It’s called Vantablack, and it’s one of the darkest substances on Earth. Vantablack is made from carbon nanotubes, which are tiny carbon cylinders with walls as thin as one atom. These ...

Vantablack is essentially a forest of carbon nanotubes on an aluminium foil. Surrey NanoSystems, the company that created Vantablack, presumably to look after its trade secrets, is rather coy ...

Creating the Vantablack coating starts with "catalyst particles" no bigger than a nanometre or two in diameter, which, after being saturated with gas, grow into carbon nanotubes. For each square ...

He was working with a material called carbon nanotubes, the same stuff used to make Vantablack, though he was using them to boost the thermal and electrical properties of materials like aluminum.

Vantablack consists of a dense forest of carbon nanotubes suspended in plasma that's coated on materials like aluminum (magnified above) for easy application. | Surrey Nanosystems Imagine the darkness ...

The nanotubes that make up Vantablack must be grown in the Surrey ... This is due to the fact that each carbon nanotube is individual, and has almost no mass at all. Plus, most of the material ...

MIT engineers have created a blackest black coating from carbon nanotubes that is reportedly 10 times darker than any material created before, including Vantablack. The coating, which is made from ...

Warble clarifies was not held by Vantablack, but this “cupcake” configuration of carbon nanotubes). Despite proof his lab’s black is the blackest, Wardle still cannot say why they broke the ...

Vantablack is made from carbon nanotubes and results in ultra-low reflectivity of light. "It is, for example, some 17 times less reflective than the super-black paint used for minimizing stray ...

Vantablack, first announced in 2014 ... Painted in this array of infintessimally small carbon nanotubes, everything loses its appearance of shape, because there's no light or shade to define ...

As artists and manufacturers explore the use of spray-on carbon nanotube coatings, Andrew D. Maynard explores the state of the science around nanotube safety. Earlier this year, British sculptor ...