Vantablack: The Blackest Black!!!!
Do you know that the vantablack holds a world record of the darkest man-made material? YES, it is. So, it’s quite fascinating to learn about its extraordinary properties, applications, and how it’s made, isn’t it? Meet Vantablack here. It is the darkest material, a ‘ Byronic black ’ and it absorbs almost all visible light. It may be viewed as a super-black coating made of ‘n’ number of carbon nanotubes! Image Source: https://www.cnet.com/pictures/vantablack-swallows-everything-its-painted-on/ Image: Tourists Fell into This Ultra-Black Artwork That Looks Like a Cartoon Hole Image Source: https://www.sciencealert.com/somebody-actually-fell-into-ultra-black-artwork- looks-fake-hole-vantablack-anish-kapoor History: It was invented in 2014 in the United Kingdom by British company Surrey Nanosystems . This name is an acronym of V ertically A ligned N ano T ube A rray B lack. It was originally developed for space applications and for optical