Blackest material ever created

**Mekk** · 16th January 2008, 15:15

US researchers said they have made the darkest material on Earth, a substance so black it absorbs more than 99.9% of light.

Made from tiny tubes of carbon standing on end, this material is almost 30 times darker than a carbon substance used by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology as the current benchmark of blackness.

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I want leathers coated in this stuff.

**Oakie** · 16th January 2008, 15:17

Even blacker than the Ugandan dentist we used to have in Oamaru? Wow!

**vifferman** · 16th January 2008, 15:22

Originally Posted by Mekk

I want leathers coated in this stuff.

They'd be more than a tad warm....

**Jantar** · 16th January 2008, 15:23

I want a bike coated in this stuff.

**Mekk** · 16th January 2008, 15:25

Originally Posted by vifferman

They'd be more than a tad warm....

Perfect for Arthur's Pass.

**oldrider** · 16th January 2008, 16:47

I wonder if it can soak up radar beams?

Imagine the first "stealth" Tiger in the world!

Eat your heart out.....

Not that it would effect me but I have friends.

John.

**Gubb** · 16th January 2008, 16:58

I'm lookin' at it, and i'm thinkin' to myself, "how can this be any more black?", and the answer is none. None more black.

**P38** · 16th January 2008, 17:09

Only in America!

Well it seems this stuff is Blacker than the Blackest Black thing on the Blackest Black night.

Bet the bloody Russians have a Blacker Black thing though

**Brett** · 16th January 2008, 17:10

That is very cool. I wonder who has the whitest/most reflective/brightest reflecting substance?

**Sully60** · 16th January 2008, 17:12

That'll sell well in the Hutt

**SlashWylde** · 16th January 2008, 17:22

Yeah. 'Disaster Area' used this stuff to coat the outside of their stunt space ships before crashing them into the nearest sun at the culmination of their concerts, to create solar flares.

Soooo black....Sooo cool.