{"id":216934,"date":"2025-07-01T06:19:24","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T11:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/engineering-nano-clouds-that-can-change-color-temperature-and-outwit-heat-sensors"},"modified":"2025-07-01T06:19:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T11:19:24","slug":"engineering-nano-clouds-that-can-change-color-temperature-and-outwit-heat-sensors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/engineering-nano-clouds-that-can-change-color-temperature-and-outwit-heat-sensors","title":{"rendered":"Engineering nano-clouds that can change color, temperature and outwit heat sensors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/engineering-nano-clouds-that-can-change-color-temperature-and-outwit-heat-sensors.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How does a cloud stay cool under direct sunlight\u2013\u2013or seem to vanish in infrared? In nature, phenomena like white cumulus clouds, gray storm systems, and even the hollow hairs of polar bears offer remarkable lessons in balancing temperature, color and invisibility. Inspired by these atmospheric marvels, researchers have now created a nanoscale \u201ccloud\u201d metasurface capable of dynamically switching between white and gray states\u2014cooling or heating on demand\u2013\u2013all while evading thermal detection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How does a cloud stay cool under direct sunlight\u2013\u2013or seem to vanish in infrared? In nature, phenomena like white cumulus clouds, gray storm systems, and even the hollow hairs of polar bears offer remarkable lessons in balancing temperature, color and invisibility. Inspired by these atmospheric marvels, researchers have now created a nanoscale \u201ccloud\u201d metasurface capable [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216934","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}