video: Synthetic nacre that falls from a height of one meter. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Aug. 19, 2016, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by L.-B. Mao at University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei, China, and colleagues was titled, 'Synthetic nacre by predesigned matrix-directed mineralization.' view more
Credit: Xi-Sheng Luo and Zhi-Gang Zhai, University of Science and Technology of China