{"id":184303,"date":"2024-03-03T09:22:27","date_gmt":"2024-03-03T15:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/chameleons-inspire-new-multicolor-3d-printing-technology"},"modified":"2024-03-03T09:22:27","modified_gmt":"2024-03-03T15:22:27","slug":"chameleons-inspire-new-multicolor-3d-printing-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/chameleons-inspire-new-multicolor-3d-printing-technology","title":{"rendered":"Chameleons inspire new Multicolor 3D-Printing Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chameleons-inspire-new-multicolor-3d-printing-technology3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Inspired by the color-changing ability of chameleons, researchers have developed a sustainable technique to 3D-print multiple, dynamic colors from a single ink.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy designing new chemistries and printing processes, we can modulate structural color on the fly to produce color gradients not possible before,\u201d said Ying Diao, an associate professor of chemistry and chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a researcher at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology.<\/p>\n<p>The study appears in the journal PNAS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by the color-changing ability of chameleons, researchers have developed a sustainable technique to 3D-print multiple, dynamic colors from a single ink. \u201cBy designing new chemistries and printing processes, we can modulate structural color on the fly to produce color gradients not possible before,\u201d said Ying Diao, an associate professor of chemistry and chemical and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,19,38,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-chemistry","category-engineering","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184303","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\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}