New version of Vantablack coating even blacker than original

Phys.org ^ | 11 April 2017 | Bob Yirka, Phys.org

[kosciusko51]

No, the big black dot is the vantablack.

[DannyTN]

I left mine in the sun. It got so hot, it melted to China.

[Libloather]

Betcha Wile E. Coyote could use some of that...

[pepsi_junkie]

:-)

[kosciusko51]

LOL

[mowowie]

I wonder what it would be like coating an entire room with this stuff. Floor, ceiling everything.
Then hang a light bulb from the center of the ceiling and stand there looking around.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

VantaRedacto.

[NativeSon]

Inside of optical equipment - coat my “light bucket”.

[pierrem15]

RF frequencies? If so, it’s instant stealth if it absorbs radar as well as visible light.

[NativeSon]

I would’ve named it SHAFT... John Shaft.

[lbsmith]

That,” he said, “that... is really bad for the eyes.”
It was a ship of classic, simple design, like a flattened salmon, twenty yards long, very clean, very sleek. There was just one remarkable thing about it.

“It’s so... black!” said Ford Prefect. “You can hardly make out its shape... light just seems to fall into it!”

The blackness of it was so extreme that it was almost impossible to tell how close you were standing to it.

“Your eyes just slide off it...” said Ford in wonder.

From Restaurant at the End of the Universe, by Douglas Adams.

[DUMBGRUNT]

“Blacker than black”
Can only be discovered by a an actual black person.

All benefits accrued can only belong to a black person.

The lawsuit by blm to follow.

[doorgunner69]

RF be a much longer wavelength, not tha approriate size nanotubes might not work. Been using resistive gradient coatings for a long time.

[dhs12345]

At 50 miles, no.

[dhs12345]

Also probably follows the rule, if you can see it, it is too late.

[Oscar in Batangas]

Science now has the answer to “What’s the opposite of Vanna White?”

[antidisestablishment]

It does absorb IR, so it’d be easy to spot in that spectrum. Looks like it would be interesting to explore. There’s a commercial equivalent called black 2.0:

https://www.culturehustle.com/collections/frontpage/products/black-v1-0-beta-the-world-s-mattest-flattest-blackest-art-material

[Windflier]

SHAFT... John Shaft.

He's a bad mutha.....*shut your mouth!"