Posted on 09/14/2019 9:56:55 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
You might think you already know black – even super-black Vantablack, previously the blackest material known to science – but researchers just came up with a material that takes black to a new level of blackness.
The new, as-yet-unnamed ultra-black material is made from vertically aligned carbon nanotubes (CNTs), microscopic carbon strings that are a little like a fuzzy forest of tiny trees, according to the team behind the project.
And here's the rub – this CNT material can absorb more than 99.995 percent of incoming light, beating the 99.96 percent that Vantablack is able to absorb.
MIT artist-in-residence Diemut Strebe has worked with the researchers to coat a 16.78-carat natural yellow diamond, estimated to be worth $2 million, in the ultrablack material.
What should be a bright, sparkling, highly reflective gem ends up a lightless void.
"Because of the extremely high light absorptive qualities of the CNTs, any object, in this case a large diamond coated with CNTs, becomes a kind of black hole absent of shadows,
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencealert.com ...
Long ago it was, 'if it don't go; chrome it'.
Soon, a CNT Black car! CNT Black catsuit?
I’m going to report you for posting racist propaganda.
And here I thought that Shaun King and Rachael Dolezal had the monopoly on that.
That sounds kinda.....
Diversity Diamond:
Viewers are totally unable to see any brilliance at all
What would it be like standing in a room covered in this stuff with a small 40 watt bulb hanging in the middle...
Carbon nanotubes are the new black.
Warm?
Maybe it should be renamed a color of color....
so ya know not to offend anybody..
I asked the same question a while back with the earlier ultimate blackness and got a similar response.
what do you mean warm?
In reference to warm: I think the poster means is it warm since it is capable of absorbing virtually all of the impinging energy.
makes sense...thanks
It will first be used in Golf Clubs with the promise of taking 0.75 strokes off you score.
It will sell millions.
A white diamond wearing blackface?
That’s racist!
The material vaporizes in the absence of popeyes chicken sandwiches
standing in a room covered in this stuff
Some interesting effects of being in a totally soundproof room.
Sensory deprivation? People pay$$$ for that sort of thing.
It's already been invented. They call it an "eraser".....
You would walk into a wall not knowing it was a wall. Just some force field you could not see that was stopping you.
Your only focus point would be the light and you might want to tone that down to 0.5 watts 'cause it will be bright.
You will be in the Twilight Zone.
And here I thought that Shaun King and Rachael Dolezal had the monopoly on that.
Were they able to pass(fail?) the brown paper bag test?
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