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SUBMITTER: Dong Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6941885 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Dong Yixiao Y Bazrafshan Alisina A Pokutta Anastassia A Sulejmani Fatiesa F Sun Wei W Combs J Dale JD Clarke Kimberly C KC Salaita Khalid K
ACS nano 20190911 9
Stimuli-responsive color-changing hydrogels, commonly colored using embedded photonic crystals (PCs), have potential applications ranging from chemical sensing to camouflage and anti-counterfeiting. A major limitation in these PC hydrogels is that they require significant deformation (>20%) in order to change the PC lattice constant and generate an observable chromatic shift (∼100 nm). By analyzing the mechanism of how chameleon skin changes color, we developed a strain-accommodating smart skin ...[more]