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Vantablack

submitted by newtboy

4 years 8 months ago

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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BSR

Wonder what Vanna White has to say about this.

Drachen_Jager says...

Fuck Vantablack.

Asshole Anish Kapoor bought it so he could keep it to himself and not allow any other artist to use it.

That's like the ultimate dick move. Make a ton of money off your questionable art and instead of paying it forward, you take products off the market for your exclusive use so no other up and coming artists can use it as a medium.

There's a company in the US that has created an equivalent, and they're sharing it with an artist I know in the Boston MA area. I can't think of the name at the moment, but it's probably easy to find?

They had expressed the same sentiment about the Vanta owner.

Drachen_Jagersaid:

Asshole Anish Kapoor bought it so he could keep it to himself and not allow any other artist to use it.

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