Know how researchers created a synthetic material, elastomers, that can change color and texture to specific voltage change, like that of cephalopods
Learn about elastomers that are changeable in colour and texture, much like the skin of octopuses and other cephalopods. In the elastomers, these changes take place under electrical stimulation.
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