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The effective electromechanical response of intact cortical bone was found to lie in the sub-picometer-per-volt range, whereas the mineral-dominated, deproteinized structure exhibited a markedly reduced response approaching the symmetry-limited behavior of centrosymmetric hydroxyapatite, with near-zero effective coefficients under dual AC resonance tracking conditions (\n                    <jats:italic>d<\/jats:italic>\n                    <jats:sub>33<\/jats:sub>\n                    ,\n                    <jats:sub>eff<\/jats:sub>\n                    = \u2212 0.0138 \u00b1 0.0074 pm V\n                    <jats:sup>\u22121<\/jats:sup>\n                    ). The inferred piezoelectric coefficient associated with the collagen component was estimated to lie within the range of approximately 0.2\u20130.4 pm V\n                    <jats:sup>\u22121<\/jats:sup>\n                    , which is in qualitative agreement with previously reported nanoscale measurements of isolated collagen fibrils, although the values obtained here are lower, likely due to differences in experimental conditions, sample preparation, and measurement sensitivity. 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