The alignment results are shown in figure . For solid glycine, liquid glycine, and water molecules, the alignment with the electric field vector is found to be a monotonically increasing function of increasing electric field intensity. This is equivalent to previous observations of the alignment response from both water molecules , and paracetamol molecules , to increasing static electric field intensity. For all electric field intensities, the alignment of solid-state and liquid glycine is larger than that of liquid water molecules after 4.2 ns of simulation. This is agreement with the ranking of glycine > water ranking of dipole moments, where the 9.98 D dipole moment of the glycine zwitterion (estimating using CNDO charges) is nearly four times larger than the 2.35 D dipole moment of SPC/E water molecules. As such, the electric field induced forces seeking to align glycine molecules are larger, favoring a higher degree of alignment for glycine. However there is a transient associated with obtaining preferable alignment of solid-glycine molecules relative to water. Here, the time needed for solid glycine molecules to reorient preferably to liquid water molecules is a decreasing function with increasing electric field intensity. The electric field intensity dependent, time delayed, alignment of solid-state glycine molecules suggests that the reorientation to an electric field aligned glycine orientation is kinetically hindered due to an energy barrier. The increasing electric field strengths provide the necessary force to push the glycine molecules over the barrier, hence increasing the rate at which solid glycine molecules align.