The complex-shaped ... brittlestar crystals with the ultimate goal of building complex arrays of micro-lenses. Most lenses today are built by carefully grinding down a piece of glass.

Analysis of the microscopic structure of an ancient shard of Roman glass has revealed how photonic crystals form, and might enable them to be grown. When you purchase through links on our site ...

Roman glass shards are noteworthy for their iridescent hues of blue, green, and orange—the result of the corrosion process slowly restructuring the glass to form photonic crystals—and this ...

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or liquid crystal elastomer. LCEs are class of bendy, elastic materials can stretch and expand with heat or in a chemical bath. It lifts a slate of glass 175 times its own weight Scientists have ...

I wake up wanting to make things.” Jewelry sold at Crystal's Treasure Box features sea glass ranging in shape and color. (Larissa Beriswill - The Morning Journal) With sea glass, Nevedale said ...

Crystals and DNA, for example ... and can store data at multiple levels securely for just over 50 years. 5D glass disks are another idea – a prototype the size of a £2 coin that can hold ...