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

Learn more about the polymer film that can change color and texture when electron beams are applied.

A material that can switch its appearance, cephalopod-style, could have future applications in robotics or display technology ...

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

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

Octopus and other cephalopods are good at hiding themselves—and are inspiring cutting-edge technologies that may help us do ...

Scientists have unveiled a synthetic skin inspired by octopus camouflage that is capable of changing colour and texture, opening up potential uses from robotics to display technologies. Researchers ...

An artificial skin that can independently control its texture and color, much like an octopus, has been developed. It is ...

Octopuses are renowned for their instant color-changing abilities, a skill they use to outwit predators and surprise prey. Yet, the energy cost behind this extraordinary camouflage has remained a ...

Octopuses change color to camouflage themselves from predators such as stingrays and eels. Octopuses have even been observed changing color in their sleep. Octopus's color-changing ability is known as ...