Most of us are aware of lenses that of the cameras and our eyes, but how many of you have even heard of a lens made from your teeth or even egg shells?! Perhaps none, as such innovative thoughts can only be expected from impertinent and crazy scientists.
Scientists have found that ‘opaque materials’ - like human teeth, eggshells, or even daisy petals and white paints — can sharply focus light! Not seem to be satisfied with this discovery, they are planning to thus, turn such opaque materials into lenses, interestingly in an inexpensive way.
Thanks to the researchers at the Twente University in the Netherlands.
To come up with this finding, researchers used a daisy petal, a piece of eggshell 0.4-millimeter-thick, a layer of paint and interestingly, a 1.5-millimeter-thick human tooth.
Optimistic with the finding, they hope that all such opaque materials can match the resolution of even most perfect microscope.
So, manufacturers and consumers gear up to grab those new ‘cheap lenses’ once they are in the market - though an obvious threat to the present optical microscope lens-makers.
