Black Blacker Than Vantablack
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Black Blacker Than Vantablack
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#2Would these coatings be useful in solar panels? Does the energy trapped/absorbed by these CNTs turn into heat and does it transfer easily to the material its applied to?
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#3At least they aren't copper nanotubes ;)
OK I'll get my coat.
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#4Would these coatings be useful in solar panels? Does the energy trapped/absorbed by these CNTs turn into heat and does it transfer easily to the material its applied to?
I can't say anything specific to this specific black, but the previous blackest black all had degradation problems which made them unsuitable.
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#5I love carbon and carbon materials.
Here's an amazing clip showing Vantablack. It's so dark it looks like an optical illusion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fg2x0L4YAuU
And apparently this stuff is blacker!
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#6Would these coatings be useful in solar panels? Does the energy trapped/absorbed by these CNTs turn into heat and does it transfer easily to the material its applied to?
Going from 99% black to 99.999% black turns out not to represent that much more efficiency. It's the difference between absorbing 99 of 100 joules of energy vs 99.999 of 100 joules of energy; unless the rest of your system is effectively 100% efficient, it may not even be a noticeable change. It is very likely that other engineering concerns, not least of which is price, is going to dominate this question.
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#7Would these coatings be useful in solar panels? Does the energy trapped/absorbed by these CNTs turn into heat and does it transfer easily to the material its applied to?
More likely to find use in something like optics, or cameras, where removing any and all stray light is desirable to reduce noise.
There are a few uses for radiative heat exchangers, so its possible it could also find use there.
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#8Come on journalists, you say they published it, but you don't link to it. Where is the whitepaper?
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#9Quick, before Anish Kapoor finds out.
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#10Come on journalists, you say they published it, but you don't link to it. Where is the whitepaper?
Would love to see it! I don't see anything referenced on Prof Wardel's sites yet unfortunately:
http://necstlab.mit.edu/publications
http://isn.mit.edu/strategic-research-areas