Guanine‐Based Photonic Crystals in Fish Scales Form from an Amorphous Precursor
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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.
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Crystal plates in iridophores of the stripe zone were well oriented (ordered), whereas those in the interstripe zone were nonaligned (disordered).
“crystal plates in iridophores of the stripe zone were well oriented (i.e., ordered; Fig. 4a, panels 1 and 3, and Supplementary Fig. 10), whereas those in the interstripe zone were nonaligned (i.e., disordered; Fig. 4a, panels 2 and 4, and Supplementary Fig. 10)”
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- Authors
- Gur, D., Politi, Y., Sivan, B., Fratzl, P., Weiner, S., & Addadi, L.
- Affiliations
- Weizmann Institute of Science (IL)
- Max Planck Society (DE)
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem (IL)
- Corresponding author
- Addadi, Lia
- Venue
- Angewandte Chemie International Edition
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2012-09-05
- Volume
- 52
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 388-391
- ISSN
- 1433-7851 (ISSN-L)
- 1521-3773
- OpenAlex
- W2044240836
- Cited by
- 85
- References
- 2
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- FWCI
- 3.14
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- zenodo.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Angewandte Chemie International Edition (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (submittedVersion)
- Max Planck Digital Library (submittedVersion)
- HZB Repository (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH (HZB)) (submittedVersion)
- MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) (submittedVersion)
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Photonic Crystals and Applications
- Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Biomaterials › Calcium Carbonate Crystallization and Inhibition
- Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Biomaterials › Diatoms and Algae Research
- Keywords
- guanine, photonic crystals, fish scales, koi fish, iridescence, amorphous precursor, intracellular vesicles, crystal growth, biomineralization, structural color
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Carps, Crystallization, Guanine, X-Ray Diffraction, Photons, Integumentary System
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