• The mesoscale order of nacreous pearls 

      Gim, Jiseok; Koch, Alden; Otter, Laura M.; Savitzky, Benjamin H.; Erland, Sveinung; Estroff, Lara A.; Jacob, Dorrit E.; Hovden, Robert (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      A pearl’s distinguished beauty and toughness are attributable to the periodic stacking of aragonite tablets known as nacre. Nacre has naturally occurring mesoscale periodicity that remarkably arises in the absence of ...