do you need to charge the smartphone? touch it!

exploiting the triboelectric effect it's possible to harvest energy by touching the screen.

new researches at the nanoscale give hope to solve the problem

Electrostatic Motor

ELECTROSTATIC MOTOR (a follow up lesson)

an electrostatic motor studied in physics: what is it used for?

• it's useless, forget it! 
• never mind, the important thing is to understand physics! 
• it is important to understand if it will be useful

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don't believe it ?

in biology many systems work as electrostatic micromotors
as examples, some scientific publications: from the earliest to the most recent

It is not over !

bioinspired nanotechnology can allow the realization of devices the use of which is not predictable but still very promising.
here, some examples of nano and micro-motors and a paper for detail on the topic.

fiction or reality?