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Nanotubes Form The Darkest Material Yet Created

Posted by samzenpus on from the none-more-black dept.

toxcspdrmn writes "Bad news for Spinal Tap fans. The BBC reports that researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, have produced the darkest known material by manufacturing "forests" of carbon nanotubes. This forms a surface that absorbs or scatters 99.9% of all incidental light."

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  1. Re:Oh wow - an darker shade of black... by ZorbaTHut · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Just click here, then turn your screen off.

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  2. Re:Superblack? Hardly. by geekoid · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Are you being funny, or are you really that ignorant?
    I mean there area at least three HUGE problems with what you posted.

    1)"I color sampled the image of this stuff,"
    That means it's limited by your equipment.

    2)"I can make a blacker square in Paint.net"

    That's not a material. Plus it's probably actually darker anyways.

    3)"Call me back when you reach less than #000000 and I'll be impressed."

    Just because the computer allows you #000000 doesn't means that's what you monitor shows, and I guarantee you that's not the actually color your printer prints. It is limited by the maximum darkness your INK can be, and the darkest ink doesn't even reach #000000.

    All that is secondary to the fact that #000000 isn't as black as something can be. It's a limitation on HARDWARE.

    Another genius .net developer.

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