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Vantablack: The Darkest Material On Earth
Patented: History of Inventions
Iga, You Can't Really See It On, You've Got to Stand in Front of It
The material you have there is original, alligned material. We don't actually manufacture that any more because it doesn't really have any commercial value in our space and automotive applications. But what you would do, you would bend the forest of carbonalo tubes, and so they start to interact with light very differently. And those ones would be quite fragile. The interesting thing on that is, if you take that object that you've got there and you look right across it, you'll see some reflection coming back to you. That's the photons bouncing off the tips of the carbonano tubes at a very shallow angle. Now, the materials you manufacture to day have none of that there. They
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