Flexible material mimics octopus skin with nanoscale color and texture transformations

Stanford researchers have developed a flexible material that can quickly change its surface texture and colors, offering ...
C&EN

Polymer film changes texture and color on demand

To control color, the team sandwiched the polymer between two gold films. Light bounces off these films and interferes in ...
Fast Company

The science behind how animals get their patterns

In our newly published research in Science Advances, my student Ben Alessio and I propose a potential mechanism explaining how these distinctive patterns form—that could potentially be applied to ...
Nanowerk

Nanostructured material changes color and texture like an octopus

Researchers have developed a flexible material that can quickly change its surface texture and colors, offering potential ...
Earth.com

Some dinosaurs were spotted and speckled with brilliant color patterns

New research shows fossil skin can reveal color patterns in young Diplodocus, changing old ideas about sauropod appearance.
Smithsonian Magazine

What Butterflies’ Colorful Wing Patterns Can Teach Us About Evolution

Heliconius charithonia is one of the species of butterflies whose wing patterns scientists scrutinized to better understand the evolutionary process. This butterfly is wild-type; the genetically ...
The Korea Times

Colorful patterns induce imagination

From pink flowers to blue pentagons, the color palette and patterns of Hong Jung-hee, 66, captivate visitors entering Gallery Hyundai Gangnam Space in Apgujeong, southern Seoul. Her first solo ...