| 2008-11-29 22:36:00
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| Mother of Pearl Secret Revealed |
| In addition to its iridescent beauty, mother of pearl, or nacre, the inner lining of the shells of abalone, mussels and certain other mollusks, is also renowned for an amazing strength and toughness that has been a long-standing mystery. Now, scientists have brought to light a new aspect of nacre%u2019s nanostructural architecture using the polarized x-ray beams and nanoscale imaging capabilities of the Advanced Light Source (ALS), a national synchrotron facility at the U.S. Department of Energy%u2019s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). |
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