China Claims Development of Chameleon-Like Military Camouflage Tech

Published on January 8, 2025

A team of Chinese scientists has claimed the development of a groundbreaking camouflage technology that allows rapid color changes in response to its surroundings.

Lead researcher Wang Dongsheng from the University of Electronics Science and Technology of China explained that the breakthrough material uses a combination of donor-acceptor Stenhouse adducts and organic dyes to achieve color-changing properties.

It operates through a process called self-adaptive photochromism (SAP), in which a molecular compound alters its structure when exposed to specific wavelengths of light.

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