DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201103011. Nanoscale Ferroelectricity in Crystalline γ‐Glycine

Nanoscale Ferroelectricity in Crystalline γ‐Glycine

10.1002/adfm.201103011

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Advanced Functional Materials (311)

Abstract

AbstractFerroelectrics are multifunctional materials that reversibly change their polarization under an electric field. Recently, the search for new ferroelectrics has focused on organic and bio‐organic materials, where polarization switching is used to record/retrieve information in the form of ferroelectric domains. This progress has opened a new avenue for data storage, molecular recognition, and new self‐assembly routes. Crystalline glycine is the simplest amino acid and is widely used by living organisms to build proteins. Here, it is reported for the first time that γ‐glycine, which has been known to be piezoelectric since 1954, is also a ferroelectric, as evidenced by local electromechanical measurements and by the existence of as‐grown and switchable ferroelectric domains in microcrystals grown from the solution. The experimental results are rationalized by molecular simulations that establish that the polarization vector in γ‐glycine can be switched on the nanoscale level, opening a pathway to novel classes of bioelectronic logic and memory devices.

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Heredia, A., Meunier, V., Bdikin, I. K., Gracio, J., Balke, N., Jesse, S., Tselev, A., Agarwal, P. K., Sumpter, B. G., Kalinin, S. V., & Kholkin, A. L. (2012). Nanoscale Ferroelectricity in Crystalline Î³âGlycine. Advanced Functional Materials, 22(14), 2996â3003. Portico.

Authors 11

Alejandro Heredia (first)
Vincent Meunier (additional)
Igor K. Bdikin (additional)
José Gracio (additional)
Nina Balke (additional)
Stephen Jesse (additional)
Alexander Tselev (additional)
Pratul K. Agarwal (additional)
Bobby G. Sumpter (additional)
Sergei V. Kalinin (additional)
Andrei L. Kholkin (additional)

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Dates

Type	When
Created	13 years, 4 months ago (April 18, 2012, 9:40 a.m.)
Deposited	1 year, 10 months ago (Oct. 11, 2023, 12:04 a.m.)
Indexed	2 days, 14 hours ago (Aug. 27, 2025, 11:36 a.m.)
Issued	13 years, 4 months ago (April 18, 2012)
Published	13 years, 4 months ago (April 18, 2012)
Published Online	13 years, 4 months ago (April 18, 2012)
Published Print	13 years, 1 month ago (July 24, 2012)

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BibTeX

@article{Heredia_2012, title={Nanoscale Ferroelectricity in Crystalline γ‐Glycine}, volume={22}, ISSN={1616-3028}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201103011}, DOI={10.1002/adfm.201103011}, number={14}, journal={Advanced Functional Materials}, publisher={Wiley}, author={Heredia, Alejandro and Meunier, Vincent and Bdikin, Igor K. and Gracio, José and Balke, Nina and Jesse, Stephen and Tselev, Alexander and Agarwal, Pratul K. and Sumpter, Bobby G. and Kalinin, Sergei V. and Kholkin, Andrei L.}, year={2012}, month=apr, pages={2996–3003} }

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