YeinJee's Discovery Journal » Popular Science http://yeinjee.com/discovery Fun and discovery blog, with funny junk and bizarre stuff, as well as knowledge sharing in science and technology, history, geography, mysterious stuff, internet, gadgets, and the latest buzz. Tue, 24 Mar 2009 05:08:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Blacker than black http://yeinjee.com/discovery/blacker-than-black/ http://yeinjee.com/discovery/blacker-than-black/#comments Fri, 25 Jan 2008 07:19:50 +0000 Yein Jee http://yeinjee.com/discovery/blacker-than-black/ A research team at Rice University in Houston, US, has claimed that they have made the darkest material on Earth, a substance so black it absorbs more than 99.9 percent of light.

Made from tiny tubes of carbon standing on end, this material is almost 30 times darker than a carbon substance used by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology as the current benchmark of blackness.

And the material is close to the long-sought ideal black, which could absorb all colors of light and reflect none. [Reuters, via Neatorama]

I wonder if there is something like ‘whiter than white’ as well.

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