Natural mother-of-pearl, also known as nacre, has a brick-and-mortar structure: Layers of "bricks" made from a calcium carbonate mineral are held together by thin films of a biopolymer "mortar" such ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.