Camuflaje y visualización para máquinas blandas

Stephen A Morin1, Robert F Shepherd, Sen Wai Kwok

  • 1Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|August 21, 2012
PubMed
Resumen

Los investigadores desarrollaron máquinas blandas con redes microfluídicas que imitan las habilidades de cambio de color de los animales. Estas máquinas pueden alterar el color, el contraste y la temperatura para el camuflaje y la visualización, incluso en el espectro infrarrojo.

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