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- Ratings
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- Cadence
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- First episode
About Chemistry in its element
The chemical breakdown is your biweekly source of the latest chemistry news, featuring discussions by our Chemistry World writers on the most exciting announcements and innovations in the field. Plus the full archive of Chemistry in its element – the audio tour of the periodic table and beyond. From Chemistry World, the magazine of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
- Publisher
- Chemistry World
- Category
- science · science
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 18 Apr 2008
- Latest episode
- 14 Oct 2026
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Published 14 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] So yeah, it really is taking a leaf out of nature's book. Yeah, exactly. So that's, I think we, I'm not sure if we mentioned this in the intro or not, but that, that's exactly that biomimetic. That's basically what it means is taking a concept from nature and replicating it with our own kind of technology using our own applications i love that stuff because if nature's already come up with a way of doing it why shouldn't we so really really interesting stuff and this in this case i think your article mentioned that you could see this in like lotus leaves for example in um the way that snow in i think it's even within like polar bear fur i think polar bear fur is actually clear and Their skin underneath is black, but they look white because of the diffraction. […]
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