Laser-printed PVC sheet enables triboelectric touch input (IMAGE)

Shibaura Institute of Technology

Laser-printed PVC sheet enables triboelectric touch input

Caption

A conventional laser printer forms a thin toner film on a PVC sheet, creating patterned exposed regions that control triboelectric signal generation during finger sliding. The toner-printed sheet showed no significant waveform degradation after 1,000 sliding cycles.

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Hiroki Shigemune from SIT, Japan Source Link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nanoen.2026.112165

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