What are the hopeful uses for making ever more absorbing black materials?
New carbon nanotube-metal hierarchical material is 10x darker than Vantablack
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#12What are the hopeful uses for making ever more absorbing black materials?
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#14Maybe we now can get true black on an LCD screen?
http://soft-matter.seas.harvard.edu/index.php/Phase_transiti...
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#15How do these materials both perform against radar?
Will we be seeing them as stealth paints on planes or satellites?
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#16What are the hopeful uses for making ever more absorbing black materials?
reducing stray photons in instruments, you only want those that go through your lens array, not those bouncing off the housing.
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#17Serious question: How do these materials both perform against radar? Will we be seeing them as stealth paints on planes or satellites?
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#18Serious question: How do these materials both perform against radar? Will we be seeing them as stealth paints on planes or satellites?
Follow-up serious question: if I paint my car with this stuff, can a policeman tag me with his radar gun? If I wear clothes impregnated with it, would it confuse a "smart" surveillance camera? I'm also thinking if I used it as war paint, a facial recognition cam would probably be awfully confused by what appears to be a hole in my face.
Also, if i were to dimple an an entire plane’s body like a golf ball, and paint it with this... how stealthy would that be?
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#19What are the hopeful uses for making ever more absorbing black materials?
Re: New carbon nanotube-metal hierarchical material is 10x darker than Vantablack
#20Maybe we now can get true black on an LCD screen?