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VANTABLACK - The Darkest Material on Earth

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Vantablack® is a super-black coating that holds the world record as the darkest man-made substance, it absorbs 99.96% of it’s light. Copyright Surrey NanoSystems. ► WHAT IS VANTABLACK? - Vantablack is not a black paint, pigment or fabric, but is instead a functionalised ‘forest’ of millions upon millions of incredibly small tubes made of carbon, or carbon nanotubes. Each nanotube in the vantablack forest has a diameter of around 20 nanometres (that’s about 3,500 times smaller than the diameter of the average human hair), and are typically from around 14 microns to 50 microns long. A surface area of 1 cm2 would contain around 1,000 million nanotubes ► HOW DARK IS IT? - Vantablack has been recognized by Guinness World Records as the World’s Darkest Man-made Substance. It is the darkest material ever measured by the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington, UK, reflecting only 0.036% of the light that strikes it (measured at 700nm). Thanks  …...more
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VANTABLACK - The Darkest Material on Earth
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Vantablack® is a super-black coating that holds the world record as the darkest man-made substance, it absorbs 99.96% of it’s light. Copyright Surrey NanoSystems. ► WHAT IS VANTABLACK? - Vantablack is not a black paint, pigment or fabric, but is instead a functionalised ‘forest’ of millions upon millions of incredibly small tubes made of carbon, or carbon nanotubes. Each nanotube in the vantablack forest has a diameter of around 20 nanometres (that’s about 3,500 times smaller than the diameter of the average human hair), and are typically from around 14 microns to 50 microns long. A surface area of 1 cm2 would contain around 1,000 million nanotubes ► HOW DARK IS IT? - Vantablack has been recognized by Guinness World Records as the World’s Darkest Man-made Substance. It is the darkest material ever measured by the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington, UK, reflecting only 0.036% of the light that strikes it (measured at 700nm). Thanks for watching ____________________________________________________________________ LINKS ► Surrey NanoSystems Youtube Channel -    / @surreynanosystems   ► Surrey Nanosystems Website - https://www.surreynanosystems.com/ ► VANTABLACK FAQ’s LINK - https://www.surreynanosystems.com/van... ► Sphere Video -    • Vantablack Sphere   _____________________________________________________________________ 🔔 🔔 WONDER WORLD CHANNEL & VIDEO INFORMATION 🔔 🔔 🔵 Wonder World Twitter -   / wonderworld_ytc   ✅ For personal story suggestions or business enquiries about product stories / reviews, please contact me on my email from the ABOUT page. Note: All suggestions are welcome, but may not be chosen as they are not suitable for this channel. ❌ COPYRIGHT : Please do not ask for permission to use footage in this video, or the whole video itself, as the ownership of all footage remains that of the owners who gave me permission to use it. If you want to use any of the footage click on the links above and seek permission from the owners.

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