Developed the blackest material in the world
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the darkest material on the planet looks like absolute emptiness.
According to the portal , the engineers were able to create a special material that is 10 times blacker than all that has ever been made before. Unique material made from vertically aligned carbon nanotubes grown by professionals on a pre-etched with chlorine aluminum foil. It is known that foil is able to capture more than 99.96 percent of any directional light, making it the darkest material in the history of science.
Darker than black
Despite the fact that the black material on the planet was designed by Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics Massachusetts Institute of technology, black foil took part in the exhibition of the new York stock exchange in an exhibit called “the Redemption of vanity”. According to estimates, the approximate cost is $ 2 million and can be used in optics, reducing unwanted glare in order to help modern telescopes in the search for new exoplanets.
According to the researchers from MIT, they are not going to create sorcery material, working on carbon nanotubes for electrically conductive materials in order to improve their thermal properties. However, when you try to grow a nanotube on a thin layer of aluminium, experts suddenly find themselves faced with the problem of aluminium oxide when exposed to air, as is often the oxide layer acts as an insulator, blocking the necessary electricity and heat. During the solution, the researchers were able to find the right solution in sodium chloride ions which corrode the surface of aluminum and dissolved the oxide layer.
Finding that soaked aluminum foil when you place it in an oxygen-free environment and a special furnace for growing carbon nanotubes contributes to the development of the material, the researchers were surprised thermal and electrical properties of the obtained substance. However, the most unexpected discovery for scientists was the color of a substance, the optical measurement of reflection which showed an incredible result — matter absorbed greater than 99.995% of all incoming light. In fact, if the material contained any bulges or other features, they would be simply invisible, being completely hidden by the black emptiness.
the Material created in the experiment for growing nanotubes, was the blackest in the world, reflecting only 3% of the total incoming surface of the light
Scientists are not quite sure of the mechanism contributing to the emergence of a completely opaque material. So, one of the experts involved in the problem of creation of carbon nanotubes, says that the color of the created matter relates to the combination of actions perpetrated on etched aluminum. In addition, a large number of nanotubes is able to convert the main part of the incoming light into heat, almost reflecting it back and thus gaining a black shade.
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