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Researchers Make a Substance That Absorbs 99.9% of Light

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. A....

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