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SCIENCE
Volume 337, Issue 6096, Pages 828-832Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1222149
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- U.S. Department of Energy [DE-FG02-00ER45852]
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency [W911NF-11-1-0094]
- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) [DE-FG02-00ER45852] Funding Source: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
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Synthetic systems cannot easily mimic the color-changing abilities of animals such as cephalopods. Soft machines-machines fabricated from soft polymers and flexible reinforcing sheets-are rapidly increasing in functionality. This manuscript describes simple microfluidic networks that can change the color, contrast, pattern, apparent shape, luminescence, and surface temperature of soft machines for camouflage and display. The color of these microfluidic networks can be changed simultaneously in the visible and infrared-a capability that organisms do not have. These strategies begin to imitate the functions, although not the anatomies, of color-changing animals.
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