All blacks are not created equal...a team at Rensselaer and Rice University have created the world's darkest material. Plain old black paint reflects between 5 and 10 percent of incident light; the new material reflects only 0.045%. (via animamundi)
All blacks are not created equal...a team at Rensselaer and Rice University have created the world's darkest material. Plain old black paint reflects between 5 and 10 percent of incident light; the new material reflects only 0.045%. (via animamundi)
This entry was published on June 16, 2008 at 05:50 pm.
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