Using Nature's Recipe to Create Mother of Pearl (VIDEO)

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Synthetic nacre that falls from a height of one meter. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Aug. 19, 2016, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by L.-B. Mao at University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei, China, and colleagues was titled, "Synthetic nacre by predesigned matrix-directed mineralization."

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Xi-Sheng Luo and Zhi-Gang Zhai, University of Science and Technology of China

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