Manipulating the Piezoelectric Response of Amino Acid-Based Assemblies by Supramolecular Engineering

Variation in the molecular architecture significantly affects the electronic and supramolecular structure of biomolecular assemblies, leading to dramatically altered piezoelectric response. However, relationship between molecular building block chemistry, crystal packing and quantitative electromechanical response is still not fully understood. Herein, we systematically explored the possibility to amplify the piezoelectricity of amino acid-based assemblies by supramolecular engineering. We show that a simple change of side-chain in acetylated amino acids leads to increased polarization of the supramolecular arrangements, resulting in significant enhancement of their piezoelectric response. Moreover, compared to most of the natural amino acid assemblies, chemical modification of acetylation increased the maximum piezoelectric tensors. The predicted maximal piezoelectric strain tensor and voltage constant of acetylated tryptophan (L-AcW) assemblies reach 47 pm V-1 and 1719 mV m/N, respectively, comparable to commonly used inorganic materials such as bismuth triborate crystals. We further fabricated an L-AcW crystal-based piezoelectric power nanogenerator that produces a high and stable open-circuit voltage of over 1.4 V under mechanical pressure. For the first time, the illumination of a light-emitting diode (LED) is demonstrated by the power output of an amino acid-based piezoelectric nanogenerator. This work presents the supramolecular engineering toward the systematic modulation of piezoelectric response in amino acid-based assemblies, facilitating the development of high-performance functional biomaterials from simple, readily available, and easily tailored building blocks.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:145

Enthalten in:

Journal of the American Chemical Society - 145(2023), 28 vom: 19. Juli, Seite 15331-15342

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Wang, Yuehui [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Shuaijie [VerfasserIn]
Li, Lingling [VerfasserIn]
Li, Hui [VerfasserIn]
Yin, Yuanyuan [VerfasserIn]
Rencus-Lazar, Sigal [VerfasserIn]
Guerin, Sarah [VerfasserIn]
Ouyang, Wengen [VerfasserIn]
Thompson, Damien [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Rusen [VerfasserIn]
Cai, Kaiyong [VerfasserIn]
Gazit, Ehud [VerfasserIn]
Ji, Wei [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

8DUH1N11BX
Amino Acids
Biocompatible Materials
Bismuth
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Tryptophan
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Date Completed 21.07.2023

Date Revised 21.07.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1021/jacs.3c02993

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM358936357