Researchers demonstrate ferroelectricity in glycine using piezoresponse force microscopy
A team of multi-institutional researchers led by Andrei Kholkin from the University of Aveiro has for the first time experimentally demonstrated the existence of ferroelectricity in glycine, a basic amino acid, using piezoresponse force microscopy developed at the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
EU funding has helped realise a scientific first; using a technique known as non-contact atomic force microscopy, scientists have successfully been able to differentiate the chemical bonds in individual molecules.