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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Chances are it’s the latter, but U.K. brand Mother of Pearl is here to change all your preconceived notions about what sustainable fashion looks like. With luxury materials and a high-fashion ...

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 ...

The most satisfying thing hands down," says Amy Powney, the creative director of Mother of Pearl, "is that it's cheaper." This may be the most surprising revelation of a project that's been two and a ...