About this Abstract |
Meeting |
2020 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
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Symposium
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Recent Developments in Biological, Structural and Functional Thin Films and Coatings
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Presentation Title |
Surface Color on Demand: Chameleon effect |
Author(s) |
Karine Mougin, Hendrik Hoelscher |
On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Karine Mougin |
Abstract Scope |
Colors affect our everyday life as they provide critical functions in both recognition and communication. Nearly all artifacts of our everyday are manufactured from polymers composed of permanent color; this is a serious problem for manufacturers, as goods cannot be sold anymore when their color is outdated. So, it is of high interest to add color-changing surfaces to manufacturing system. In nature, changing colors are frequently observed in the animal’s world for camouflage by misleading natural enemies or for courting by standing out from the environment. The most prominent examples are chameleons that are able to exhibit complex and rapid color changes during social interactions. The idea was to create a novel hybrid material able to color change of surfaces at will. The key element of this novel technology is based on the combination of two phenomena observed in the nature and transferable to material science: plasmonic and structural colors. |
Proceedings Inclusion? |
Planned: Supplemental Proceedings volume |