Raul defended his MSc project Estudio de Nanocomposites para Generación de Energía Triboeléctrica with distinction.
Congratulations, Raúl!
Author: Bernd
Bernd Wicklein was selected for a Ramon y Cajal contract in July 2022
Bernd will become a Ramon y Cajal researcher in a couple of months.
Omar Alkolaibi defended his Final Year Project in July 2022
Omar defended his Final Year Project Nanogeneradores triboeléctricos basados en biopolimeros porosos.
Congratulations, Omar!
Bernd Wicklein is a BrainPool Fellow
Bernd received a BrainPool fellowship from the National Research Foundation of Korea for a research stay at the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, where he will investigate interdigitated 3D electrodes for triboelectric nanogenerators.
Jaime Gonzalez graduated in Chemical Engineering in June 2022
Jaime defended his final year project Estudio de nanocomposites basados en celulosas y nanocarbones como nanogeneradores with distinction.
Congratulations, Jaime!
Bernd Wicklein at the International online Congress on Nanogenerators and piezotronics June 2022.
Bernd delivered a presentation on Eco-friendly, biomass nanogenerators based on polysaccharide nanocomposites at the NGPT2022 congress
First wind harvesting in May 2022
Omar harvested for the first time electricity from wind induced vibrations and repeated contact electrification between alginate and cellulose. 8.7 V! Check out the video.
David Jimenez and Bernd Wicklein at the National Ceramics and Glass Congress May 2022.
Bernd gave a talk entitled Hybrid tribo/piezoelectric nanogenerators based on alginate and barium titanate.
David presented a poster at the LVIII Congreso Nacional de la Sociedad Española de Cerámica y Vidrio entitled Eco-friendly chitosan films with dielectric solids for the design of TENGs.
First team meeting
First Foamify team meeting with cake and coffee 😉 discussing interesting new results.
Mini-shaker in operation
The mini-shaker producing triboelectricity.