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Our idea was to look for a cheaper way to let through more or less light, by stretching a transparent polymer that is readily available,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/news.mit.edu\/2016\/tune-polymer-material-transparency-smart-windows-0122\" target=\"_blank\">explained<\/a> Lopez Jim\u00e9nez, researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).<\/p>\n<p>The research team included Shanmugam Kumar from the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology in Abu Dhabi and Pedro Reis, professor of civil and environmental engineering and mechanical engineering.<\/p>\n<p>The team analysed the light-transmitting properties of a simple block of PDMS &#8211; a widely used rubbery, transparent polymer.<\/p>\n<p>The polymer block contained some darkened regions, and the team was looking to see how deforming the block would change the light traveling through the material.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a happy accident. We were just playing with the material, and we soon got interested in how we can predict this and get the numbers right,&#8221; Jim\u00e9nez said in a paper published in the journal Advanced Optical Materials.<\/p>\n<p>After following some more experiments, the researchers were able to come up with the new material.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you give me the initial material properties and measure the incoming light intensity, we know exactly how much light will go through with deformation,&#8221; Jim\u00e9nez noted.<\/p>\n<p>Jim\u00e9nez envisions covering window surfaces with several layers of the polymer structure. 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