Darkest material

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Darkest material

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Darkest material ever made by man.
http://www.nanitenews.com/research/Rese ... terial.asp

"The material, a thin coating comprised of low-density arrays of loosely vertically-aligned carbon nanotubes, absorbs more than 99.9 percent of light . ."

"The total reflectance of conventional black paint, for example, is between 5 and 10 percent. The darkest manmade material, prior to the discovery by Lin's group, boasted a total reflectance of 0.16 percent to 0.18 percent."
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