{"id":204454,"date":"2025-01-24T18:23:16","date_gmt":"2025-01-25T00:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/new-electromagnetic-material-draws-inspiration-from-the-color-shifting-chameleon"},"modified":"2025-01-24T18:23:16","modified_gmt":"2025-01-25T00:23:16","slug":"new-electromagnetic-material-draws-inspiration-from-the-color-shifting-chameleon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/new-electromagnetic-material-draws-inspiration-from-the-color-shifting-chameleon","title":{"rendered":"New electromagnetic material draws inspiration from the color-shifting chameleon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-electromagnetic-material-draws-inspiration-from-the-color-shifting-chameleon3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The chameleon, a lizard known for its color-changing skin, is the inspiration behind a new electromagnetic material that could someday make vehicles and aircraft \u201cinvisible\u201d to radar.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.ads3499\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> today in the journal <i>Science Advances<\/i>, a team of UC Berkeley engineers has developed a tunable metamaterial microwave absorber that can switch between absorbing, transmitting or reflecting microwaves on demand by mimicking the chameleon\u2019s color-changing mechanism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA key discovery was the ability to achieve both broadband absorption and high transmission in a single structure, offering adaptability in dynamic environments,\u201d said Grace Gu, principal investigator of the study and assistant professor of mechanical engineering. \u201cThis flexibility has wide-ranging applications, from <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/stealth+technology\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">stealth technology<\/a> to advanced communication systems and energy harvesting.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The chameleon, a lizard known for its color-changing skin, is the inspiration behind a new electromagnetic material that could someday make vehicles and aircraft \u201cinvisible\u201d to radar. As reported today in the journal Science Advances, a team of UC Berkeley engineers has developed a tunable metamaterial microwave absorber that can switch between absorbing, transmitting or [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,38,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-engineering","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}