Thursday, January 17, 2008

Nanotubes Form The Darkest Material Yet Created

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday January 17, @03:08AM
from the none-more-black dept.
toxcspdrmn writes "Bad news for Spinal Tap fans. The BBC reports that researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, have produced the darkest known material by manufacturing "forests" of carbon nanotubes. This forms a surface that absorbs or scatters 99.9% of all incidental light."

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