investigation of nacre nanostructure by analyzing its structural color pattern

Abstract Produced by light interacting with structures at micrometer or nanometer levels, structural color can be utilized to investigate details of material structures. In this article, we studied the pattern of interference color generated from repetitive aragonite–conchiolin double layers on colo...

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Autores principales:	Nicole Fan, Chunhui Zhou, Elina Myagkaya
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Publicado:	Nature Portfolio 2021
Materias:	Medicine R Science Q
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:6d434fcf30394a0e9613e88d1f20e7b22021-12-02T19:16:14Zinvestigation of nacre nanostructure by analyzing its structural color pattern10.1038/s41598-021-99327-42045-2322https://doaj.org/article/6d434fcf30394a0e9613e88d1f20e7b22021-10-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-99327-4https://doaj.org/toc/2045-2322Abstract Produced by light interacting with structures at micrometer or nanometer levels, structural color can be utilized to investigate details of material structures. In this article, we studied the pattern of interference color generated from repetitive aragonite–conchiolin double layers on colorless nacreous pearls. Based on qualitative wave analysis and quantitative electromagnetic computation, we theoretically concluded such patterns are mainly determined by aragonite layer thickness. We also demonstrated how to predict the aragonite layer thickness and estimate the conchiolin refractive index variation on a Tahitian pearl with near-colorless body color and strong iridescence. We believe this approach offers a new perspective to study nanostructures in biology and mineralogy.Nicole FanChunhui ZhouElina MyagkayaNature PortfolioarticleMedicineRScienceQENScientific Reports, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-7 (2021)
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description	Abstract Produced by light interacting with structures at micrometer or nanometer levels, structural color can be utilized to investigate details of material structures. In this article, we studied the pattern of interference color generated from repetitive aragonite–conchiolin double layers on colorless nacreous pearls. Based on qualitative wave analysis and quantitative electromagnetic computation, we theoretically concluded such patterns are mainly determined by aragonite layer thickness. We also demonstrated how to predict the aragonite layer thickness and estimate the conchiolin refractive index variation on a Tahitian pearl with near-colorless body color and strong iridescence. We believe this approach offers a new perspective to study nanostructures in biology and mineralogy.
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title	investigation of nacre nanostructure by analyzing its structural color pattern
title_short	investigation of nacre nanostructure by analyzing its structural color pattern
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investigation of nacre nanostructure by analyzing its structural color pattern

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