Journal
ACS NANO
Volume 4, Issue 2, Pages 610-614Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/nn901327v
Keywords
peptides; nanotubes; piezoelectricity; piezoresponse force microscopy; MEMS
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We show anomalously strong shear piezoelectric activity in self-assembled diphenylalanine peptide nanotubes (PNTs), indicating electric polarization directed along the tube axis. Comparison with well-known piezoelectric LiNbO3 and lateral signal calibration yields sufficiently high effective piezoelectric coefficient values of at least 60 pm/V (shear response for tubes of approximate to 200 nm in diameter). PNTs demonstrate linear deformation without irreversible degradation in a broad range of driving voltages. The results open up a wide avenue for developing new generations of green piezoelectric materials and piezonanodevices based on bioactive tubular nanostructures potentially compatible with human tissue.
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