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Chameleon-like elastomers with molecularly encoded strain-adaptive stiffening and coloration
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Active camouflage from a polymer: Human skin is soft and compliant, but it can quickly become stiff when deformed to prevent injury. Chameleon skin can change color when the animal goes from a relaxed to an excited state. Although these properties can be captured individually in synthetic materials, the combination of different dynamic responses can be hard to control. Vatankhah-Varnosfaderani et al. created triblock copolymers of the ABA variety, where the A blocks have a linear structure and the B blocks are like bottlebrushes. When strained, these polymers stiffened like human skin and changed color, thus giving the materials a range of adaptive properties. Science , this issue p. 1509
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Metadata
- Authors
- Vatankhah-Varnosfaderani, M., Keith, A. N., Cong, Y., Liang, H., Rosenthal, M., Sztucki, M., Clair, C., Magonov, S., Ivanov, D. A., Dobrynin, A. V., & Sheiko, S. S.
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- Science
- Published
- 2018-03-30
- Volume
- 359
- Issue
- 6383
- Pages
- 1509-1513
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- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
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- W2794989242
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- 519
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 16.90
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- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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