Here is a win for us solar heating folks
From News.com.au :
Black is the new black in science??
By Julie Steenhuysen in Chicago
January 16, 2008 10:40am
US researchers say they have made the darkest material on Earth, a substance so black it absorbs more than 99.9 per cent of light.
Made from tiny tubes of carbon standing on end, this material is almost 30 times darker than a carbon substance used by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology as the current benchmark of blackness.
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