September 15, 2014

‘Squid skin’ metamaterials project yields vivid color display




Rice lab creates RGB color display technology with aluminum nanorods

The quest to create artificial “squid skin” — camouflaging metamaterials that can “see” colors and automatically blend into the background — is one step closer to reality, thanks to a breakthrough color-display technology unveiled this week by Rice University’s Laboratory for Nanophotonics (LANP).