2012/01/01 by V. S. Bystrov, E. Paramonova, Ekaterina Paramonova +9 · 1 citation
Chemistry · Immunology and Microbiology · Materials Science · #Antimicrobial Peptides and Activities #Composite material #Dielectric #Ferroelectricity #Materials science #Nanoscopic scale #Nanotechnology #Optoelectronics #Piezoelectricity #Polydiacetylene-based materials and applications #Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials
paper · doi:10.1080/00150193.2012.741923
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Ferroelectricity and piezoelectricity are two of the common ferroelectric material properties, which have widespread observations in many biological systems, and these are referred to as biopiezoelectricity and bioferroelectricity. This paper presents a short overview of the main issues of piezoelectricity and ferroelectricity, their manifestation in organic, biological, and molecular systems. As a showcase of novel biopiezomaterials, the investigation of diphenylalanine (FF) peptide nanotubes (PNTs) is described by computational molecular modeling, as well by experimental AFM/PFM measurements. FF PNTs present a unique class of self-assembled functional biomaterials, owing to their wide range of useful properties, including nanostructural piezoelectric and ferroelectric properties.