Concept: Structural Coloration

There are certain types of plastic that has what’s called “nanogrooves” that when the light hits them in a certian way, the light is reflected and creates a color. We wondered about how we could incorporate this light reflection into something else.

Futurity: Chocodescent

We made chocodescent as a fun experiment with food. You take a piece of the material with nanogrooves, pour the chocolate on top, and it will take on the nanogrooves, and reflect light too.

Looking Forward:

Nanogrooves work with lots of different things, so who knows what’s next!