The World's Blackest Material

[zora04]

What would you use it for? Besides making blacking.

[Sgt Beavis]

What would you use it for? Besides making blacking.

Any device that is light sensitive. Telescopes come to mind. It's black because it absorbs light instead of reflecting it.

[line-em-up]

Darkness!

[Jose]

has upped its blackness

lol!

[svauto-erotic855]

Well when can I buy it in a spray can?

Never. It is not paint. It is grown onto the material that it is coating and it takes a temp of about 450c to do so or I would have a set of coveralls in their black color. The material is also strictly controled when it comes to exporting it.

[CWO]

dammit

[Strychnine]

Never. It is not paint. It is grown onto the material that it is coating and it takes a temp of about 450c to do so or I would have a set of coveralls in their black color. The material is also strictly controled when it comes to exporting it.

http://www.coatingspromag.com/industry-news/2016/03/paint-it-vanta-black-the-worlds-blackest-material-is-now-in-spray-form

Paint It (Vanta) Black" - The World's Blackest Material is Now in Spray Form

any new applications including consumer products can now benefit from the world's blackest surface coating material, Vantablack, thanks to an innovative new spray paint version believed to be the blackest paint ever created.

Vantablack's nanomaterial structure absorbs virtually all incident light, and was designed to optimize the performance of precision optical systems. Now, the material's developer, UK-based Surrey NanoSystems, has created a version that can be sprayed onto objects - rather than being grown using a chemical vapour deposition (CVD) process.

Called Vantablack S-VIS, the new nanomaterial spray paint greatly widens the applications potential, making it possible to coat much larger and more complex shapes and structures, as well as many new materials including engineering polymers. Even though the material is applied using a simple spraying process, it traps 99.8% of incident light hitting its surface.

[orphan Shelby]

dammit

Double dammit.

[svauto-erotic855]

http://www.coatingspromag.com/indust...-in-spray-form

Read the fine print. It is not the same stuff, it still requires baking at a high temp and export approval from the government in the UK. Trust me on this, I have been looking for a way.

[stephen4785]

Blast from the blast. just the other day I was singing that song to the only black friend I have.