Nacre
Images: (1) Nautilus (2) Nacre
Captions: 1) Nautilus shell cut to see the interior
2) Scanning electron micrograph of artificial nacre developed by researchers at Oklahoma State University and Digital Instruments/Veeco. One micron is one millionth of a meter.
Credit for Nautilus: K.S. Matz (Kerry Matz [ksmatz@mac.com])
Credit for 2 Inset (nacre): Credit: Zhiyong Tang, Oklahoma State University; NSF
NSF Funded: Nautilus NO
NSF Funded: Nacre inset YES
Website: http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/news/03/pr0360_images.htm
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