Aimee Stapleton, University of Limerick (IMAGE) University of Limerick Caption This is Aimee Stapleton, Irish Research Council EMBARK Postgraduate fellow at University of Limerick, Ireland and lead author of The Direct Piezoelectric Effect in the Globular Protein Lysozyme published in Applied Physics Letters, October 2017. Credit Photo by Sean Curtin, TrueMedia. Usage Restrictions The image is licensed for media use in relation to this story only with appropriate caption or credit. License Licensed content Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the use of any information through the EurekAlert system.