The blackest black material ever created

Orb

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Came out quite awhile ago but as I recently posted a few tech articles thought this one would really interest many.
Basically new process-material means it can absorb 99.96% of light, this is pretty amazing and if woven into being clothes would in theory make anyone 2 Dimensional in the eyes of others.

(Phys.org) —A British company says it has scored a breakthrough in the world's darkest material. Surrey NanoSystems describes its development as not just a black material but super-black.
They are calling it Vantablack, and they are singling out its ability to be applied to lightweight, temperature-sensitive structures such as aluminum, absorbing 99.96% of incident radiation; that is, they said, believed to be the highest ever recorded.
This coating is made of carbon nanotubes – "each 10,000 times thinner than a human hair," wrote Ian Johnston in The Independent on Sunday. It's not what you see; it's what you don't see.
If fact, you see nothing, period. "It is so dark that the human eye cannot understand what it is seeing," wrote Johnston. "Shapes and contours are lost, leaving nothing but an apparent abyss."

Here is the link for the whole article:
http://phys.org/news/2014-07-surrey-nanosystems-super-black-material.html

Youtube video of it (ignore if the video mentions blackholes lol; some articles going round comparing it to that for light absorption).

Great material.
Anyway nano technology is really going to provide some interesting tech (ages ago I posted one relating to paint and solar energy, amongst other techs involving lights and paints again for other uses).
Cheers
Orb
 

LL21

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Hey Orb,

Thanks! They finally invented something better for using around the edges of CDs!
 

Orb

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Hey Orb,

Thanks! They finally invented something better for using around the edges of CDs!

Hah, must be a way to use it in high end audio :)
Seriously though be interesting if it makes it beyond scientific/military community products to very high end/consumer specialist cameras/telescopes/etc.

Whatmore, nice find :)
Must be mentally bizarre staring at that block of Vantablack in real life rather than just via video (still looks kinda weird).
Cheers
Orb
 

LL21

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Hah, must be a way to use it in high end audio :)
Seriously though be interesting if it makes it beyond scientific/military community products to very high end/consumer specialist cameras/telescopes/etc.

Whatmore, nice find :)
Must be mentally bizarre staring at that block of Vantablack in real life rather than just via video (still looks kinda weird).
Cheers
Orb

...here's another one...you could paint your speakers 'vantablack'...talk about speakers that 'disappear'!!!
 

jahnghalt

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Sonex (half) Deafness

"Must be mentally bizarre staring at that block of Vantablack" - reminds me of that stuff they use in recording studios (forget the name) - and which was once fashionable to use in live-end, dead-end listening rooms.

(Sonex!!)

I once stuck my (one) ear up against a sonex-ed wall - very weird - thought I'd gone half-deaf for a moment.
 

JackD201

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...here's another one...you could paint your speakers 'vantablack'...talk about speakers that 'disappear'!!!


Put a manhole sized disc on a sidewalk and see people walk around it LOL.
 

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