{"id":108184,"date":"2020-06-04T16:42:59","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T23:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/butterfly-inspired-nanotech-makes-natural-looking-pictures-on-digital-screens"},"modified":"2020-06-04T16:46:07","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T23:46:07","slug":"butterfly-inspired-nanotech-makes-natural-looking-pictures-on-digital-screens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/butterfly-inspired-nanotech-makes-natural-looking-pictures-on-digital-screens","title":{"rendered":"Butterfly-inspired nanotech makes natural-looking pictures on digital screens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/butterfly-inspired-nanotech-makes-natural-looking-pictures-on-digital-screens2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Taking inspiration from nature\u2019s nanotech that creates the stunning color of butterfly wings, a University of Central Florida researcher is creating technology to make extremely low-power, ultra-high-definition displays and screens that are easier on the eyes.<\/p>\n<p>The new technology creates digital displays that are lit by surrounding <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/light\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">light<\/a> and are more natural looking than current display technologies that rely on energy-intensive bright lights hidden behind screens. The findings were published Wednesday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis display is more of a natural look than your current computer or smartphone screens,\u201d said Debashis Chanda, an associate professor in UCF\u2019s NanoScience Technology Center and principal investigator of the research. \u201cIt is like seeing a portrait on the wall at your house. It doesn\u2019t have that glare or extra light. It is more like looking at the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/natural+world\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">natural world<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taking inspiration from nature\u2019s nanotech that creates the stunning color of butterfly wings, a University of Central Florida researcher is creating technology to make extremely low-power, ultra-high-definition displays and screens that are easier on the eyes. The new technology creates digital displays that are lit by surrounding light and are more natural looking than current [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1512,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-mobile-phones","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108185,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108184\/revisions\/108185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}