrode-free method to capture discharge events.
  • Measured gap voltage using Coulomb force during silicone-acrylic and copper-nylon electrification in nitrogen gas.

Main Results:

  • Provided experimental evidence that Paschen curves govern nitrogen breakdown in these contact electrification scenarios.
  • Successfully captured discrete discharge events without direct voltage measurement.

Conclusions:

  • The study validates Paschen's law in contact electrification of insulators.
  • This electrode-free method can characterize gas ionization or surface properties without a power supply, benefiting material design and triboelectric device development.