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Piezo-, Pyro-, and Ferroelectricity in Biological Materials

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Piezoelectric Materials: Advances in Science, Technology and Applications

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The physical properties of all the materials are well known to be determined by their symmetry. The lower the symmetry, the richer the palette of material physical properties. On the other hand, the lower is the symmetry of a system, the more ordered it is. Certainly, living organic materials are highly ordered, and one may expect properties characteristic for low-symmetry materials, such as, for example, piezoelectric and pyroelectric effects. People began to be interested in this problem very long ago. Pasteur was probably the first to suggest over 100 years ago that biological systems have chiralic dissymmetric properties and that these properties are important for the functioning of the biological systems. Much later, researchers began to study piezolectric, pyroelectric, and ferroelectric properties of biological materials.

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  1. Research Institute for Ceramics Technology, National Research Council, Faenza, Italy

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  2. Institute of Atomic Physics, Bucharest, Romania

    Maria Dinescu

  3. The Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania, USA

    Kenji Uchino

  4. Department of Physics, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

    Michael Sayer

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Lemanov, V.V. (2000). Piezo-, Pyro-, and Ferroelectricity in Biological Materials. In: Galassi, C., Dinescu, M., Uchino, K., Sayer, M. (eds) Piezoelectric Materials: Advances in Science, Technology and Applications. NATO Science Series, vol 76. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4094-2_1

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