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‘Smart’ Lenses Change Color on Demand

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WASHINGTON, April 9, 2007 -- ‘Smart’ sunglasses will allow a wearer to instantly change the color of their lenses to any hue of the rainbow by tuning a tiny electronic knob in the frame. "Through polymer chemistry, we’ve developed lenses that aren’t like anything else on the market," said Chunye Xu, a chemical engineer at the University of Washington and associate director of the University’s Center for Intelligent Materials and Systems (CIMS), who are developing the lenses. They described their resarch at the 233rd national meeting of the American Chemical Society, held in March in...Read full article

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    Published: April 2007
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