{"id":143470,"date":"2022-08-03T10:22:30","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T15:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/mit-scientists-create-color-shifting-films-inspired-by-19th-century-holography"},"modified":"2022-08-03T10:22:30","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T15:22:30","slug":"mit-scientists-create-color-shifting-films-inspired-by-19th-century-holography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/mit-scientists-create-color-shifting-films-inspired-by-19th-century-holography","title":{"rendered":"MIT scientists create color-shifting films inspired by 19th-century holography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mit-scientists-create-color-shifting-films-inspired-by-19th-century-holography.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Potential applications include pressure-monitoring bandages, shade-shifting fabrics.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The bright iridescent colors in butterfly wings or beetle shells don\u2019t come from any pigment molecules but from how the wings are structured\u2014a naturally occurring example of what physicists call photonic crystals. Scientists can make their own structural colored materials in the lab, but it can be challenging to scale up the process for commercial applications without sacrificing optical precision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Potential applications include pressure-monitoring bandages, shade-shifting fabrics. The bright iridescent colors in butterfly wings or beetle shells don\u2019t come from any pigment molecules but from how the wings are structured\u2014a naturally occurring example of what physicists call photonic crystals. Scientists can make their own structural colored materials in the lab, but it can be challenging [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143470","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\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}