‘Squid Skin’ Metamaterials Project Yields Vivid Color Display
HOUSTON — 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 by Rice University’s Laboratory for Nanophotonics (LANP).
The new full-color display technology uses aluminum nanoparticles to create the vivid red, blue and green hues found in today’s top-of-the-line LCD televisions and monitors. The technology is described in a new study that was posted in the Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).