Blackest is the new black

Blackest is the new black Scientists have developed a material so dark that you cant see it... Puritans, Goths, avant-garde artists, hell-raising poets and fashion icon Coco Chanel all saw something special in it. Now black, that most enigmatic of colours, has become even darker and more mysterious.A British company has produced a strange, alien material so black that it absorbs all but 0.035 per cent of visual light, setting a new world record. To stare at the super black coating made of carbon nanotubes each 10,000 times thinner than a human hair is an odd experience. It is so dark that the human eye cannot understand what it is seeing. Shapes and contours are lost, leaving nothing but an apparent abyss.If it was used to make one of Chanels little black dresses, the wearers head and limbs might appear to float incorporeally around a dress-shaped hole.Actual applications are more serious, enabling astronomical cameras, telescopes and infrared scanning systems to function more effectively. Then there are the military uses that the materials maker, Surrey NanoSystems, is not allowed to discuss.The nanotube material, named Vantablack, has been grown on sheets of aluminium foil by the Newhaven-based company. While the sheets may be crumpled into miniature hills and valleys, this landscape disappears on areas covered by it.You expect to see the hills and all you can see its like black, like a hole, like theres nothing there. It just looks so strange, said Ben Jensen, the firms chief technical officer.Source httpwww.independent.co.uknewsscienceblackest-is-the-new-black-scientists-have-developed-a-material-so-dark-that-you-cant-see-it-9602504.htmlCirro il Cloud Web ERP CRM CROSS-NETWORK - Client Relationship Management Italiano. I vantaggi di un software Erp con la semplicit e convenienza del Cloud Computing. Il software pensato e ottimizzato per il Web. Cirro, il portale delle offerte con coupon e delle promozioni dedicato esclusivamente alle aziende. Su Cirro puoi trovare offerte per la tua azienda a prezzi scontati e vantaggiosi. Cirro, il portale delle offerte con coupon e delle promozioni dedicato esclusivamente alle aziende. Su Cirro puoi trovare offerte per la tua azienda a prezzi scontati e vantaggiosi.