Published in ScienceNOW, 23 Nov 2011
For several years, researchers have known that carbon nanotubes are one of the blackest known materials. These tiny scaffolds—which have a structure like rolled-up chicken wire—barely scatter light. Indeed, some believe the nanotubes are so black that they might make a new type of camouflage—one that conceals anything as a flat black blob. To test the idea, scientists etched a picture of a tank onto a silicon surface. […]
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