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Vantablack: The Darkest Material On Earth

Patented: History of Inventions

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What Is Vanter Black?

Vander black was originally a super black material grown from carbonano tubes over line to carbonano tubes and carbonano tubes of these really tiny nana materials straw structures. Light or photons, hit the surface structure, and they get tracked within it, and they bounce round, and they're absorbed and dissipated as heataand substrait. It's a pure optical structure that has no inhibition for the photons to get into it. So what happens with normal black? Because you think about black, like i’m looking at my phone, for example, and its it's black de photon. What happens with vander black? The coating can't efficiently absorb photons in the same way

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