Glass Sea Research Articles

Journal of Mormon History
Jan 1, 2023
Megan Leverage

BOOK REVIEW • A Sea of Glass: Searching for the Blaschkas’ Fragile Legacy in an Ocean at Risk

Oceanography
Jun 1, 2017
Bruce Robison

Open Access

On A Sea of Glass: The Life and Loss of the RMS Titanic

International Journal of Maritime History
Feb 1, 2015

Photonic crystals based on natural oceanic biominerals

The photonic-crystal properties of natural biomineral crystals—siliceous basal spicules of glass sea sponges—have been studied for the first time. It is shown that the periodic arrangement of concentric cylindrical layers composed of nanodimensional silica particles leads to the formation of forbidden photonic bands.

Technical Physics Letters
Aug 1, 2008
Yu N Kul’Chin + 8

Optical properties of natural biominerals—the spicules of the glass sponges

In the article are given the results of the researches of the glass sea sponges Hyalonema sieboldi and Ferronema sp. spicules as new object of nano-photonics. The distribution of refractive index over the cross section of spicule is given. It is shown that the presence of organosilicon lamination is the reason for the appearance periodic space modulation of the spicule material dielectric constant. With the excitation of basal spicules by the pulses of the second harmonic Nd : YAG—laser was observed a significant increase in the intensity of fluorescence in the long-wave range, with the maximum at the wavelength 770 nm, It is shown that the periodicity of axial cylindrical layers from silicon dioxide of nanometer scale, which is observed in the basal spicules, leads to the formation of the photon bandgaps. This makes it possible to consider the spicules of glass sponges as natural one-dimensional photon crystals.