Crystal structures of amino acids: from bond lengths in glycine to metal complexes and high-pressure polymorphs

CH Görbitz - Crystallography Reviews, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
After the discovery of X-ray diffraction by crystals, amino acids were among the first organic
compounds to have their solid-state structures investigated. The Cambridge Structural …

Racemic amino acid piezoelectric transducer

S Guerin, J O'Donnell, EU Haq, C McKeown, C Silien… - Physical review …, 2019 - APS
Single crystal L-amino acids can exhibit technologically useful piezoelectric and nonlinear
optical properties. Here we predict, using density functional theory, the piezoelectric charge …

Growth, optical, thermal and dielectric studies of an amino acid organic nonlinear optical material: l-Alanine

ML Caroline, R Sankar, RM Indirani… - Materials Chemistry and …, 2009 - Elsevier
Good transparent bulk single crystals of L-alanine (nonlinear optical material) have been
grown successfully by slow cooling technique from aqueous solution at pH value of 2.0 …

Growth and PhysioChemical Properties of Second‐Order Nonlinear Optical L‐Threonine Single Crystals

G Ramesh Kumar, S Gokul Raj - Advances in Materials …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
The present aim of the paper is to grow and to study the various properties of L‐threonine
amino acid single crystal in various aspects. Crystal growth of L‐threonine single crystals …

Dielectric, nonlinear optical and optical limiting properties of chelated bimetallic metal-organic framework

MRS Mohan, R Pavithran, IH Joe, TK Sindhu… - Optical Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
Single crystals of the chelated bimetallic metal-organic framework (MOF) of strontium and
calcium of the ligand EDTA, with dielectric and nonlinear optical properties have been …

Synthesis and optical characterizations of l-phenylalanine lithium sulphate (LPLS) semi-organic single crystal

M Meena, BS Ebinezer, E Manikandan… - Journal of Materials …, 2023 - Springer
A slow evaporation procedure has been used to grow semi-organic single crystals of (LPLS)
l-phenylalanine (C9H11NO2) lithium sulphate (Li2SO4). Researchers examined the various …

A piezoelectric ionic cocrystal of glycine and sulfamic acid

S Guerin, S Khorasani, M Gleeson… - Crystal Growth & …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Cocrystallization of two or more molecular compounds can dramatically change the
physicochemical properties of a functional molecule without the need for chemical …

Growth and characterization of l-Tartaric acid, an NLO material

SAMB Dhas, M Suresh, G Bhagavannarayana… - Journal of crystal …, 2007 - Elsevier
Single crystals of l-Tartaric acid (C4H6O6), an organic nonlinear optical (NLO) material,
have been grown by hanging seed solution and submerged seed solution techniques at …

Flexible amino acid-based energy harvesting for structural health monitoring of water pipes

F Okosun, S Guerin, M Celikin, V Pakrashi - Cell Reports Physical Science, 2021 - cell.com
Biomolecular piezoelectric materials offer an inexpensive, non-toxic, and renewable
alternative to current commercial piezoelectrics, which rely on toxic heavy elements …

Growth and characterization of L‐alanine doped KDP crystals

KD Parikh, DJ Dave, BB Parekh… - Crystal Research and …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Potassium Dihydrogen Phosphate (KDP) is an excellent inorganic nonlinear optical
(NLO) material with different device applications. Most of amino acids possess NLO …