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[Axiarus]

A simple search for Vantablack pulled up multiple articles about it over the years. Also, the headline "A new carbon nanotube composite absorbs 99.9% of visible light" is not even correct. Vantablack came out in 2014. Is that new? Why is this allowed?

Scientists have created a material so dark that it can't be processed by the human eye

Carbon nanotubes are often touted as one of the potential successors to modern-day silicon but apparently that's not the only thing they excel at. A British company by...

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A new version of the world's blackest material is so dark that spectrometers can't measure it

In 2014, UK company Surrey NanoSystems created a material so dark that it absorbed 99.96 percent of the light that touched it. Now, scientists have created a...

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MIT engineers accidentally create a new king of darkness

Engineers from MIT have crafted a material that is 10 times blacker than any other material previously reported. Best yet, they weren't even trying.

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Scientists created a paint so black it makes cars look like silhouettes

A team at Nipsea Group, working through its Color Technology and core R&D unit in Shanghai, has developed what it describes as an "ultra-black coating" capable of...

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[Julio Franco]

The Vantablack color part is not new. What’s new is that the researchers claim they’ve made a coating that can be applied using conventional automotive paint processes while maintaining similar ultra-black properties. The engineering challenge has shifted from making it darker to making it practical. That's what today's story is about.