Magazine 2/2012
Microlenses - Formed Naturally
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Materials scientists can sometimes learn from very simple organisms. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces are manufacturing simple, inexpensive and top-quality microlenses from
calcium carbonate.