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Guanine‐Based Photonic Crystals in Fish Scales Form from an Amorphous Precursor

Year: 2012

Type: article

Abstract: Starting from disorder: anhydrous guanine crystals compose the photonic arrays responsible for the skin and scale iridescence found in Japanese Koi fish. These guanine crystals were found to form in intracellular vesicles through an amorphous precursor phase. A combined cryo-SEM and synchrotron radiation X-ray diffraction study showed the evolution of the crystals in great detail.

Source: Angewandte Chemie International Edition

DOI: 10.1002/anie.201205336

Authors: Dvir Gur, Yael Politi, Berta Sivan, Peter Fratzl, Steve Weiner, Lia Addadi

Institutions: Weizmann Institute of Science, Max Planck Society, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Language: English

Topic: Photonic Crystals and Applications

Subfield: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

Field: Physics and Astronomy

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2044240836

FWCI: 3.05

Cites: 29

Cited by: 87

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