**Acknowledgements**

Preliminary work on strontium titanate-containing biocomposites was published in an international journal [11]. This work is supported by the National Science Foundation under research Grant Nos. 0833112 and 1345156 (CREST program) and under instrumentation Grant Nos. 0619349 and 0922994. The authors would like to thank the invaluable assistance of the undergraduate student Javier Martínez and the technical personnel of the Materials Laboratories and Power Electronics Laboratories of the University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez.: Dr. Eduardo I. Ortiz Rivera, and the students Daniel A. Merced Cirino and Alexander Collazo Irizarry.
