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Carbon Nanotube Forest Camouflages 3-D Objects

Caption: Scanning electron microscope images show a tank etched out of silicon, with and without a carbon nanotube coating (top row). When the same structures are viewed under white light with an optical microscope (bottom row), the nanotube coating camouflages the tank structure against a black background.

Credit: L. J. Guo et al, University of Michigan/Applied Physics Letters

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