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The temperature dependence of the piezoelectric response of many protein amino acids and their compounds exhibits a sharp increase in the piezoelectric response signals at a certain temperature. It has been shown using the example of the known ferroelectrics without a piezoelectric effect in the paraphase (triglycine sulfate, glycine phosphite, trisarcosine calcium chloride) that such an increase in the piezoelectric response is associated with the structural phase transition to the low-symmetry piezoelectric phase with a large number of piezoelectric coefficients. The specific features of the phase transitions with the symmetry change D 2-C 2 have been discussed.
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Original Russian Text © V.V. Lemanov, S.N. Popov, G.A. Pankova, 2011, published in Fizika Tverdogo Tela, 2011, Vol. 53, No. 8, pp. 1526–1529.
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Lemanov, V.V., Popov, S.N. & Pankova, G.A. Phase transitions in crystals of protein amino acids. Phys. Solid State 53, 1603–1607 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063783411080166
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