{"id":226601,"date":"2025-12-06T00:24:42","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T06:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/chameleon-like-nanomaterial-can-adapt-its-color-to-mechanical-strain"},"modified":"2025-12-06T00:24:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T06:24:42","slug":"chameleon-like-nanomaterial-can-adapt-its-color-to-mechanical-strain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/chameleon-like-nanomaterial-can-adapt-its-color-to-mechanical-strain","title":{"rendered":"Chameleon-like nanomaterial can adapt its color to mechanical strain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chameleon-like-nanomaterial-can-adapt-its-color-to-mechanical-strain.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Inspired by the Japanese art of kirigami, a team of scientists from the University of Amsterdam have developed a material that can reflect different colors of light, depending on how it is stretched. The results were recently <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/10.1021\/acsphotonics.5c01385\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal ACS Photonics.<\/p>\n<p>Similar to its perhaps better-known cousin origami\u2014the Japanese art of folding paper\u2014kirigami is an art form in which paper is both folded and cut. The jaw-dropping three-dimensional designs that <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2022-08-repurpose-19th-century-photography-technique-stretchy.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">kirigami artists<\/a> create, inspired a team of physicists from the University of Amsterdam to design an equally spectacular type of material: one that smoothly changes its color when it is stretched.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by the Japanese art of kirigami, a team of scientists from the University of Amsterdam have developed a material that can reflect different colors of light, depending on how it is stretched. The results were recently published in the journal ACS Photonics. Similar to its perhaps better-known cousin origami\u2014the Japanese art of folding paper\u2014kirigami [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226601","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=226601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}