I am looking for paint the fluoresces under infrared lighting. I use digital infrared cameras to capture wildlife for research, and I want to use a paint on an animal (hippopotamus) that would fluoresce as they walk by the camera. Do you know any company that might sale something like this?
You are clearly working on a very interesting and hopefully not a dangerous project. I'm curious where the research is carried out and how you intend to apply the paint to the hippo's. I presume you first tranquilize the poor animal and then apply the paint?
IR illumination >700 nm wavelength: If you need a compound that will show up under IR illumination as used by the military, there are companies that make pigments for camouflage purposes. Off-hand I don't know the names of these pigment suppliers, but a search on Google might lead you to some. Paint companies such as Hentzen Coatings and Sherwin Williams are the major suppliers to the military of camouflage coatings, but the coatings themselves are polyurethanes and probably not suitable for your purposes. However, you can call their paint laboratories and ask who supplies their camouflage pigments. I believe you will be able to add these pigments to an acrylic latex paint to achieve the results you require.
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