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Optical secrets of the natural world

Benjamin Palmer from Ben-Gurion University in Israel talks to Nature Photonics about the intriguing optical properties found in molecular crystals in the living world. His latest paper on the topic can be found in this issue.

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Graydon, O. Optical secrets of the natural world. Nat. Photon. 17, 459–460 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-023-01222-z

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