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Ferroelectricity

Ferroelectric and piezoelectric properties of protein amino acids and their compounds

V. V. Lemanov

Ioffe Institute, St. Petersburg

Abstract: Protein amino acids and some of their compounds have been studied. A number of glycine-based compounds exhibit ferroelectric properties. These properties have not been observed in chiral amino acids, but they have been revealed in some of their symmetric isomers.

Received: 14.03.2012

 English version: Physics of the Solid State, 2012, 54:9, 1841–1842

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