Smart hybrid nanostructures for cancer treatment

The project leading to this work has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 751903

Converse Piezoelectricity and Ferroelectricity in Crystals of Lysozyme Protein Revealed by Piezoresponse Force Microscopy

In recent years, piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM) has been used to investigate the piezoelectric and ferroelectric behaviour of many biological materials. Piezoelectricity has been studied in fibrous proteins such as collagen [1, 2] and elastin [3], with the later also demonstrating ferroelectricity. However, a comprehensive understanding of piezoelectricity and ferroelectricity in non-fibrous proteins is lacking.Acknowledgement: Funding from the Irish Research Council Embark Postgraduate Scholarship (2012-2015) is acknowledged. CICECO and FCT are acknowledged via grant PestC/CTM/LA0011/013

Multimodal characterization of broadband, polycrystalline silver halide fibre bundle for confocal laser scanning microscopy in the near-mid infrared spectra

This work was supported by the Russian Science Foundation under grant No. 18-73-11063

Piezoresponse force microscopy and electron backscattering diffraction of 90° ferroelectric twins in BaTiO3 positive temperature coefficient (PTC) thermistors

The authors acknowledge funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program, OYSTER (Open characterisation and modelling environment to drive innovation in advanced nanoarchitectured and bio-inspired hard/soft interfaces) under grant agreement No 760827, Enterprise Ireland, Innovation Partnership Programme (Project No: IP/2013/0281), Irish Research Council postgraduate scholarship and Higher Education Authority (HEA)