Yet this characteristic may soon be a thing of the past: a team of researchers has recently presented a new ceramic material inspired by mother-of-pearl from the small single-shelled marine ...

The researchers who created the artificial mother-of-pearl say it is environmentally ... five steps that shellfish use to build nacre in thin, repeating layers. The researchers then tried to ...

Now a new material is similar to natural mother-of-pearl, but twice as strong ... Chitosan can be assembled layer-by-layer to form thin foils of a composite material exhibiting a nacre-like ...

A new synthetic material similar in structure to nacre – mother of pearl – is likely the toughest ... Those best efforts have resulted in only very thin films, not bulk specimens with real ...

Although you may know it simply as the shiny iridescent stuff on the inside of mollusk shells, mother-of-pearl (or nacre ... University recently created super-strong glass, by etching nacre ...

Mother of pearl, which is also known as nacre ... Therefore, the aragonite tablets are cemented together by a thin layer made up of an organic mixture. These shells can withstand strong impacts ...

The substance mimics the structure of mother-of-pearl, and its creators say further development of their new technique could provide lighter body armour, as well as aircraft and vehicle parts.