The blackest Black!

Post date: 11-Aug-2016 04:37:28

Vantablack, created and engineered to near perfection by Surrey Nanosystems created a material so dark, nearly no detectable can escape it.

The name stands for Vertically Aligned Nanotube Array black and it is currently the darkest material in the world. The material is lined with billions of aligned and equally spaced ” high-aspect-ratio carbon nanotubes (CNTs)”, say the creators of Vantablack.

The material allows photons, or other radiation, to pass between the CNTs where the tubes cause the radiation (light or otherwise) to reflect repeatedly until nearly all of the radiation is absorbed and transform into heat.