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What are the hopeful uses for making ever more absorbing black materials?
by ianai 7y ago
What are the hopeful uses for making ever more absorbing black materials?
- the8472 7y agoreducing stray photons in instruments, you only want those that go through your lens array, not those bouncing off the housing.
- samstave 7y agoIt would be interesting to test performance of a single fibre optic thread pulled through and coated with this to see the performance output.
- donw 7y agoI'll lay down a guess that having a better understanding of EM spectrum absorption -- in any wavelength -- likely has all kinds of applications. Better stealth technology, improved shielding for EM emitters, and possibly improved reflectors as well.
- baybal2 7y agoIf it emits in near IR it will make a perfect conversion medium for silicon solar cells.
- WizardAustralis 7y agoWhile not the most technology advanced use, I think this stuff could make for a great solar powered water heater.
- agumonkey 7y agoVery important these days. Depending on full cost of this material.
- tedunangst 7y agoAre the incremental improvements over regular black paint meaningful?
- tejtm 7y agothe inside of telescopes (and other optics)
- intuitionist 7y agotrolling Anish Kapoor?