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CRYSTALS of amino-acids may exhibit the property of piezoelectricity1–4 and, like other crystals, may belong to one of the twenty-one so-called piezoelectric crystalline classes5. Our particular interest in investigating piezoelectric resonances in amino-acids was in connexion with our current study of nuclear quadrupole resonances (NQR). For this purpose, it is preferable to choose non-piezoelectric amino-acids so that there is no interference in the detection of the quadrupole spectra6,7.
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VASILESCU, D., CORNILLON, R. & MALLET, G. Piezoelectric Resonances in Amino-acids. Nature 225, 635 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/225635a0
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