image: Optical images of the natural nacre. 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: Li-Bo Mao, Huai-Ling Gao, Yu-Feng Meng, Ning Yang and Si-Ming Chen, University of Science and Technology of China