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Engineers Create the Blackest Material Yet (phys.org)
schwit1 writes: Researchers have created the least reflective material ever made, using as inspiration the scales on the all-white cyphochilus beetle. The result was an extremely tiny nanoparticle rod resting on an equally tiny nanoparticle sphere (30 nm diameter) which was able to absorb approximately 98 to 99 percent of the light in the spectrum between 400 and 1,400nm, which meant it was able to absorb approximately 26 percent more light than any other known material — and it does so from all angles and polarizations.
I'm wondering if this could be used to improve the efficency of solar thermal generators.
So this is what Disaster Area painted their ship with.
How much black could it be? None more black.
Blackity Black Black?
I come here for the love
As I recall the previous blackest material ever was already being mass produced for various buyers, how's this one compare in that respect?
A bullet may have your name on it but splash damage is addressed "To whom it may concern."
I'd like to see how black it really is.
Well you could try a black hole but somehow I don't think you would survive, much less the time it would take to get to the nearest one, although I do think the number 42 figures in there somewhere. ;-)
There ain't no such thing as proprietary standards only proprietary formats. Standards are by definition open.
It's blacker.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Just sayin...
Please, enough with the Jeb Bush jokes already.
The man's allowed to fail on his own.
Jeesh!
I bet Derek Zoolander will look great in this on the runway!
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. Polar Scope Align for iOS
What are the practical applications for a breakthrough like this? Other than for a government that wants to do some redacting of their documents.
When I was in high school in the 80's and was taught the Wien and black body radiation model, our teacher told us that there is way to produce a "black body surface" which absorbs virtually all incoming radiation (more than the TFA:s 98-99%), and that is to make a chamber with the inside walls painted black and to drill a hole in one of the walls of the chamber. That orifice will be a very, very good approximation of a black body.
Granted, it's kind of hard to construct objects with orifices only...
How much blacker?
A bullet may have your name on it but splash damage is addressed "To whom it may concern."
is going to use this stuff to make a Halloween costume this year.
How much different is it than this?
http://www.independent.co.uk/n...
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It's so black, it's offended at the racist joke I was trying to come up with referencing fried chicken, being good at dancing, and naming girls with names that end in "isha"...
1. Possibly could be used as part of stealthy tech for drone and airplane design.
2. Immediately draws all LAPD officers within a 10-block radius.
"Entangle" two photons, send one to be absorbed into this black material. Measure the others spin angle.... ooo look it still has a spin angle, yet the "entangled" photon no longer exists!
So much for entanglement.
What do you mean, "so much for entanglement?" Your thought experiment says nothing about it. Why would absorbing one entangled photon stop the other from having a spin? There's no such thing as a photon without spin.
Ergo I've proved Einstein wrong, with my "spooky paint color transfer effect"....
Have you ever considered the possibility that you're not smart enough to comprehend that there are things you don't comprehend?
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
I bet it's not as black as our Mam's Black Pudding. One day she made a Black Pudding so black, even t'white bits were black.
:)
And if you get that reference you must be as old as me
And your extremely tiny nanoparticle rod resting on equally tiny nanoparticle spheres doesn't impress her.
Have you ever considered the possibility that you have no sense of humour? Because the comment you're responding to looked like a joke to me....
"I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"
Still not as black as my ex-wife's heart.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
Scoffs at your somewhat blackish material, awaits actual wearable black hole.
Pretending this is my office full of bitter coworkers..
- Too black to see.
- That's the blackest black ever, fam.
- That's blacker than my cousin Femi.
What percentage of those who have gone this black are able to go back?
Blacker than those, but not as black as the souls of Hillary Clinton or Dick Cheney. Perhaps the same color as Donald Trump's soul, but that's hard to tell because for some reason he's had his covered with gold sequins.
It's a joke but not the funny kind. The OP actually appears to be serious given his response.
Eleven. That's one blacker.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
only hackers have true black dye tubs
lose != loose
This must be how they made the Disaster Area stunt ships
Andy Warhol got it right / Everybody gets the limelight
Andy Warhol got it wrong / Fifteen minutes is too long.
Your comment was almost, I mean this close to,.....nevermind just please stop breathing to save the air for others that need it more.
Can you point which of those wretched individuals you love so much you think their souls are not darked than the material in the article?
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
But are these cups purple or pink?https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=cup+purple+pink
Obama isn't "black" at all, doesn't have the american black experience in his upbringing. He fooled millions of black voters. In fact, the phrase "rare species of wigger" comes to mind
The particles absorb photons over a wide band, violet through 'thermal'. Presumably the energy is dissipated as though from a black body unless it is removed by conduction. For example when illuminated by visible light they would radiate mostly in the infrared (unless the absorbed energy is removed by conduction) and would be seen to glow in infrared.
If they could be tweaked to absorb better at a wavelength that is best transmitted by human tissue and attached to an antibody that attaches to cancer cells they might be used as antennae to heat and destroy the cells.
Nate
Where are the photos of this new blackest materiel yet?!
Are the creators of this material even aware of Vantablack? Their new material seems far inferior ...
Can someone turn on the light? I can't see where my luggage is.
Sleep your way to a whiter smile...date a dentist!
This kind of thing is a black art, practiced only by the darkest of souls, out of the light, in the shadows. Probably while eating black licorice and drinking black coffee.
You simply can't trust people like that.
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
"It's like, how much more black could this be? and the answer is none. None more black."
What if.... they combined the blackest material ever, with the most metal material ever?!??
should we instead use the term "dirty" or "shitty" instead of "black" for color of evil soul ? Or is that an offence to all the healthy normal stools of the world?
I was going for this but I think the AC's "3/5ths blacker" might win.
A bullet may have your name on it but splash damage is addressed "To whom it may concern."
I thought this was going to be some new videos from the Apollo.
Star Trek transporters are just 3d printers.
Obama isn't "black" at all, doesn't have the american black experience in his upbringing. He fooled millions of black voters. In fact, the phrase "rare species of wigger" comes to mind
Yes, this material should be renamed as the most African-American material ever.
Star Trek transporters are just 3d printers.
I call BS. How could you take a picture of these 'black things' since they do NOT reflect light back to the camera's sensor. /.'rs are so easily fooled....
Hypothesis: we have discovered dark matter. (kidding)
Star Trek transporters are just 3d printers.