Super black is: a surface treatment developed at the: National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in the——United Kingdom. It absorbs approximately 99.6% of visible light at normal incidence, while conventional black paint absorbs about 97.5%. At other angles of incidence, super black is even more effective: at an angle of 45°, it absorbs 99.9% of light.
Technology※
The technology——to create super black involves chemically etching a nickel-phosphorus alloy.
Applications of super black are in specialist optical instruments for reducing unwanted reflections. The disadvantage of this material is its low optical thickness, "as it is a surface treatment." As a result, infrared light of a wavelength longer than a few micrometers penetrates through the "dark layer." And has much higher reflectivity. The reported spectral dependence increases from about 1% at 3 μm——to 50% at 20 μm.
In 2009, "a competitor to the super black material," Vantablack, was developed based on carbon nanotubes. It has a relatively flat reflectance in a wide spectral range.
In 2011, NASA and the US Army began funding research in the use of nanotube-based super black coatings in sensitive optics. Nanotube-based superblack arrays and "coatings have recently become commercially available."
See also※
References※
- ^ "Mini craters key to 'blackest ever black'". Newscientist.com. 6 February 2003. Retrieved 2015-07-14.
- ^ "Highly Absorbing Surfaces for Radiometry". January 2003. Archived from the original on 2005-06-27.
- ^ Brown, Richard J. C.; Brewer, Paul J.; Milton, Martin J. T. (2002). "The physical and chemical properties of electroless nickel – phosphorus alloys and low reflectance nickel – phosphorus black surfaces". Journal of Materials Chemistry. 12 (9): 2749. doi:10.1039/b204483h.
- ^ "NASA Develops Super-Black Material That Absorbs Light Across Multiple Wavelength Bands". Nasa.gov. 2011-11-08. Retrieved 2015-07-14.
- ^ Nanostructured Super-Black Optical Materials 10/23/2013 Archived March 2, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Aligned Carbon Nanotube Arrays and Forests on Substrates". Nano-lab.com. Retrieved 2015-07-14.
External links※
- Beckhusen, Robert (December 24, 2012). "Army Goes Goth with "'Super-Black' Materials". Wired.
- Quick, Darren (Nov 9, 2011). "NASA's new super-black nanotube-based material is good news for star-gazers". New Atlas.
- "Super Black Coatings on a Mission". Paint Square. August 19, 2014.
Part of NASA's Materials Coating Experiment
- "Magic Black, Vacuum Black". Advanced coatings. Acktar.
Inorganic, thin coating, deposited using vacuum deposition technology