Any Color You Like

Author: Smith, Douglas L.

Published in: Engineering and Science, Volume 57, Number 3, 1994, pp. 2-7

Part of: Engineering and Science, Volume 57:3, Spring 1994

Item Category: Feature Articles

Persistent URL: https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechES:57.3.Smith

Abstract

Some crystals change color or bend light in response to an electric field. A Caltech-JPL-industry collaboration uses basic chemistry to design plastics that do the same thing, only faster.

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