A Chameleon-inspired Material that Stiffens and Changes Color (VIDEO)

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A video demonstrating how the color and mechanical properties of this new material depend on plastomer morphology. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 30 March 2018 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by M. Vatankhah-Varnosfaderani at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Chapel Hill, N.C., and colleagues was titled, "Chameleon-like elastomers with molecularly encoded strain-adaptive stiffening and coloration."

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M. Vatankhah-Varnosfaderani <i>et al., Science</i> (2018)

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