Flexible material mimics octopus skin with nanoscale color and texture transformations

Stanford researchers have developed a flexible material that can quickly change its surface texture and colors, offering ...
C&EN

Polymer film changes texture and color on demand

To control color, the team sandwiched the polymer between two gold films. Light bounces off these films and interferes in ...
Nature

Octopus-inspired ‘synthetic skin’ changes colour and texture on demand

A material that can switch its appearance, cephalopod-style, could have future applications in robotics or display technology ...
Nanowerk

Nanostructured material changes color and texture like an octopus

Researchers have developed a flexible material that can quickly change its surface texture and colors, offering potential ...
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Color-Changing Material That Mimics Octopus Skin Could Be Used for Robotics

Learn more about the polymer film that can change color and texture when electron beams are applied.
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The world needs water. These materials take it from the air

Every evening during the summer of 2020, Xingyi Zhou went up to the roof of her lab building at the University of Texas at Austin to check on two plastic boxes containing radish plants. Plants in one ...