The elephants will thank the inventors of artificial ivory when their tusks no longer end up as piano keys and chess figures.
![Reportage Photography: Scientists create artificial ivory: Artificial ivory can be used for piano keys. Close-up of piano keys.](https://www.scheible.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/reportagefotografie-kuenstliches-elfenbein-klaviertasten-nahaufnahme-800x533.jpg)
Close up of piano keys.
![Reportage photography: Scientists create artificial ivory: piano with keys made of artificial ivory. One of the scientists plays with it in the corridor at his institute.](https://www.scheible.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/reportagefotografie-kuenstliches-elfenbein-klavierspiel-800x533.jpg)
Piano with keys made of artificial ivory.
![Reportage photography: Scientists create artificial ivory: One of the scientists is playing with pleasure on the piano, whose keys were made of the new material.](https://www.scheible.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/reportagefotografie-kuenstliches-elfenbein-klavier-tasten-533x800.jpg)
Scientist plays with pleasure on the piano with keys made of artificial ivory.
![Reportage photography: Scientists create artificial ivory: portrait format of the keyboard with white keys made of the new material. You can see the hand of the player.](https://www.scheible.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/reportagefotografie-kuenstliches-elfenbein-nahaufnahme-klavierspiel-hochformat-533x800.jpg)
Piano playing with white keys made of the new material.
![Reportage photography: Scientists create artificial ivory: Landscape format of the keyboard with white keys made of the new material. You can see the hand of the player.](https://www.scheible.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/reportagefotografie-kuenstliches-elfenbein-nahaufnahme-klavierspiel-querformat-800x533.jpg)
Piano playing with white keys made of the new material in landscape format,
![Reportage photography: Scientists create artificial ivory: Photo of a piano keyboard from above with artificial ivory and the moving hands of a player.](https://www.scheible.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/reportagefotografie-kuenstliches-elfenbein-klavierspiel-von-oben-800x533.jpg)
Photo of a piano keyboard from above with artificial ivory and the moving hands of a player.
![Reportage photography: scientists create artificial ivory: portrait of one of the scientists. He sits at the piano with keys made of the new material.](https://www.scheible.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/reportagefotografie-kuenstliches-elfenbein-wissenschaftler-klavier-800x533.jpg)
Portrait of a scientist at the piano with keys of artificial ivory.
![Reportage photography: Scientists create artificial ivory: The two scientists under the photo of an elephant. They hope that their newly developed material will help the elephants, whose tusks are traded illegal.](https://www.scheible.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/reportagefotografie-kuenstliches-elfenbein-elefant-wissenschaftler-800x533.jpg)
Scientists create artificial ivory: The two scientists under the photo of an elephant.
![Reportage photography: Scientists create artificial ivory: Portrait of a scientist involved in the development. Through a wide open aperture on the lens, the focus is exactly and exclusively on her eyes.](https://www.scheible.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/reportagefotografie-kuenstliches-elfenbein-portrait-wissenschaftlerin-800x533.jpg)
Scientists create artificial ivory: Portrait of a scientist involved in the development.
![Reportage photography: Scientists create artificial ivory: Portrait of one of the participating scientists in front of a blurred, colour-matched background](https://www.scheible.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/reportagefotografie-kuenstliches-elfenbein-portrait-unscharfer-hintergrund-800x533.jpg)
Scientists create artificial ivory. Portrait in front of a blurred colour-matching background.
![Reportage photography: Scientists create artificial ivory: White chessmen are a possible application.](https://www.scheible.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/reportagefotografie-kuenstliches-elfenbein-schachfiguren-800x533.jpg)
Scientists create artificial ivory: white chess pieces.
![Reportage photography: Scientists create artificial ivory: White chessmen are a possible application. Close-Up.](https://www.scheible.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/reportagefotografie-kuenstliches-elfenbein-schachfiguren-nah-800x533.jpg)
Scientists create artificial ivory: close-Up of white chess figures.
![Reportage photography: Scientists create artificial ivory: they stand in white lab coats in the hallway of the institute and rejoice.](https://www.scheible.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/reportagefotografie-kuenstliches-elfenbein-doppelportrait-laborkittel-533x800.jpg)
Scientists create artificial ivory: they stand in white lab coats in the hallway of the institute.
![Reportage photography: Scientists create artificial ivory: Single portrait of the male scientist in a white lab coat.](https://www.scheible.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/reportagefotografie-kuenstliches-elfenbein-einzelportrait-533x800.jpg)
Scientists create artificial ivory: single portrait.
![Reportage photography: Scientists create artificial ivory: Relaxed single portrait of the female scientist in her white lab coat.](https://www.scheible.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/reportagefotografie-kuenstliches-elfenbein-wissenschaftlerin-portrait-533x800.jpg)
Scientists create artificial ivory: relaxed single portrait of the female scientist.