To create the camouflage material, the engineers incorporated a light-sensing nanomaterial inside the shape-shifting gel, turning it into a flexible, camouflage-like skin.

The active camouflage tools in the works today don’t rely on metamaterials, she noted, but the research conducted through the partnership could eventually help develop a similar capability using ...

The camouflage system is part of the Ratnik-3 soldier improvement program shown above. Ratnik is a decade-long effort to improve the equipment of soldiers in the Russian Ground Forces ...

This could be used to make light filters or even active thermal camouflage. The material is made up of nanocrystals of indium tin oxide, dispersed in a solution.

Recently, Prof. Seung hwan Ko's group in Seoul National University in Republic of Korea demonstrated the visible-to-IR active ands camouflage skin that provides an on-demand cloaking platform both ...

The active camouflage tools in the works today don’t rely on metamaterials, she noted, but the research conducted through the partnership could eventually help develop a similar capability using ...

This gives them an almost otherworldly aura — and to the scientists trying to understand the mechanisms behind their active camouflage, they might as well be.

Not a sci-fi active camo, though. AC:O does have an invisibility power via one of the armor sets, but that's outside the scope of what I'm curious about here (sci-fi camo like in Ghost in the Shell).