Biomimetic chameleon soft robot with artificial crypsis and disruptive coloration skin.

ABSTRACT: Development of an artificial camouflage at a complete device level remains a vastly challenging task, especially under the aim of achieving more advanced and natural camouflage characteristics via high-resolution camouflage patterns. Our strategy is to integrate a thermochromic liquid crystal layer with the vertically stacked, patterned silver nanowire heaters in a multilayer structure to overcome the limitations of the conventional lateral pixelated scheme through the superposition of the heater-induced temperature profiles. At the same time, the weaknesses of thermochromic camouflage schemes are resolved in this study by utilizing the temperature-dependent resistance of the silver nanowire network as the process variable of the active control system. Combined with the active control syst

SUBMITTER: Kim H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8355336 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature