With the aid of
Massachusetts Institute of Technology experts, Bahrain is working to revitalize
its pearl industry.
A three-year
partnership between the top US institution and the Bahrain Institute for Pearls
andIt will make it easier to distinguish between farmed pearls made by humans
and highly valued natural pearls.
This is a component of
the Bahraini government's dedication to natural pearls, a pricey commodity that
for thousands of years served as the primary source of wealth for the Gulf
region, including the UAE.
Danat is dedicated to
Bahrain's goal of preserving and advancing its history of pearling.
In order to enhance
and solidify Bahrain's position as a major producer of natural pearls, the
country of Bahrain launched a national plan to revitalize the pearl industry in
2017.
Gemstones (Danat), a
gemological laboratory that specializes in the examination and research of
genuine pearls, has been established.
In order to
individually identify a natural pearl and assure traceability "from sea to
consumer," this research will attempt to determine the region of origin
and manner of growth.
Admir Masic, an
associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at MIT, and Vladimir
Bulovic, the Fariborz Maseeh chairman in emerging technologies and professor of
electrical engineering and computer science, will be in charge of the
partnership between Danat and MIT.
The initiative will
automate the classification of pearls using machine learning, allowing
researchers to look into ways to come up with a special identity for each
pearl.
Working with Danat
gives us a special chance to use the methods for multi-scale materials
characterisation developed in our lab to find potentially species-specific
pearl fingerprints, according to Mr Masic.
"A large variety
of diverse species generate pearls, which are extraordinarily intricate and
intriguing hierarchically arranged biological materials."
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