14/09/2013
La MIT invente un nouveau matériel de camouflage pour les soldats inspiré du calamar et de la pieuvre !
La MIT invente un nouveau matériel de camouflage pour les soldats inspiré du calamar et de la pieuvre !
Article scientifique : http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adma.201301472/abstract
A squid-inspired infrared camouflage could one day help soldiers escape detection on night-time missions.The stealthy substance, created from a protein called reflectin, can be dynamically retuned to different wavelengths of light, allowing a hypothetical wearer to choose what types of light to reflect or absorb. "This tenability allows our films to reversibly disappear and reappear when visualised with an infrared imaging camera," write the University of California Irvine team behind the research, in a paper published in Advanced Materials.