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Photo of the week: camouflaging synthetic leather

Inspired by the ability of octopuses to camouflage and dynamic skin, nanotechnologists have created variable synthetic skins. By superimposing very thin sheets of polymers, they have developed surfaces with the ability to change colors and textures.

Different textural patterns can be created by electron beams on these polymeric surfaces, which have been programmed to express one or the other texture depending on the conditions. In the case of colors, the change is controlled by microfluids. Therefore, the color of the leather changes when immersed in water.

Nanotechnologists have managed to make the color patterns and texture patterns independent of each other, which has given the synthetic leather greater versatility. it takes less than 20 seconds to change, being able to change as many times as you want without losing performance. They have been published in the Nature magazine.