Paramesh Karandikar, David Mankus, Margaret Bisher, Abigail Lytton-Jean
These nanostructures are piezoelectric, which means that they develop a charge when mechanically deformed. Due to this, these structures are of interest for a variety of applications ranging from sensing apparatuses for enzymatic activity and photoluminescent sensors to nanoscale energy generation from harvested mechanical motion. Understanding the properties and behaviors of these structures is a key step towards the miniaturized and implantable biosensor platforms of tomorrow.