{"id":226473,"date":"2025-12-04T01:29:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T07:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/smart-material-instantly-changes-colors-on-demand-for-use-in-textiles-and-consumer-products"},"modified":"2025-12-04T01:29:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T07:29:01","slug":"smart-material-instantly-changes-colors-on-demand-for-use-in-textiles-and-consumer-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/smart-material-instantly-changes-colors-on-demand-for-use-in-textiles-and-consumer-products","title":{"rendered":"Smart material instantly changes colors on demand for use in textiles and consumer products"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/smart-material-instantly-changes-colors-on-demand-for-use-in-textiles-and-consumer-products.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have developed a revolutionary technique for creating colors that can change on command. These are structural colors that don\u2019t rely on dyes or pigments and can be used for display signage, adaptive camouflage and smart safety labels, among other applications.<\/p>\n<p>Structural colors are not created by pigments or dyes but are colorless arrangements of physical nanostructures. When light waves hit these nanostructures, they interfere with one another. Some waves cancel each other out (they are absorbed) while the rest are reflected (or scattered) back to our eyes, giving us the color we see.<\/p>\n<p>Structural color systems can be engineered to reflect multiple colors from the same colorless material. This is different from pigments, which absorb light and reflect only one color\u2014red pigments reflect red, blue pigments reflect blue and so on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have developed a revolutionary technique for creating colors that can change on command. These are structural colors that don\u2019t rely on dyes or pigments and can be used for display signage, adaptive camouflage and smart safety labels, among other applications. Structural colors are not created by pigments or dyes but are colorless arrangements of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226473","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}