A highly conspicuous mineralized composite photonic architecture in the translucent shell of the blue-rayed limpet
Many species rely on diverse selections of entirely organic photonic structures for the manipulation of light and the display of striking colours. Here we report the discovery of a mineralized hierarchical photonic architecture embedded within the translucent shell of the blue-rayed limpet Patella p...
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Nature Publishing Group
2015
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/96853 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3511-5679 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6741-9741 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7395-8824 |