{"id":95069,"date":"2019-08-21T11:43:14","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T18:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/colour-changing-artificial-chameleon-skin-powered-by-nanomachines"},"modified":"2019-08-21T11:43:14","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T18:43:14","slug":"colour-changing-artificial-chameleon-skin-powered-by-nanomachines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/colour-changing-artificial-chameleon-skin-powered-by-nanomachines","title":{"rendered":"Colour-changing artificial \u2018chameleon skin\u2019 powered by nanomachines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/colour-changing-artificial-chameleon-skin-powered-by-nanomachines2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have developed artificial \u2018chameleon skin\u2019 that changes color when exposed to light and could be used in applications such as active camouflage and large-scale dynamic displays.<\/p>\n<p>The material, developed by researchers from the University of Cambridge, is made of tiny particles of gold coated in a polymer shell, and then squeezed into microdroplets of water in oil. When exposed to heat or <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/light\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">light<\/a>, the particles stick together, changing the color of the material. The results are reported in the journal Advanced Optical Materials.<\/p>\n<p>In nature, animals such as chameleons and cuttlefish are able to change color thanks to chromatophores: skin cells with contractile fibers that move pigments around. The pigments are spread out to show their color, or squeezed together to make the cell clear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have developed artificial \u2018chameleon skin\u2019 that changes color when exposed to light and could be used in applications such as active camouflage and large-scale dynamic displays. The material, developed by researchers from the University of Cambridge, is made of tiny particles of gold coated in a polymer shell, and then squeezed into microdroplets of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95069","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=95069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}