image: Cephalopods' exceptional ability to hide into any background has inspired researchers to replicate their fascinating ability to camouflage in the infrared (IR) and visible spectrum. Recent ...

An IR camouflage scheme developed at the armored-vehicle arm of BAE Systems in Sweden lets tanks and other armored vehicles look like Toyota pickup trucks or blend into the background of trees and ...

(Nanowerk News) The space industry has seen rapid growth, with satellite launches increasing sharply. By the end of 2023, there were more than 9,850 active spacecraft worldwide, and the annual space ...

A team of researchers have done something pretty remarkable with graphene, and it has nothing to do with battery technology or next-generation semiconductors. Instead, they developed a graphene-based ...

Schematic of the TCM–MWG–TED structure. The upper thermochromic (TCM) layer provides visible camouflage with high transparency in the 8–14 μm mid-infrared range. The middle layer consists of a ...

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A bionic form of camouflage designed to reflect both visible and infrared light and mimic the appearance of leafy foliage could be used to hide technology such as surveillance equipment in forest ...

Researchers have made a thermal camouflage device from graphene that can adjust how much heat it emits in response to the background temperature (Nano Lett. 2018, DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.8b01746).

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Infrared cameras detect people and other objects by the heat they emit. Now, researchers have discovered the uncanny ability of a material to hide a target by masking its ...