I want to switch a game object's material back to its original after its been altered?!?!?!

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In my game, when an object is selected, it applies the diffuse shader to the object which then highlights it.

When the object is clicked again when it has been highlighted, I want the highlighting shader to be turned off and the original material to be applied.

 else if (hit.collider.tag == "Object" && lastClicked != null && taptaptapSelect.enabled == true) {
					//Debug.Log ("This hit at " + hit.transform.name);
					print (clickedGameObject.gameObject.name);
				//	print ("tapTime");

					//clickedGameObject.gameObject.active = false;
					rend = clickedGameObject.GetComponent<Renderer> ();
					rend.material = diffuseShader;

				}

How can I capture the original material of a game object?

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Have a non-local member public Material originalMaterial; that saves the original material. Then assign the material later by rend.material = originalMaterial;