Carbon Nanotubes Used To Create Darkest Black In The World
- 10 years ago
Scientists at the British technology company Surrey Nanosystems have created a material that is the darkest shade of black ever with the help of carbon nanotubes. The material, which was grown on aluminum foil and named Vantablack, absorbs 99 point 96 percent of the light that touches it, making any features like folds or wrinkles invisible to the human eye.
Scientists at the British technology company Surrey NanoSystems have created a material that is the darkest shade of black ever with the help of carbon nanotubes.
The material, which was grown on aluminum foil and named Vantablack, absorbs 99 point 96 percent of the light that touches it, making any features like folds or wrinkles invisible to the human eye.
Stephen Westland, professor of colour science and technology at the University of Leeds is quoted as saying: “Unless you are looking at a black hole, nobody has actually seen something which has no light. These new materials, they are pretty much as black as we can get, almost as close to a black hole as we could imagine.”
Vantablack could be used to calibrate cameras so they can take photographs of some of the oldest objects in the known universe.
It is able to conduct seven and half times more heat than copper, and has ten times more tensile strength than steel.
Scientists at the British technology company Surrey NanoSystems have created a material that is the darkest shade of black ever with the help of carbon nanotubes.
The material, which was grown on aluminum foil and named Vantablack, absorbs 99 point 96 percent of the light that touches it, making any features like folds or wrinkles invisible to the human eye.
Stephen Westland, professor of colour science and technology at the University of Leeds is quoted as saying: “Unless you are looking at a black hole, nobody has actually seen something which has no light. These new materials, they are pretty much as black as we can get, almost as close to a black hole as we could imagine.”
Vantablack could be used to calibrate cameras so they can take photographs of some of the oldest objects in the known universe.
It is able to conduct seven and half times more heat than copper, and has ten times more tensile strength than steel.