Saturday June 12, 2010
Radiation-soaking metamaterial puts black in the shade
Jeff Hecht
New Scientist
Fashionistas take note: this material really does deserve to be labelled the new black - it absorbs virtually all the light that hits it.
This "blacker than black" stuff is an example of a class of substances known as metamaterials, which exhibit optical properties not normally found in nature.
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