Wednesday 16 January 2008

I see a red door and I want to paint it black...

Stand back Emos and Goths. You've long asked for it, and now science has it - a black that is blacker than black.

Nanotube technology has produced a paint so efficient, it absorbs over 99.9% of visible light. Normal black paint has a reflective index of about 5%-10%, while the previous darkest colour was about 0.45%, made from a nickel phosphorus alloy. This one is thirty times darker still.

Check out The Lab for more info.

Mike

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1 comment:

Kathfrog said...

This story sounds familiar - maybe I read the one about the paint being developed as part of a nanotechnology story