Completely Dark Materials Breakthroughs for Energy, Space Instrumentation and Military

A new material that absorbs 98 to 99 percent of light from all angles has been created by å team of scientists in Saudi Arabia. The King Abdulla University of Science and Technology researchers led by Andrea Fratalocchi developed this blacker than black technology in an effort to promote improved and efficient solar panel technology.

Researchers were inspired by a very white cyphochilus beetle whose shell has scales that form a photonic crystal structure and have an exceptional capacity to reflect light. With its nanomaterial, the team inverted this ultra-white property so they could design a material that would be ultra- black