Engineering of Pyroelectric Crystals Decoupled from Piezoelectricity as Illustrated by Doped α-Glycine

Review Chemistry, Multidisciplinary

Global Analysis of the Mechanical Properties of Organic Crystals

Durga Prasad Karothu et al.

Summary: This paper summarizes the mechanical properties of organic crystals over the past three decades and establishes a global mechanical property profile. Organic crystals occupy a specific region in the mechanical property-density space and can be used to predict and identify mechanically robust organic crystal materials.

ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION (2022)

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Review Chemistry, Multidisciplinary

Glycine: The Gift that Keeps on Giving

Elena Boldyreva

Summary: Despite its small size and achirality, glycine exhibits diverse behaviors across different phenomena. Research on glycine highlights the critical importance of phenomena at interfaces in areas such as crystal growth, dissolution, and physical properties.

ISRAEL JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY (2021)

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Article Chemistry, Physical

Local Piezoelectric Properties of Doped Biomolecular Crystals

Andrei Kholkin et al.

Summary: Piezoelectricity is the ability of certain crystals to generate mechanical strain proportional to an external electric field. The induction of piezoelectricity in biomolecular crystals can be achieved through stereospecific doping. The study using piezoresponse force microscopy demonstrates that doping with amino acids significantly affects the shear piezoelectric response of alpha-glycine crystals.

MATERIALS (2021)

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Article Chemistry, Multidisciplinary