Beetle shell inspires brilliant white paper

Thursday, June 11, 2009 - 07:22 in Biology & Nature

An obscure species of beetle has shown how brilliant white paper could be produced in a completely new way. A team from Imerys Minerals Ltd. and the University of Exeter has taken inspiration from the shell of the Cyphochilus beetle to understand how to produce a new kind of white coating for paper...

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