A highly conspicuous mineralized composite photonic architecture in the translucent shell of the blue-rayed limpet
Abstract
Many species rely on diverse selections of entirely organic photonic structures for the manipulation of light and the display of striking colours. Here we report the discovery of a mineralized hierarchical photonic architecture embedded within the translucent shell of the blue-rayed limpet Patella pellucida. The bright colour of the limpet’s stripes originates from light interference in a periodically layered zig-zag architecture of crystallographically co-oriented calcite lamellae. Beneath the photonic multilayer, a disordered array of light-absorbing particles provides contrast for the blue colour. This unique mineralized manifestation of a synergy of two distinct optical elements at specific locations within the continuum of the limpet’s translucent protective shell ensures the vivid shine of the blue stripes, which can be perceived under water from a wide range of viewing angles. The stripes’ reflection band coincides with the spectral range of minimal light absorption in sea water, raising intriguing questions regarding their functional significance.
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- Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
- Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States)
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- Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
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- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1215617
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- AC02-06CH11357
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- Accepted Manuscript
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- Nature Communications
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- Journal Volume: 6; Journal ID: ISSN 2041-1723
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- Nature Publishing Group
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- United States
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- English
- Subject:
- 59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES; physical sciences; materials science; optical physics; bioengineering
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Li, Ling, Kolle, Stefan, Weaver, James C., Ortiz, Christine, Aizenberg, Joanna, and Kolle, Mathias. A highly conspicuous mineralized composite photonic architecture in the translucent shell of the blue-rayed limpet. United States: N. p., 2015.
Web. doi:10.1038/ncomms7322.
Li, Ling, Kolle, Stefan, Weaver, James C., Ortiz, Christine, Aizenberg, Joanna, & Kolle, Mathias. A highly conspicuous mineralized composite photonic architecture in the translucent shell of the blue-rayed limpet. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms7322
Li, Ling, Kolle, Stefan, Weaver, James C., Ortiz, Christine, Aizenberg, Joanna, and Kolle, Mathias. Thu .
"A highly conspicuous mineralized composite photonic architecture in the translucent shell of the blue-rayed limpet". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms7322. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1215617.
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title = {A highly conspicuous mineralized composite photonic architecture in the translucent shell of the blue-rayed limpet},
author = {Li, Ling and Kolle, Stefan and Weaver, James C. and Ortiz, Christine and Aizenberg, Joanna and Kolle, Mathias},
abstractNote = {Many species rely on diverse selections of entirely organic photonic structures for the manipulation of light and the display of striking colours. Here we report the discovery of a mineralized hierarchical photonic architecture embedded within the translucent shell of the blue-rayed limpet Patella pellucida. The bright colour of the limpet’s stripes originates from light interference in a periodically layered zig-zag architecture of crystallographically co-oriented calcite lamellae. Beneath the photonic multilayer, a disordered array of light-absorbing particles provides contrast for the blue colour. This unique mineralized manifestation of a synergy of two distinct optical elements at specific locations within the continuum of the limpet’s translucent protective shell ensures the vivid shine of the blue stripes, which can be perceived under water from a wide range of viewing angles. The stripes’ reflection band coincides with the spectral range of minimal light absorption in sea water, raising intriguing questions regarding their functional significance.},
doi = {10.1038/ncomms7322},
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