Carbon nanotubes built this bizarre ultrablack material
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ก.ค. 2024
- Carbon nanotubes are a lot like graphene: both are super-hyped materials that haven’t changed the world the way we hoped they would. At least, not yet. But while producing nanotubes, one research team accidentally found something else: one of the blackest materials on the planet. We explore how nanotubes help comprise Vantablack, and how ultrablack materials are actually used around the world.
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What would you use Vantablack for?
Ninja suits
i'd use it for painting Elon Musk Starlink satellites, so that they don't pollute the Earth sky with shiny fast moving lights ..
i wonder if it wwould be too much heat for a solar panel. If it can handle it
Military outfits.
I'd love to use it for some art. But I can't because Surrey Nanosystems allowed Anish Kapoor to sign an exclusive agreement allowing only him to use it for artistic purposes. Something completely missed out in the video...
Vanta black is the most matte black material out there.
MKBHD's breathing intensifies.
@@asanasa actually YOU are racist af because you interpreted the joke as racist ;)
@@asanasa lmao how would it be referring to his skin 😂
@@asanasa you're not very smart are you?
MKBHD likes matte black skins on his devices. He literally has merch that says matte black everything.
He then would need the most reddish red ever to couple with it 🤷🏻♂️
Best comment, hands down
Vanta black is Acctually a happy accident.
*Bob Ross intesifies*
actually*
intensifies*
@@JorgetePanete don't worry, that too is a happy accident.
@@jwo7777777 don't worry, that too is a happy accident.
Kruzer Blade e i c wat u d der
2009: Nano technology is going to change the world in ten years.
2019: Vanta black
iostboy Yeah.
iostboy exactly the verge is just a meme that covers everything in an oversimplified way. If you have any experience in the topics they talk about you will literally cringe
Dooya vanta black woman
It's definitely going closer
The Main Cheese ikr there are plenty of videos covering vanta black in the past years its confusing and cringy to see verge upload one at this time
"I'll stop wearing black when they make a darker colour"
_Vantablack has entered the chat_
Fallout boys!
my inner goth is screaming
How much Vanta Black do you need?
Batman: yes
Damn, yes!
@@batman_2004 Lmao yes
@Batman Wait a sec, who are you?! Is that you, joker?!
Would be so cool if they actually used it for the new Batman
🧐
In my experience as a projectionist, I would love to see the screen masking (black frame around the screen) using vantablack so that no image spillover would be visible. It would be just a nice, crisp image suspended in a pitch-black frame.
That's great
Nice
I love it
@@theguru8376 every painting has a frame...
Oh gosh now i NEED this
Me to my local car dealer: _"Does it come in Vanta Black?"_
good luck parking your car in the street at night
good luck to the bypassers driving in the highways at night
I don’t wanna say the n word here but...
That is actually an application. Coating TANKS
Your car would absorb so much sunlight, it would probably become an oven
It would be really cool to cover everything in a movie theater with that paint
its not paint lol is a material that absorbs light and traps most of it thats tries to reflect back to your eyes but can’t because the material traps the light hence you see nothing but an black object
@@destingray2613 dunno bout that
but BMW has already made an X something car that's covered/painted in vanta-black
Truth
@@destingray2613 r/wooooosh
@@user-ov2fc5sd1e wow thats for real. Seems dangerous even with headlights lol
I am hearing about this vantablack from 5 years ago
pass the weed bro
Me too. Either from discovery channel or national geographic channel
Its been for a "while" (well, not in historical tiime frames but you get the idea). If it wasnt so damn toxic, it would be even better tho
@@ursulaandrea237 Didn't verge science had already a video about this material?
Thank the algorithm. Also Vantablack is toxic and the guy who made it is actually a horrible guy. Get Black 2.0 because you can actually buy that
Man fell into a black painted hole - is that from Looney Tunes??
LMAO.
To be fair, before that news story, I too thought the hole was just a 2D Vantablack painted circle. Turns out it was an actual 8 ft deep hole with the inside painted in Vantablack.
@@borisdemelo It was like a curved spherical hole? Like the inside of an eyeball almost? Would have been trippy dangling an arm into it.
Roland M. Dill 🕳 🐫✨✨✨
LOONEY *TOONS*
It’s 2019, I expected “The Jetsons” but we’re actually one step closer to “Looney Tunes” technology.
Like the peel and stick holes in cartoons, throw it against the wall and enter the bank vault, or throw it on the ground in front of someone and they fall in the hole!
Are you refering to bugs bunny black face?
We may not have flying cars, but granddad will surely be equally impressed with the fact that we have over 72 genders now. Unless your granddad is Osama, in which case he found out only too late that in the afterlife you only get one virgin millennial named Pat who has 72 genders.
and not even the jetsons had the internet take that into consideration
Truth....,HAHA HAHA HA!!HA!!
Guess it was hard to see vantablack coming
Oh my lmao kskskskskks
if you gaze long into Vantablack, the Vantablack also gazes into you
Actually, not that long. It starts gazing into you right away.
In fact, gazing into it feels a bit like it has always been out there, gazing into you ...
Nice joke
And it says "desu"
I didn't see this coming.
that’s a little creepy
It’s disappointing that the general public can’t even access vantablack.
yet
Yes you can, start research, contact them, get black
@@Yooo-ph5zx no they sold the exclusive rights to use it
@@solarsatan9000 how can you own a color? I don't get this. Can I copy right a certain type of green? If I make a very specific green color with very specific pigments that I extract from a certain plant using a very specific chemistry procedure - could I then sue anyone who uses that color?
@@the_original_Bilb_Ono I don't understand it either
The Verge: "Groundbreaking technology"
2:58: Windows XP
Bro, if you had any idea how industrial software works, you'd be terrified.
Everyone would be terrified!
Hey, if it's not broken...
They are probably connected trough serial ports and if its working fine you don't need to update enything. They have their own eco system. And because of that code in software is so outdated that they will not works with new technologies. Ignore grammar mistakes my keyboard is broken....took my 15min to type all of this.
Like Eric said!!!
As they said.
I would coat a ninja suit with it and run around at night with red LED’s for eyes
Meme Lord Rafael use a bike helmet instead :)
Time to make ninja suits boys
Those would be pretty useless suits. Black this dark would stand out more than white at night.
@@josephk1342 depends on the environment, if light is present (like moon/streetlights), or you are in a forest (no light at all)
@@pascalsrule423 Nope, you're wrong. There is almost always light at night. Unless you are underground without a flashlight, there will always be ambient light, be it from stars, the moon, city lights, etc. If you hold your hand up to the sky, you will see a silhouette of your hand because the sky is very bright, even at night.
Black stands out like a sore thumb at night, especially once your eyes adjust to the darkness.
@@josephk1342 Really, I went camping in the mountains in Banff, and at night, theres literally no light (cloudy), even when the sky cleared up, you cant see anything on the ground.
@@pascalsrule423 Can't make out details is different from not seeing the ground at all. I guarantee you there was plenty of light. You could see the clouds right? That means there was light. Unless you literally could not see your hand in front of your face, then there was light.
I wonder what it looks like through other light wavelengths, like ultraviolet or infrared.
"UV, Visible and IR absorption - Absorption works from UV (200-350 nm wavelength), through the visible (350-700nm) and into the far infrared (>16 microns) spectrum, with no spectral features."
Makes sense. But I bet you still can't avoid blackbody radiation.
RBuckminsterFuller legit
@@RBuckminsterFuller Being this black and absorbing so much light, I would assume it actually warms up very quickly when exposed to light. And then it will emit infrared radiation.
For what you would see in parts of the spectrum that it doesn't absorb: It would look like any other reflecting surfaces in that part part of the spectrum.
That sounds like an awesome idea for a video
My Minecraft brightness slider is no match for your puny nano tubes.
your Minecraft brightness slider has no power in the realm of reality!
Yeetur McBeetur Our*
Nekogami-Crystal What if reality is Minecraft
Brain: Touch it
Me: Why?
Brain: You gotta
Need a huge circle of this when escaping the AREA 51 raid.
lmao
Paint both the desert and yourself vantablack so the guards can't see you against the sand.
@@madmax07ish, that's brilliant!
Yes the so called modern government uses this to hide classifications
@@SameLif3, ah yes, the modern day Vantablack Redaction Method. :-) Nothing to see here, folks. Move along.
Sometimes you see lay people wearing what look like black socks, but if you look closely you'll see they're very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very dark blue.
Father Ted lol
Vanta blue
dun DUN *DUUUNN*
Who are lay people?
Danny Burke Brilliant
Imagine painting a room with this and going into it seeing almost nothing.
John Rhoades omg that would be creepy, I think it would cause anxiety or a new phobia...I want to see that now lol
*You have entered the void*
Some guy actually did it!
Man, if only I have an OLED screen to watch this on...
Damn. Guess you have a budget phone or an iPhone.
jimmy jones iphones have oled displays now
jimmy jones iPhones have OLED displays though.
Why I’m on an iPad Pro and it’s just literally black bars in the screen nothing much to see
Man, if only this where made in 4K for my LG OLED TV
Imagine painting your room in this....
It's gonna feel like stepping into the Four Kings boss lair
@@Reydriel I love you for this comment this is why I will kneel before you and give you this Covenant of Artorias
ring.
@@xanthopurpurin worth it
Since I heard about this stuff, that has been my fantasy.
@@xanthopurpurin The real world is cancer. Big whoop.
I can already some rich guy from Dubai painting their Lamborghini with this stuff
I can also see the same rich guy going to crash his lamborghini with another car at night.
@@cbbblue8348 welll that wouldnt happen due to how light works hears an example ninjas most likely didnt wear black since one at the time it was expensive two the way our eyes work you would see something thats darker than your surrounding even in pitch black night in the woods . so a person driving a vanta black car what you would see is a weird dark object thats darker than everything else so you could avoid a collusion with that thing
ITS ON A BMW ALREADY
I doubt that’s legal
There's a rule about color!?
We still now almost nothing about the practical side of the material.
- is bad for your health after it is applied
- is it bendable/flexible
- is it durable, can it withstand forces
I already knew this but Im going to watch it anyways because I dont have a better thing to do
Well least you're being honest
Ultra-black + Ultra-white = Ultra-Grey
Logic: *100%*
Yeah, this is big brain time
This is what Stanley Kubrick needed when painting the monolith in 2001: A Space Odyssey!!
Great episode!
Ok...light is a form of energy, so if it's absorbed almost completely won't there be any heat or any other phenomenon?
Informative video btw.
Of course. It absorbs visible light and emits infrared. It's called black-body radiation
@@bilalsadain hmm...this material absorbs light almost completely so won't the emission be too much?
@@debojitchowdhury6825 Like in the video stated, it's applicable to room temperature. Saying 'room' implicates that there is no use outside where the light is too strong. The future may hold more resistable material.
Debojit Chowdhury
There aint much energy in a LED or Neon room-light even when absorbed 100%
It is probably hotter than other black objects but not that hot
There is heat but a room temperature there isn't also a lot to catch, and probably it releases in other form like infrared, so is great to catch energy to use it as heat.
*U.S. Military:*
*[HEAVY BREATHING INTENSIFIES]*
Vantablack is the most black thing
Somewhere in the universe..... Black hole:am I a joke to you
Somewhere In Africa
An african:am I joke to u
@@luisduron2333 you racist bruhhh
luis duron stalest and most unfunny shit I’ve read in 18 years
MEEDOWZ/ TH-cam how is it racist?
Black holes arent fully black
Does it absorb all types of wavelenght? Or only visible light.
If it can absorb other types of radiation this can be applied in all sorts of things.
Angelo Yamamoto This is extremely old tech so if it could do anything cool they would probably already know
I already seen reflect quality in the black. So it not completely non reflective
It is physically impossible for it to absorb in all wavelengths. Most likely it is just absorbing in visible light and nearby wavelengths, i.e. maybe some UV and/or infrared.
The coatings absorb from the UV to the THz spectrum - 600um wavelength.
So this must be a perfect "black"body emitter, converting visible light into the infrared spectrum?
Perfect cover material for a re-release of Smell the Glove.
Thanks Sophie, that was really insightful.
This is basically a black hole without all the gravitational pull
Batman: I'll take your entire stock
Graphene is too expensive. Those guys up in Canada created nanotube tech using marijuana and made super capacitors that discharge 3X more electricity.
What? I NEED more info on that!
MOAR info!!!!
Info? Link? Source?
@@Proctor_Conley www.asme.org/topics-resources/content/hemp-carbon-makes-supercapacitors-superfast
@@namyx_71 see below
Haven't heard anything about vantablack in a while, thanks
This is so 2017 and they show it like something new
If you painted ure car venta black and lived in Florida it would probably become hotter than the sun
There is a. Vanta black car.
Vanta black is the darkest substance
Black concrete: am I a joke to u
Ze Yang Lim you fool, for they are one in the same
Think the thumbnail for whatever reason most accurately portrays or comes closest to giving you the feeling of what looking at it really feels like. At least for me
Good news is that Ventablack 3.0 is available on Amazon
You mean black 3.0, the blackest PAINT, not carbon nanotubes that are super bad for lungs and can't be painted on?
It's probably a joke? Counterfeit/knockoff?
Because that's vant *e* black not vant *a* black
Riley from linustechtips would have been proud 🤩
Mohammed Tariq CARBON NANOTUBE TRANSISTORS!!!!!!!!! 🤓🤓🤓
@tommy aronson smart boi
The ultimate ninja clothing fabric have been discovered....
It's mesmerizing to look at
Imagine a tattoo made out of vantablack ink
Vantablack just turns off the simulation of our universe where applied. ;)
If this substance absorbs and traps light (photons) extremely well does it also effectively trap and retain heat? Could it have practical applications in very cold climates such as Antarctic research facilities? Lastly, if this substance was extremely durable, I think a Centurion card from Amex coated in Vantablack would be so cool...
Then this particle also lose heat soon .
Your T-shirt was apt for the video! 🤙
This is perfect for my paintings
I'm gonna need to coat my hoodie, pants, sneakers, and shirt in this stuff just to be the edgiest teen on earth
Anybody notice the XP machine?
These prequel episodes of "The Expanse" are getting really good!
I need this wrap color for my car.
“Vanta Black is the most darkest object in the world”
My wife’s heart: Hold My Cosmo
This was show cased last year lmao it s so old
I wanna enter a whole room made of this material
Would love to see this on consumer camera lenses, or just painting an entire wall in my bedroom.
I'm curious as to how Vantablack deals with higher energy EM radiation, the ionizing kind, X-Rays and what not.
Good question! I suspect it would absorb it well. Longer wavelengths like microwaves not so much.
@@drr30 : If this coupled with basalt fiber composites, which are already good at shielding against ionizing radiation, can be used for future lightweight structures on the moon or Mars. We can keep 'em "warm".
Did you say *Carbon Nanotuuubes?*
Toooobs
0:57
Verge Science: Ben Jensen is The Company Founder.
Ben Jensen: Opens His Mouth To Speak Before He Finished
Imagine finding your key that’s somehow made out of that material in the dark
What If you paint yourself with Ventablack?
Would you be a shadow people?
You'll be a Sleep Paralysis demon
You’d be a Heartless.
Or Mr. Game and Watch
Anyone came after seeing the *Vanta Black BMW X6* ?
I’ve Seen It In Person A Few Times, It’s Just As Fascinating Each Time, Each Time I’ve Seen It Its Been At A Fair Not That Far From Where It Was Made (Uk Of Course)
And Yes The Previews In This Video Are Accurate, It Literally Looks Like Someone Has Photoshopped Your Vision Black
They should build a tunnel and cover it in that stuff and it would be sick
1919 : "fLyiNg cArS iN FuTuRe"
2019: "we created something blacker than black"
Vantablack: This is the darkest material ever
*MKBHD enters the chat*
Would love a carwrap with this stuff.
5:10 ridley scott: [sad director noises]
I remember years ago when deadmau5 wanted to wrap his car in this. 😂
I didnt know graphene and vantablack are connected. Wow
Imagine being in a sensory deprivation tank painted with the inside painted with this
Lovecraft would FALL IN LOVE with this as material for a history.
So VantablackX is not made from nanotubes. Ironic.
It is made with nanotubes, but the trick is the structure. A regular structure could allow light to escape but an irregular one easily catches everything, in this case up to 99.96% of all visible light.
@@EduardoEscarez 5:40. "VBx, that doesn't use carbon nanotubes at all".
@@grandgamingexhilarating that's an cheaper alternative "VantaBlackX"
@@grandgamingexhilarating VBx is an alternative for places were the use of nanotubes could be harmful, like in public installations. They produce Vantablack for uses that don't have that issues.
@@EduardoEscarez Thx. 👍.
What about usage in Solar Panels? How would this affect efficiency since It absorbs so much light?
Imagine how cool it would look coating a fighter jet
Imagine going around in a full on vantablack suit at night.
You're like two years late to the party on this one
Marvel Studios should use this for their promotional material for Black Panther 2, paint his suit and call it Black Vanta or Pantha Black or Vanta Panther or Vantablack Panther ^^
They can't the rights to use vantablack was sold to one artist
Thats amazing
Boutta put this on my af1s
Could i dye my hair with Vanta black? (serious)
No
First of your hair strands whould spontaneously combust in sunlight
No amount of washing whould get it off ,
You don't have 100.000 dollar's
Vantablack isn't just a color, it's an actual material.. so no.
@@cattie806 by that logic black printer toner does not exsist
We do not speak of Kapoor
#sharetheblack
#sharetheblack
"This is cover of magazine."
Will wonders never cease?
I want this as car paint
Vanta Black : i'm the blackest material out there
Black Hole : *EXCUSE ME*
😂😂😂😂
Black matter
Super awesome !
This is amazing
I wanna see someone do an entire car with this stuff
Time to paint the getaway car with this stuff
While visiting Los Angeles in January, I saw a Porsche that had to have been painted in Vantablack. Don't know how the owner had that done, but it was spooky seeing a car-shaped matte black cut-out in the middle of a sunny day.
Imagine makeing a ninja suit out of vantablack