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Projects

Dr. Igor Bdikin
Local Electromechanical properties of Organic Materials

Summary
Piezoelectricity is the ability of noncentrosymmetric crystals to produce mechanical stress/strain under electric field or charge under mechanical stress. This fundamental property has long been used in numerous devices microelectromechanical systems (MEMS): such as acoustic transducers, sensors and actuators, piezoelectric motors, rf resonators, SAW filters, microenergy generators (energy harvesting). In fact, piezoelectric has become a backbone of the multibillion dollar industry with major production areas in microelectronics, transport, space and military (e.g. sonars) applications. To date, one of the most popular energy harvesting or piezoelectric sensor materials is lead zirconium titanate (PZT) because of its high piezoelectric constant and electromechanical coupling factor. However, the critical issues currently limiting its wide applications lie in its fragility and environmental hazardous element (lead). To address these problems, much effort has been expended on the piezoelectric organic compounds and their composites.
Peptides, amino acids, proteins and, specifically, aromatic diphenylalanine have recently become the focus of intense research in the field of nanomaterials due to their promising applications in both bionanodevices and as basic building blocks for bottom-up nanofabrication. Recently we discovered the strong piezoelectric activity in glycine and diphenylalanine nanotubes (FF PNTs) holds a great promise for using piezoeffect in such applications. We plan to investigate the electromechanical properties of PNTs and the several an other organic nanostructures, films, fibers and microcrystals (dielectric, ferroelectric, piezoelectric, optical etc) in view of their unexpectedly piezoelectric and ferroelectric activity. Thermal and mechanical stability of organic materials will be investigated thus making the applications of these materials feasible in the nearest future. This activity will gain the detailed knowledge of the physics of the piezoelectric properties of organic molecular nanostructures and will open an avenue for their further exploitation in biomedical devices.
 
List of projects
Lead-free piezoelectric nanostructures for energy harvesting devices
FCT, Portugal
IF/00582/2015

 

Main results
  • Martina Kocijan, Lidija Ćurković, Davor Ljubas, Katarina Mužina, Ivana Bačić, Tina Radošević, Matejka Podlogar, Igor Bdikin, Gonzalo Otero-Irurueta, María J. Hortigüela and Gil Gonçalves, Graphene-Based TiO2 Nanocomposite for Photocatalytic Degradation of Dyes in Aqueous Solution under Solar-Like Radiation, Appl. Sci. 2021, 11(9), 3966. https://doi.org/10.3390/app11093966
  • M.K. Raseel Rahman, B. Riscob, Budhendra Singh, R. Bhatt, Indranil Bhaumik, S. Ganesamoorthy, N. Vijayan, A.K. Karnal, Igor Bdikin, Lekha Nair, Nanoindentation and structural studies of MgO-doped congruent LiNbO3 single crystals, Materials Chemistry and Physics 264, 124425 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matchemphys.2021.124425
  • Pankaj Bharmoria, Meena Bisht, Maria C. Gomes, Margarida Martins, Márcia C. Neves, João F. Mano, Igor Bdikin, João A. P. Coutinho & Sónia P. M. Ventura, Protein-olive oil-in-water nanoemulsions as encapsulation materials for curcumin acting as anticancer agent towards MDA-MB-231 cells, SCIENTIFIC REPORTS11(1) 9099 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-88482-3
  • Alina V. Semchenko, Vitaly V. Sidsky, Igor Bdikin, Vladimir E. Gaishun, Svitlana Kopyl, Dmitry L. Kovalenko, Oleg Pakhomov, Sergei A. Khakhomov and Andrei L. Kholkin, Nanoscale Piezoelectric Properties and Phase Separation in Pure and La-Doped BiFeO3 Films Prepared by Sol-Gel Method, MATERIALS 14(7), 1694 (2021). https://doi.org/10.3390/ma14071694
  • Dayana L. Guzmán Sierra, Dr. Igor Bdikin, Dr. Alexander Tkach, Prof. Paula M. Vilarinho, Dr. Cláudia Nunes, Dr. Paula Ferreira, Flexible Piezoelectric Chitosan and Barium Titanate Biocomposite Films for Sensor Applications, EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF INORGANIC CHEMISTRY 2021 (9), 792-803 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1002/ejic.202000938
  • E. Venkata Ramanaa, N.M. Ferreira, A. Mahajan, D.M. Tobaldi, I. Bdikin, B. Rozic, Z. Kutnjak, M.A.Valente, Processing mediated enhancement of ferroelectric and electrocaloric properties in Ba(Ti0.8Zr0.2)O3–(Ba0.7Ca0.3)TiO3 lead-free piezoelectrics, Journal of the European Ceramic Society xxx (xxxx) xx. https://doi.org/ 10.1016/j.jeurceramsoc.2021.06.048
  • Shish Pal Rathee, Dharamvir Singh Ahlawat, S.A.Martin Britto Dhas, K.K.Maurya, BudhendraSingh, Igor Bdikin, Investigation on key properties of solution grown l-Leucine hydrobromide single crystal: A semi-organic NLO material, Materials Science and Engineering: B  264, 114927 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mseb.2020.114927
  • Ivonne Rosales, Laura Salazar, Daniel Luna, Alicia Negrón, Igor Bdikin, Brian J. Rodriguez, Alejandro Heredia, Self-Assembly of Amyloid-Beta and Its Piezoelectric Properties, American Journal of Molecular Biology 11, 1-14 (2021). https://doi.org/10.4236/ajmb.2021.111001
  • C.Bharath Sabarish, G.Ramesh Kumar, S.Gokulraj, A.Durairajan, E.Venkata Ramana, Igor Bdikin, B.M.S.Teixeira, Nikolai Sobolev, M.P.F.Graça, M.A.Valente, B.N.Rajasekhar, Surface and bulk modifications in gamma irradiated < 011 > oriented ferroelectric triglycine sulphate (tgs) single crystals, OPTIK 222, 165326 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijleo.2020.165326
  • Shish Pal Rathee, Dharamvir Singh Ahlawat, S.A. Martin Britto Dhas, K.K. Mauray, Budhendra Singh, Igor Bdikin, Investigations on key aspects of solution growth L-Alanine strontium chloride trihydrate single crystal for non-linear optical and photonic applications, SOLID STATE COMMUNICATIONS, 319, 114010 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssc.2020.114010
  • André F. Girão, Joana Sousa, Ana Domínguez-Bajo, Ankor González-Mayorga, Igor Bdikin, Eulalia Pujades-Otero, Nieves Casañ-Pastor, María Jesús Hortigüela, Gonzalo Otero-Irurueta, António Completo, María Concepción Serrano, and Paula A.A.P. Marques, 3D Reduced Graphene Oxide Scaffolds with a Combinatorial Fibrous-Porous Architecture for Neural Tissue Engineering, ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 12, 38962-38975 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.0c10599
  • Angela Semitela, Andre F. Girao, Carla Fernandes, Goncalo Ramalho, Goncalo Bdikin, Antonio Completo, Paula A. A. P. Marques, Electrospinning of bioactive polycaprolactone-gelatin nanofibres with increased pore size for cartilage tissue engineering applications, JOURNAL OF BIOMATERIALS APPLICATIONS, 0885328220940194 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1177/0885328220940194
  • Abid Hussain, Nidhi Sinha, Abhilash J. Joseph, Sahil Goel, Budhendra Singh, Igor Bdikin, Binay Kumar, Mechanical investigations on piezo-/ferrolectric maleic acid-doped triglycine sulphate single crystal using nanoindentation technique, ARABIAN JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY 13(1), pp. 1874-1889 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.arabjc.2018.02.001
  • Vladimir Bystrov, Igor Bdikin, Budhendra Singh, Piezoelectric and ferroelectric properties of various amino acids and dipeptides tubular nanostructures: Molecular modelling, NANOMATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING 2(1), pp. 11-24 (2020). https://doi.org/10.34624/nmse.v2i1.8259
  • Maciej Wojtas, Vasyl Kinzhybalo, Igor Bdikin, Andrei L.Kholkin, Crystal Structure and Strong Piezoelectricity of New Amino Acid Based Hybrid Crystals: [H-beta-(3-Pyridyl)-Ala-OH][ClO4] and [H-beta-(4-Pyridyl)-Ala-OH][ClO4], CRYSTAL GROWTH & DESIGN 19(5), pp. 2583-2593 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.cgd.8b01611
  • Goel, Sahil; Yadav, Harsh; Sinha, Nidhi; Singh, Budhendra; Bdikin, Igor; Kumar, Binay, X-ray, dielectric, piezoelectric and optical analyses of a new nonlinear optical 8-hydroxyquinolinium hydrogen squarate crystal, ACTA CRYSTALLOGRAPHICA SECTION B-STRUCTURAL SCIENCE CRYSTAL ENGINEERING AND MATERIALS 74, 1, 12-23 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1107/S2052520617013038
  • Shkir, Mohd; Muhammad, Shabbir; AlFaify, S.; Irfan, Ahmad; Khan, M. Ajmal; Al-Sehemi, Abdullah G.; Yahia, I. S.; Singh, Budhendra; Bdikin, Igor, A comparative study of key properties of glycine glycinium picrate (GGP) and glycinium picrate (GP): A combined experimental and quantum chemical approach    JOURNAL OF SAUDI CHEMICAL SOCIETY 22, 3, 352-362 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jscs.2016.05.003
  • Safaryan, Sofia; Slabov, Vladislav; Kopyl, Svitlana; Romanyuk, Konstantin; Bdikin, Igor; Vasilev, Semen; Zelenovskiy, Pavel; Shur, Vladimir Ya.; Uslamin, Evgeny A.; Pidko, Evgeny A.; Vinogradov, Alexander V.; Kholkin, Andrei L., Diphenylalanine-Based Microribbons for Piezoelectric Applications via Inkjet Printing, ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 10, 12, 10543, 10551 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.7b19668
  • Bhukkal, Sumit; Sinha, Nidhi; Yadav, Harsh; Goel, Sahil; Singh, Budhendra; Bdikin, Igor; Kumar, Binay, Glycine glutaric acid cocrystals: Morphological, optical, dielectric and mechanical properties via nanoindentation, VACUUM 154, 90-100 (2018).    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vacuum.2018.04.043
  • Mohd. Shkir, Shabbir Muhammad, S. AlFaify, Ahmad Irfan, M. Ajmal Khan, Abdullah G. Al-Sehemi, I.S. Yahia, Budhendra Singh, Igor Bdikin, A comparative study of key properties of glycine glycinium picrate (GGP) and glycinium picrate (GP): A combined experimental and quantum chemical approach, Journal of Saudi Chemical Society 22, 3,  352-362 (2018). http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jscs.2016.05.003
  • Sahil Goel, Harsh Yadav, Nidhi Sinha, Budhendra Singh, Igor Bdikin, Devarapalli Chenna Rao, Kovuru Gopalaiahd and Binay Kumara, An insight into the synthesis, crystal structure, geometrical modelling of crystal morphology, Hirshfeld surface analysis and characterization of N-(4-methylbenzyl)benzamide single crystals, J. Appl. Cryst. 50, 1498–1511 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1107/S1600576717012316
  • Shish Pal Rathee, S.A. Martin Britto Dhas, Budhendra Singh, Igor Bdikin, Dharamvir Singh Ahlawat,Investigations on crystal perfection, mechanical and thermo-electric properties of L-ornithine monohydrochloride single crystal: A promising material for nonlinear optical applications, Materials Chemistry and Physics 200 376-383 (2017).  http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.matchemphys.2017.08.004
  • V. S. Bystrov, I. K. Bdikin, M. V. Silibin, D. V. Karpinsky, S. A. Kopyl, G.Goncalves, A. V. Sapronova, T. Kuznetsova & V. V. Bystrova, Graphene/graphene oxide and polyvinylidene fluoride polymer ferroelectric composites for multifunctional applications, FERROELECTRICS 509, 124–142 (2017). http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00150193.2017.1295745
  • Vladimir S. Bystrov, Igor K. Bdikin, Maksim Silibin, Dmitry Karpinsky, Svitlana Kopyl, Ekaterina V. Paramonova, Gil Goncalves, Molecular modeling of the piezoelectric properties of ferroelectric composites containing polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) and either graphene or graphene oxide, J Mol Model 23: 128 (2017). http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00894-017-3291-2
  • Harsh Yadav, Nidhi Sinha, Sahil Goel, Budhendra Singh, Igor Bdikin, Anupama Saini, Kovuru Gopalaiah and Binay Kumar, Growth, crystal structure, Hirshfeld surface, optical, piezoelectric, dielectric and mechanical properties of bis(L-asparaginium hydrogensquarate) single crystal, Acta Cryst. B73, 1-13 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1107/S2052520617002906
  • M.V. Silibin, V.S. Bystrov, D.V. Karpinsky, N. Nasani, G. Goncalves, I.M. Gavrilin, A.V. Solnyshkin, P.A.A.P. Marques, Budhendra Singh, I.K. Bdikin,Local mechanical and electromechanical properties of the P(VDF-TrFE)-graphene oxide thin films Applied Surface Science 421, 42–51, (2017). http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apsusc.2017.01.291
  • Igor Bdikin, Vladimir Bystrov, Budhendra Kumar Singh, Piezoelectricity in ribonucleosides and deoxynucleosides microcrystals via piezoresponse force microscopy, Int. J. Nanotechnol., Vol. 13, Nos. 10/11/12, pp.891 – 902 (2016). http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/IJNT.2016.080369
  • Budhendra Singh, Mohd. Shkir, S. AlFaify, Ajay Kaushal, Narendar Nasani, Igor Bdikin, H. Shoukry, I.S. Yahia, H.Algarni, Structural, optical, thermal, mechanical and dielectric studies of Sulfamic acid single crystals: An influence of dysprosium (Dy3+) doping, JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR STRUCTURE, 1119, 365-372 (2016).  http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.molstruc.2016.04.091
  • V.S. Bystrov, E. Seyedhosseini, I.K. Bdikin, S. Kopyl, A.L. Kholkin, S.G. Vasilev, P.S. Zelenovskiy, D.S. Vasileva, and V.Ya. Shur, Glycine nanostructures and domains in beta-glycine: computational modeling and PFM observations, FERROELECTRICS 496, 28–45 (2016). http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00150193.2016.1157435
  • Ray Geeta; Sinha Nidhi; Singh Budhendra; Igor Bdikin, Binay Kumar, Lead-Free Relaxor Ferroelectric Na0.47K0.47Li0.06Nb0.94Sb0.06O3 Crystals for Optoelectronic Applications, CRYSTAL GROWTH & DESIGN 15, 1852-1860 (2015). http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/cg501891r
  • E. Seyedhosseini, I. Bdikin, M. Ivanov, D. Vasileva, A. Kudryavtsev, B. J. Rodriguez, A. L. Kholkin, Tip-induced domain structures and polarization switching in ferroelectric amino acid glycine, Journal of Applied Physics 118, 072008 (2015). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4927807
  • Igor Bdikin, Alejandro Heredia, Sabine M. Neumayer, Vladimir S. Bystrov, José Gracio, Brian J. Rodriguez, and Andrei L. Kholkin, Local piezoresponse and polarization switching in nucleobase thymine microcrystals, Journal of Applied Physics 118, 072007 (2015). http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4927806
  • V. S.Bystrov, E.Seyedhosseini, I.Bdikin, S.Kopyl, S. M.Neumayer, J.Coutinho, A. L.Kholkin, Bioferroelectricity in Nanostructured Glycine and Thymine: Molecular Modeling and Ferroelectric Properties at the Nanoscale, FERROELECTRICS 475, 107-126 (2015).