A team of MIT engineers announced that they have found a material that absorbs 99.995% of the incident light, which is even darker than the stunning Vantaplak created by Suri Nano Systems to absorb 99.965% of the light.
The observatory of the Future Observatory in Dubai said that it may be surprising that the super-dark material is able to absorb light is how the researchers arrived at it. And started to grow carbon nanotubes.
"I remember noticing how hard it was before the development of carbon nanotubes, and that it became the darkest and darkest, so I decided to measure its visual reflectivity," researcher Kihang Kui told MIT News.
The team then discovered that it had found the darkest substance yet, and detailed its discovery in a study published in the journal ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces.
But as much as the darkness of this substance, researcher Bryan Wardel believes that it will not retain the title of “darkest substance” forever. “The goal of reaching the darkest substance in existence is a constantly renewed goal,” he said. In order to understand the basic mechanisms, we are able to geometry of the material, which is not yet hake hake ».