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

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Li, Ling ^a,b   Kolle, Stefan ^b   Weaver, James C ^b   Ortiz, Christine ^a   Aizenberg, Joanna ^a,b   Kolle, Mathias ^c  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEA WATER;

COMPOSITE; GASTROPOD; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; SEAWATER; SELECTION; SHELL;

ANIMAL SHELL; ARCHITECTURE; ARTICLE; BLUE RAYED LIMPET; COLOR; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIMPET; MICROSCOPY; MINERALIZATION; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OPTICS; PATELLA PELLUCIDA; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPECTROSCOPY; ANIMAL; GASTROPOD; LIGHT RELATED PHENOMENA; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

PATELLA PELLUCIDA;

ANIMAL SHELLS; ANIMALS; COLOR; GASTROPODA; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL PHENOMENA;

EID: 84923873557     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms7322     Document Type: Article

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