High-throughput computational screening of small, molecular crystals for sustainable piezoelectric materials

Shubham Vishnoi, Geetu Kumari, Robert Guest, Pierre-André Cazade and Sarah Guerin

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2025, e202501232.

DOI: 10.1002/anie.202501232
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Fluorination Induced Inversion of Helicity and Self-Assembly Into Cross-α Like Piezoelectric Amyloids by Minimalistic Designer Peptide

Sukantha Dey, Emily H. Field, Yuehui Wang, Kyunghoon Han, Rohit Kumar, Linda J. W. Shimon, Shuaijie Liu, Sarah Guerin, Joshua T. Berryman, Wei Ji, Nicholas P. Reynolds and Santu Bera

Small 2025, 2500288

DOI: 10.1002/smll.202500288

Halogen and hydrogen bonded 2-X-pyridin-3-ol (X = Cl, Br, I) organic crystals with large shear piezoelectricity

Geetu Kumari, Charlie O’Mahony, Ragima V.P. Veluthaparambath, Suman Bhattacharya, Binoy K. Saha and Sarah Guerin

Matter 2025, 102098

DOI: 10.1002/smll.202500288

Outside Front Cover: High-Throughput Computational Screening of Small Molecular Crystals for Sustainable Piezoelectric Materials

Shubham Vishnoi, Geetu Kumari, Robert Guest, Pierre-André Cazade and Sarah Guerin

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2025, e202507410.

DOI: 10.1002/anie.202507410
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Harvesting of shear piezoelectricity in a molded multicomponent crystal disc

Suman Bhattacharya, Pierre-Andre Cazade, Krishna Hari, Tara Ryan, Lynette Keeney, Charlie O'Mahony, Sarah Guerin

Volume 39, August 2024, 102344

DOI: 10.1016/j.apmt.2024.102344

Molded, Solid-State Biomolecular Assemblies with Programmable Electromechanical Properties

Krishna Hari, Tara Ryan, Suman Bhattacharya and Sarah Guerin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 137001

DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.137001

Piezoelectric Self‐assembling Peptides for Engineering Applications

Haoran Wu, Sarah Guerin, Syed A. M. Tofail, Rusen Yang, Ehud Gazit, Damien Thompson and Kai Tao

In Peptide Self-Assembly and Engineering, X. Yan (Ed.)

DOI: 10.1002/9783527841264.ch16

Detection of Pipeline Leaks using BiopiezoelectricEnergy Harvesting Sensors via RecurrenceQuantification and Neuromorphic Computing

Aasifa Rounak, Shreyan Banerjee, George Vathakkattil Joseph, Favour Okosun, Sarah Guerin and Vikram Pakrashi

In Peptide Self-Assembly and Engineering, X. Yan (Ed.)

DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-3976308/v1

Top Tips for Designing and Managing a Public Engagement Laboratory

Martin McHugh, Ebru Eren, Genco Guralp, Krishna Hari, Sarah Guerin, Sarah Hayes, Colm O’Hehir, Eamonn O’Sullivan, Alida Zauers and Caitriona Tyndall

J. Chem. Educ. 2024, 101, 3, 1071–1077

DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.3c01053

Natural cellulose-based Cu (II) complex: An eco-friendly nanocatalyst for Ullmann condensations at room temperature

Rahman, M. L., Sarjadi, M. S., Fui, C. J., Guerin, S., Pillai, S. C., & Sarkar, S. M. (2023). Journal of Cleaner Production, 136015.

Piezoelectric device comprising an amino acid crystal

Tofail, S. A., Thompson, D., & Guerin, S. (2023). U.S. Patent No. 11,563,165. Washington, DC: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Heteroatom-directed supramolecular helical-rich architectures in N-terminal protected pyridyl aromatic amino acids

Vijayakanth, T., Xue, B., Guerin, S., Rencus-Lazar, S., Fridman, N., Thompson, D., ... & Gazit, E. (2023). Journal of Materials Chemistry C.

Molecular Engineering of Bio-Assemblies: Prospects and Design Rules for Sustainable, Wearable Electromechanical Materials

Guerin, S., Cazade, P. A., O'Donnell, J., Tofail, S. A., & Thompson, D. Supramolecular Nanotechnology: Advanced Design of Self‐Assembled Functional Materials, 1, 245-269.

Decoding Supramolecular Packing Patterns from Computed Anisotropic Deformability Maps of Molecular Crystals

Zwane, R. R., Klug, J., Guerin, S., Thompson, D., & Reilly, A. M. (2023). The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 127(11), 5533-5543.

Regulating photosalient behaviour in dynamic metal-organic crystals.

Preprint: Khan, S., Dutta, B., Naaz, S., Choudhury, A., Cazade, P. A., Kiely, E., ... & Mir, M. H. (2022).

Modulating the Electromechanical Response of Bio-Inspired Amino Acid-Based Architectures through Supramolecular Co-Assembly

Ji, W., Xue, B., Yin, Y., Guerin, S., Wang, Y., Zhang, L., ... & Gazit, E. (2022). Journal of the American Chemical Society, 144(40), 18375-18386.

Molecular Engineering of Rigid Hydrogels Co-assembled from Collagenous Helical Peptides Based on a Single Triplet Motif

Bera, S., Cazade, P. A., Bhattacharya, S., Guerin, S., Ghosh, M., Netti, F., ... & Adler-Abramovich, L. (2022). ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 14(41), 46827-46840.

Getting the Lead Out: Biomolecular Crystals as Low-Cost, High-Performance Piezoelectric Components

Guerin, S. (2022). Accounts of Materials Research, 3(8), 782-784.

Co‐Assembly Induced Solid‐State Stacking Transformation in Amino Acid‐Based Crystals with Enhanced Physical Properties

Ji, W., Yuan, H., Xue, B., Guerin, S., Li, H., Zhang, L., ... & Gazit, E. (2022) Angewandte Chemie, 134(17), e202201234.

Poly (amidoxime) Resins for Efficient and Eco-friendly Metal Extraction

ML Rahman, MS Sarjadi, S Guerin, SM Sarkar ACS Applied Polymer Materials 4 (4), 2216-2232

Modulating vectored non-covalent interactions for layered assembly with engineerable properties

Zhang, J., Guerin, S., Wu, H., Xue, B., Cao, Y., ... & Gazit, E. (2022). Bio-Design and Manufacturing, 1-11.

Guest Molecule-Mediated Energy Harvesting in a Conformationally Sensitive Peptide–Metal Organic Framework

Chen, Y., Guerin, S., Yuan, H., O’Donnell, J., Xue, B., Cazade, P. A., ... & Gazit, E. (2022). Journal of the American Chemical Society.

Tracing shape memory effect and elastic bending in a conformationally flexible organic salt

Hasija, A., Ranjan, S., Guerin, S., Mangalampalli, S. K., Takamizawa, S., & Chopra, D. (2022). Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 10(11), 4257-4267.

NUIG4: A Biocompatible pcu Metal-Organic Framework with an Exceptional Doxorubicin Encapsulation Capacity

Ahmed, A., Efthymiou, C., Sanii, R., Patyk-Kaźmierczak, E., Alsharabasy, A. M., Winterlich, M., ... & Papatriantafyllopoulou, C. (2022). Journal of Materials Chemistry B.