The octopus-inspired material could lead to better camouflage technology for the military and beyond.

New fabrication method produces hydrogel-based smart synthetic skin with adjustable optical, mechanical, and surface ...

Despite the prevalence of synthetic materials across different industries and scientific fields, most are developed to serve ...

Researchers at Penn State have developed a new fabrication method that allows a programmable ...

Researchers unveil octopus-inspired smart skin that hides images, changes shape, and encodes data via 4D printing.

The hydrogel behaves like a programmable canvas. Rather than using traditional pigments, researchers embedded data directly ...

Despite the prevalence of synthetic materials across different industries and scientific fields, most are developed to serve ...

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