Researchers develop darkest manmade material

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The new darkest manmade material with its 0.045 percent reflectance (center) is noticeably darker than the 1.4 percent NIST reflectance standard (left) and a piece of glassy carbon (right). Credit: Rensselaer
The new darkest manmade material, with its 0.045 percent reflectance (center), is noticeably darker than the 1.4 percent NIST reflectance standard (left) and a piece of glassy carbon (right). Credit: Rensselaer

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Rice University have created the darkest material ever made by man.


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