The DOI matches its Crossref record; 1 of the 1 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
Biological Ferroelectricity Uncovered in Aortic Walls by Piezoresponse Force Microscopy
Open accessAbstract
Many biological tissues are piezoelectric and pyroelectric with spontaneous polarization. Ferroelectricity, however, has not been reported in soft biological tissues yet. Using piezoresponse force microscopy, we discover that the porcine aortic walls are not only piezoelectric, but also ferroelectric, with the piezoelectric coefficient in the order of 1 pm/V and coercive voltage approximately 10 V. Through detailed switching spectroscopy mapping and relaxation studies, we also find that the polarization of the aortic walls is internally biased outward, and the inward polarization switched by a negative voltage is unstable, reversing spontaneously to the more stable outward orientation shortly after the switching voltage is removed. The discovery of ferroelectricity in soft biological tissues adds an important dimension to their biophysical properties, and could have physiological implications as well.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
Generation of electric potentials by bone in response to mechanical stress
Bassett, C. A. L., & Becker, R. O. (1962) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.137.3535.1063 · Cited by 778
Cited by
A lead-halide perovskite molecular ferroelectric semiconductor
Liao, W.-Q., Zhang, Y., Hu, C.-L., Mao, J.-G., Ye, H.-Y., Li, P.-F., Huang, S. D., & Xiong, R.-G. (2015) · Nature Communications · doi:10.1038/ncomms8338 · Cited by 710
Self-citationTayi, A. S., Kaeser, A., Matsumoto, M., Aida, T., & Stupp, S. I. (2015) · Nature Chemistry · doi:10.1038/nchem.2206 · Cited by 474
Lunar biological effects and the magnetosphere
Bevington, M. (2015) · Pathophysiology · doi:10.1016/j.pathophys.2015.08.005 · Cited by 50
Metadata
- Authors
- Liu, Y., Zhang, Y., Chow, M.-J., Chen, Q. N., & Li, J.
- Venue
- Physical Review Letters
- Publisher
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Published
- 2012-02-13
- Volume
- 108
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 078103-078103
- ISSN
- 0031-9007 (ISSN-L)
- 1079-7114
- OpenAlex
- W2067914570
- Cited by
- 170
- References
- 1
- FWCI
- 9.27
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: Biological Ferroelectricity Uncovered in Aortic Walls by Piezoresponse Force Microscopy. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1103/physrevlett.108.078103
- The paper
- Liu, Y., Zhang, Y., Chow, M.-J., Chen, Q. N., & Li, J. (2012). Biological Ferroelectricity Uncovered in Aortic Walls by Piezoresponse Force Microscopy. Physical Review Letters. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.108.078103
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
