Among the most prized are those that contain iridescent mother of pearl (also known as nacre ... the team made their composite material by forming wavy sheets of the mineral aragonite on a ...

A new synthetic material similar in structure to nacre – mother of pearl – is likely the toughest ... freeze it to encourage ice to form in sheets. The ice acts as a mould, sandwiching the ...

Further, to obtain hexagonal patterns on sheets of borosilicate glass, i.e., to mimic the design of mother of pearl, scientists used a pulsed ultraviolet laser beam to the glass. This glass could be ...

Plasticiet debuted its limited-edition Mother of Pearl collection at the Collectible ... The company produces sheet-plastics that have a similar look to man-made stone composites like terrazzo ...

A silk-based version of mother of pearl is stronger and tougher than hard ... The mould’s shape caused the water to freeze into sheets, trapping the silk protein molecules between them.

Artificial mother-of-pearl can be made by mimicking the natural ... in Hefei and his colleagues built their own matrix by growing sheets of ice, which squeezed a solution of the biopolymer ...

You can check out at any time. More info Rolls-Royce has created a one-off Phantom limousine called Serenity, complete with a mother-of-pearl paint job and silk interiors. The ultra-luxurious car ...