New coating hides temperature change from infrared cameras. An ultrathin coating upends a ubiquitous physics phenomenon of materials related to thermal radiation: The hotter an object gets, the brighter it glows. The new coating -- engineered from samarium nickel oxide, a unique tunable material -- employs a bit of temperature trickery. Source 6j.
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