with quartz being one of the main crystals they focused on. Piezoelectricity first proved its utility in World War I, with submarine warfare and the need for ultrasonic transducers for sonar.

Piezoelectricity—a crystal can generate a tiny electric charge when its atomic structure is squeezed strong enough—occurs in many minerals but is particularly strong in quartz. What if this ...

In a paper published Monday in Nature Geoscience, geologists in Australia write that piezoelectricity is the secret to quartz ...

Studies have confirmed the complete solid solution between these two materials, demonstrating that they can form a stable α-quartz structure when combined in varying ratios. This solid solution ...

Thus, piezoelectricity may be a universal property of living tissue, and may play a significant part in several physiological phenomena ...

Researchers have developed a technique for growing piezoelectric biomolecular crystals that could eliminate the use of toxic ...