Worlds blackest material is now paintable

[August]

This is amazing!

The conventional form of Vantablack is made up of a forest of light-absorbing carbon nanotubes, and is applied to surfaces via a chemical vapour deposition process. Once in place, it traps 99.965 percent of incoming light – that's enough to make three-dimensional objects which are coated in it appear as two-dimensional voids, across a wide range of viewing angles. The new version, known as Vantablack S-VIS, is almost as good – it traps 99.8 percent of ultraviolet, visible and infrared light. According to Surrey Nanosystems, that's 17 times less reflective than the super-black paint used in the Hubble telescope.

http://www.gizmag.com/vantablack-s-v...default-widget

[Buddahaid]

Interesting. At first I thought you meant it could be painted onto.

[August]

Originally Posted by Buddahaid

Interesting. At first I thought you meant it could be painted onto.

It is indeed paintable onto other objects.

Now, in order to expand its possible applications, the material is available in a convenient spray-on form.

[fumo30]

No military application yet?
Aren't army jerks usually the first to make use of every new invention?

[Betonov]

I am going to paint a wall with it and then glue glitter at random places and pretend I'm at the Enterprise observation deck

[Cybermat47]

Originally Posted by Betonov

I am going to paint a wall with it and then glue glitter at random places and pretend I'm at the Enterprise observation deck

Isn't that just the sensible thing to do?

Presumably August will use it to get cotton wool to look like smoke for his model trains.

I'll be using it to make sure all the black things in my house are properly black, not the crappy pseudo-black stuff that you get these days. I mean, my chair legs aren't black, they're just super extremely very dark grey

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Betonov

I am going to paint a wall with it and then glue glitter at random places and pretend I'm at the Enterprise observation deck

Paint a circle and claim to be the first to own a black hole.

[August]

Originally Posted by Betonov

I am going to paint a wall with it and then glue glitter at random places and pretend I'm at the Enterprise observation deck

Or you can pretend you're in 2001 "It's full of STARS!"



BTW this 90 seconds time constraint between posts bites the bit one.

[Rockstar]

Originally Posted by Betonov

I am going to paint a wall with it and then glue glitter at random places and pretend I'm at the Enterprise observation deck

What a nerd

[August]

Originally Posted by fumo30

No military application yet?
Aren't army jerks usually the first to make use of every new invention?

Army "jerks"?

[fumo30]

Originally Posted by August

Army "jerks"?

Australians sometimes call military personel A.J:s(Army Jerk)
Sure I'm not an aussie my self, but I like that expression anyway.

...I want to add that I've been an A.J. myself too, and I'm not ashamed about it.