{"id":237572,"date":"2026-05-22T03:18:56","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T08:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/piezoelectric-effect-in-diamond-membranes-challenges-century-old-scientific-dogma"},"modified":"2026-05-22T03:18:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T08:18:56","slug":"piezoelectric-effect-in-diamond-membranes-challenges-century-old-scientific-dogma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/piezoelectric-effect-in-diamond-membranes-challenges-century-old-scientific-dogma","title":{"rendered":"Piezoelectric effect in diamond membranes challenges century-old scientific dogma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/piezoelectric-effect-in-diamond-membranes-challenges-century-old-scientific-dogma.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A research team in China has reported a significant piezoelectric effect in ultrathin and ultra-flexible polycrystalline diamond membranes. This pioneering discovery challenges a century-long scientific dogma that diamonds are strictly non-piezoelectric.<\/p>\n<p>The team was led by Professor Zhiqin Chu, Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Professor Yuan Lin, Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering at the University of Hong Kong (HKU). Their study is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.aea8318\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in Science Advances.<\/p>\n<p>Since the 1900s, diamonds have been classified globally as non-piezoelectric material. Consequently, despite being a strong, hard and inert material with exceptionally high acoustic velocity, thermal conductivity, dielectric breakdown strength and ultrawide bandgap, diamond has only been used as a mechanical substrate supporting other piezoelectric material layers in microelectromechanical systems (MEMS). Indeed, the very idea of \u201cgenerating electricity from diamonds\u201d was initially deemed impractical by many.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A research team in China has reported a significant piezoelectric effect in ultrathin and ultra-flexible polycrystalline diamond membranes. This pioneering discovery challenges a century-long scientific dogma that diamonds are strictly non-piezoelectric. The team was led by Professor Zhiqin Chu, Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Professor Yuan Lin, Professor in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}