#Reflectivity

[a-dream-seeking-light]

reflectivity featuring aweng chuol for dansk magazine september 2018 photographed by oliver stalmans and styled by anna katsanis

[blossominthewoods]

We grow to know that we don't know. And that is all we truly need to know.

[a-light-seeking-dream]

reflectivity featuring aweng chuol for dansk magazine september 2018 photographed by oliver stalmans and styled by anna katsanis

[materialsscienceandengineering]

Beetle exoskeleton and conductive polymer create novel light-modulating material

Some beetles, such as Anomala albopilosa, strongly reflect left circularly polarized light (electromagnetic waves that oscillate leftward relative to the direction of light reception). This property originates from the formation of a cholesteric liquid crystal phase with an optically active, helical structure during chrysalis during exoskeleton formation and the solidification of this phase into a rigid skeleton while retaining its helical structure. Researchers at the University of Tsukuba have coated the surface of its exoskeleton with an electrically conductive polymer, polyaniline. The polymer does not reflect circularly polarized light; however, electrical or chemical oxidation of the polymer changes its coloration, thereby changing its light transmittance. By combining the color change caused by the oxidation and reduction of polyaniline with the exoskeleton's properties of reflecting circularly polarized light, the researchers have crafted a new polymer element that can modulate the reflection intensity of the circularly polarized light. The work is published in the journal Next Materials.

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[darkenergyslivers]

reflectivity featuring aweng chuol for dansk magazine september 2018 photographed by oliver stalmans and styled by anna katsanis  

[philosophybits]

Man, a wild beast, cousin of the gorilla, has emerged from the profound darkness of animal instinct into the light of the mind, which explains in a wholly natural way all his past mistakes and partially consoles us for his present errors.

Mikhail Bakunin, God and the State

[ultraweathercoremax]

Sea looks calm and reflective today, very light breeze

[blogquantumreality]

I love how reflective snow is at night, and on the rare occasions when the snow sticks here I love how bright everything is outside.

Is there a word for that like, “bright darkness” you get in winter?? When it’s been snowing or it’s supposed to snow past sunset and the sky isn’t Dark Enough. One of my favorite things

[bookwyrminspiration]

sometimes a theme recurs in your work without your permission. and sometimes it reaches a threshold where you're like. well now i think this is saying something about me against my will. don't know what though

[a-dream-seeking-light]

reflectivity featuring aweng chuol for dansk magazine september 2018 photographed by oliver stalmans and styled by anna katsanis

[tio-trile]

Something something vampires have no reflection so he can't even try to see his brother's face anymore when he looks into the mirror

[a-light-seeking-dream]

reflectivity featuring aweng chuol for dansk magazine september 2018 photographed by oliver stalmans and styled by anna katsanis

[materialsscienceandengineering]

A team of international researchers has developed a natural fabric that urban residents could wear to counter rising temperatures in cities worldwide, caused by buildings, asphalt, and concrete. As heatwaves become more prominent, cooling textiles that can be incorporated into clothes, hats, shoes and even building surfaces provide a glimpse into a future where greenhouse gas-emitting air conditioners may no longer be needed in our cities. Engineers from Zhengzhou University and the University of South Australia say the wearable fabric is designed to reflect sunlight and allow heat to escape, while blocking the sun's rays and lowering the temperature. They have described the textiles in the latest issue of Science Bulletin.

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[darkenergyslivers]

reflectivity featuring aweng chuol for dansk magazine september 2018 photographed by oliver stalmans and styled by anna katsanis  

[sunshinetrinket]

i hope im not just a mutual to you but also a really annoying stranger who is somehow always going through something