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Wang R, Sui J, Wang X. Natural Piezoelectric Biomaterials: A Biocompatible and Sustainable Building Block for Biomedical Devices. ACS NANO 2022; 16:17708-17728. [PMID: 36354375 PMCID: PMC10040090 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.2c08164] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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The piezoelectric effect has been widely observed in biological systems, and its applications in biomedical field are emerging. Recent advances of wearable and implantable biomedical devices bring promise as well as requirements for the piezoelectric materials building blocks. Owing to their biocompatibility, biosafety, and environmental sustainability, natural piezoelectric biomaterials are known as a promising candidate in this emerging field, with a potential to replace conventional piezoelectric ceramics and synthetic polymers. Herein, we provide a thorough review of recent progresses of research on five major types of piezoelectric biomaterials including amino acids, peptides, proteins, viruses, and polysaccharides. Our discussion focuses on their structure- and phase-related piezoelectric properties and fabrication strategies to achieve desired piezoelectric phases. We compare and analyze their piezoelectric performance and further introduce and comment on the approaches to improve their piezoelectric property. Representative biomedical applications of this group of functional biomaterials including energy harvesting, sensing, and tissue engineering are also discussed. We envision that molecular-level understanding of the piezoelectric effect, piezoelectric response improvement, and large-scale manufacturing are three main challenges as well as research and development opportunities in this promising interdisciplinary field.
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- Ruoxing Wang
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States
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Kim D, Han SA, Kim JH, Lee JH, Kim SW, Lee SW. Biomolecular Piezoelectric Materials: From Amino Acids to Living Tissues. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2020; 32:e1906989. [PMID: 32103565 DOI: 10.1002/adma.201906989] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2019] [Revised: 12/16/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Biomolecular piezoelectric materials are considered a strong candidate material for biomedical applications due to their robust piezoelectricity, biocompatibility, and low dielectric property. The electric field has been found to affect tissue development and regeneration, and the piezoelectric properties of biological materials in the human body are known to provide electric fields by pressure. Therefore, great attention has been paid to the understanding of piezoelectricity in biological tissues and its building blocks. The aim herein is to describe the principle of piezoelectricity in biological materials from the very basic building blocks (i.e., amino acids, peptides, proteins, etc.) to highly organized tissues (i.e., bones, skin, etc.). Research progress on the piezoelectricity within various biological materials is summarized, including amino acids, peptides, proteins, and tissues. The mechanisms and origin of piezoelectricity within various biological materials are also covered.
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- Daeyeong Kim
- Department of Energy Science and Engineering, Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST), Daegu, 42988, Republic of Korea
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- School of Advanced Materials Science and Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Suwon, 440-746, Republic of Korea
- Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials, Australian Institute for Innovative Materials, University of Wollongong, Squires Way, North Wollongong, NSW, 2500, Australia
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- Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials, Australian Institute for Innovative Materials, University of Wollongong, Squires Way, North Wollongong, NSW, 2500, Australia
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- Department of Energy Science and Engineering, Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST), Daegu, 42988, Republic of Korea
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- School of Advanced Materials Science and Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Suwon, 440-746, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
- Biological Systems and Engineering Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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Guerin S, Syed TAM, Thompson D. Deconstructing collagen piezoelectricity using alanine-hydroxyproline-glycine building blocks. NANOSCALE 2018; 10:9653-9663. [PMID: 29757342 DOI: 10.1039/c8nr01634h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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Collagen piezoelectricity has been the focus of a large number of experimental and theoretical studies for over fifty years. Less is known about the piezoelectric properties of its building blocks, in particular but not limited to, proline and hydroxyproline. Spurred by the recent upsurge of interest in piezoelectricity in organic crystals including our own report of unprecedentedly high piezoelectricity in amino acid glycine, we predict and measure the piezoelectric properties of collagen subcomponents in single crystalline forms and the collagen-like alanine-hydroxyproline-glycine trimer peptide. We map the modulation of piezoelectric charge constants in collagen building blocks as the crystal symmetry is lowered and the molecule size increases, finding strong evidence for amino acid-level barcoding of collagen piezoelectricity that can in turn be tuned using very simple chemistry. The simple addition of an -OH group can increase piezoelectric constants by up to two orders of magnitude (d25 = 25 ± 5 pC N-1) as measured in Y-cut hydroxyproline crystals. The value is similar to that obtained from thermoelectrically poled commercial polyvinylidene di fluoride (PVDF) films. Overall, our findings support a simple block by block approach in which first principles calculations can guide the understanding and re-engineering of piezoelectric biomolecules.
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- Sarah Guerin
- Department of Physics, Bernal Institute, University of Limerick, V94 T9PX, Ireland
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Guerin S, Stapleton A, Chovan D, Mouras R, Gleeson M, McKeown C, Noor MR, Silien C, Rhen FMF, Kholkin AL, Liu N, Soulimane T, Tofail SAM, Thompson D. Control of piezoelectricity in amino acids by supramolecular packing. NATURE MATERIALS 2018; 17:180-186. [PMID: 29200197 DOI: 10.1038/nmat5045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 125] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/02/2017] [Accepted: 10/31/2017] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Piezoelectricity, the linear relationship between stress and induced electrical charge, has attracted recent interest due to its manifestation in biological molecules such as synthetic polypeptides or amino acid crystals, including gamma (γ) glycine. It has also been demonstrated in bone, collagen, elastin and the synthetic bone mineral hydroxyapatite. Piezoelectric coefficients exhibited by these biological materials are generally low, typically in the range of 0.1-10 pm V-1, limiting technological applications. Guided by quantum mechanical calculations we have measured a high shear piezoelectricity (178 pm V-1) in the amino acid crystal beta (β) glycine, which is of similar magnitude to barium titanate or lead zirconate titanate. Our calculations show that the high piezoelectric coefficients originate from an efficient packing of the molecules along certain crystallographic planes and directions. The highest predicted piezoelectric voltage constant for β-glycine crystals is 8 V mN-1, which is an order of magnitude larger than the voltage generated by any currently used ceramic or polymer.
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- Sarah Guerin
- Department of Physics, University of Limerick, V94 T9PX, Ireland
- Bernal Institute, University of Limerick, V94 T9PX, Ireland
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- Department of Physics, University of Limerick, V94 T9PX, Ireland
- Bernal Institute, University of Limerick, V94 T9PX, Ireland
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- Department of Physics, University of Limerick, V94 T9PX, Ireland
- Bernal Institute, University of Limerick, V94 T9PX, Ireland
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- Department of Physics, University of Limerick, V94 T9PX, Ireland
- Bernal Institute, University of Limerick, V94 T9PX, Ireland
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- Department of Physics, University of Limerick, V94 T9PX, Ireland
- Bernal Institute, University of Limerick, V94 T9PX, Ireland
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- Department of Physics, University of Limerick, V94 T9PX, Ireland
- Bernal Institute, University of Limerick, V94 T9PX, Ireland
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- Bernal Institute, University of Limerick, V94 T9PX, Ireland
- Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Limerick, V94 T9PX, Ireland
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- Department of Physics, University of Limerick, V94 T9PX, Ireland
- Bernal Institute, University of Limerick, V94 T9PX, Ireland
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- Department of Physics, University of Limerick, V94 T9PX, Ireland
- Bernal Institute, University of Limerick, V94 T9PX, Ireland
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- Department of Physics & CICECO-Aveiro Institute of Materials, University of Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal
- School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Ural Federal University, 620000 Ekaterinburg, Russia
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- Department of Physics, University of Limerick, V94 T9PX, Ireland
- Bernal Institute, University of Limerick, V94 T9PX, Ireland
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- Bernal Institute, University of Limerick, V94 T9PX, Ireland
- Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Limerick, V94 T9PX, Ireland
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- Department of Physics, University of Limerick, V94 T9PX, Ireland
- Bernal Institute, University of Limerick, V94 T9PX, Ireland
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- Department of Physics, University of Limerick, V94 T9PX, Ireland
- Bernal Institute, University of Limerick, V94 T9PX, Ireland
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Minary-Jolandan M, Yu MF. Nanoscale characterization of isolated individual type I collagen fibrils: polarization and piezoelectricity. NANOTECHNOLOGY 2009; 20:085706. [PMID: 19417467 DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/20/8/085706] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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Piezoresponse force microscopy was applied to directly study individual type I collagen fibrils with diameters of approximately 100 nm isolated from bovine Achilles tendon. It was revealed that single collagen fibrils behave predominantly as shear piezoelectric materials with a piezoelectric coefficient on the order of 1 pm V(-1), and have unipolar axial polarization throughout their entire length. It was estimated that, under reasonable shear load conditions, the fibrils were capable of generating an electric potential up to tens of millivolts. The result substantiates the nanoscale origin of piezoelectricity in bone and tendons, and implies also the potential importance of the shear load-transfer mechanism, which has been the principle basis of the nanoscale mechanics model of collagen, in mechanoelectric transduction in bone.
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- Majid Minary-Jolandan
- Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1206 West Green Street, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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Fernandes RMT, Couto Neto RG, Paschoal CWA, Rohling JH, Bezerra CWB. Collagen films from swim bladders: preparation method and properties. Colloids Surf B Biointerfaces 2007; 62:17-21. [PMID: 17959363 DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfb.2007.09.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2007] [Revised: 09/05/2007] [Accepted: 09/07/2007] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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This paper describes the preparation and characterization of collagen films extracted from swim bladders of three species of tropical fishes: Arius parkeri (Gurijuba), Cynoscion acoupa (Pescada Amarela) and Cynoscion leiarchus (Pescada Branca). Collagen was extracted under acidic conditions (CH(3)COOH, 2.5 pH) and precipitated by the addition of NaCl up to 3.0 mol L(-1). The films were prepared in acrylic containers and dried in a vacuum atmosphere. The collagen films were characterized by hydroxyproline contents, thermal analysis, scanning electron microscopy and impedance spectroscopy. The determined values of 4-hydroxiproline and collagens in the films were: 105.23+/-4.48 and 873.2; 102.94+/-4.42 and 854.1; 100.65+/-4.80 and 835.8 mg g(-1) for A. parkeri, C. acoupa and C. leiarchus, respectively. Differential scanning calorimetry revealed high denaturation temperature peaks at temperatures ranging from 65.9 to 74.8 degrees C. The micrographs showed no fibrillar organization along the material, but spongy structure, with cavity diameters relatively uniform, at around 2 microm. The impedance spectroscopy presented a distributed relaxation process. A. parkeri's films showed piezoelectricity.
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- R M T Fernandes
- Departamento de Química, CCET, Universidade Federal do Maranhão, Avenida dos Portuguese s/n, Campus do Bacanga, São Luís, Maranhão, Brazil
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