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A highly conspicuous mineralized composite photonic architecture in the translucent shell of the blue-rayed limpet

Many species rely on diverse selections of entirely organic photonic structures for the manipulation of light and the display of striking colours. Here we report the discovery of a mineralized hierarchical photonic architecture embedded within the translucent shell of the blue-rayed limpet Patella p...

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Autores principales: Li, Ling, Kolle, Stefan, Weaver, James C., Ortiz, Christine, Aizenberg, Joanna, Kolle, Mathias
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Pub. Group 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4351589/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25716102
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms7322