Vantablack: The Darkest Material Ever Made

Today we're talking about the blackest material ever created!
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[@SciShow]

Correction: In the episode, we said that photons are too small to get inside the Vantablack tubes, but photons don’t have a physical size. The reason Vantablack works is because the tubes are so long and closely spaced that any photons that fall in bounce around indefinitely, without being able to escape.

[@nathanielbrown4904]

Why did you correct yourself 4 years later

[@soltiniJpepper1990]

K

[@WhiskersMctabby]

Thanks for the correction but next time, please get muscle Hank to bend space time with his barbell lifting speed, so as to allow for your comment to appear 50 months in the past. ^_^

[@ghosttraintittiebeaan4879]

Nathaniel Brown they recently referenced this video in their latest, as they were researching production on the new video they probably referenced this one- and caught the error upon going back

[@liyeh7141]

@@nathanielbrown4904 True story: I saw the video in 2017 and thought the whole photon size thing was wierd, so i contacted Surrey Nano Systems (who makes Vantablack), and they told me the nano tubes are closed at both end, and there is nothing to do with the photon size. after the conversation with Surrey Nano Systems, i have sent an email to Scishow in 2018 (i think) regarding their mistake, but because they get tons of emails (assumably), it took them 2 years to reply. thats why this got corrected after so long.

[@ChrisK-ur4mz]

still brighter than my future

[@jaketheannihalator9314]

pure genius xD

[@lolitaholic9063]

+RNBW I wouldn't go that far.

[@jaketheannihalator9314]

Lolitaholic how come?

[@gokumastergundam523]

ouch.

[@lovetemplex]

Tragic

[@1life1left]

So if you walk in a full Vantablack suit at night, people think there's a literal hole in the shape of a human moving through space...

[@Moscato_Moscato]

That'd be super awesome!

[@it_Nexus562]

Ninja suit.

[@BlueBD]

basically.

[@doommuffinz5276]

"... What have you done?"

[@cicadafun]

you can literally be a shadow

[@anthonything]

Now i can live my dream of being a locked character

[@jimmyrice3414]

😂

[@TheReligiousAtheists]

You nailed it 😂😂

[@unnwas]

lol

[@rickyflores5169]

Serious 666 likes

[@implodingbaby]

No one like this comment

[@4D1Characterror]

This would be a great application for movie theater walls. Increase the immersion.

[@oztynz]

Characterror4D1 I thank a phone case but yours is so smart and very cool,or a game room I thought after seeing your post

[@Anastasia-hn8bs]

davidixonlive great, but people would burn to death from the heat

[@artistwithouttalent]

davidixonlive Wow, that's actually a useful idea.

[@nicholastuite8135]

Anastasia Rain what?

[@Beo8491]

@@nicholastuite8135 The walls would trap all the heat that's being emitted from the light from the screen and just make the place a huge oven but for humans

[@jadedeyesamuri]

I want clothes with this so I don't need to worry about wrinkles.

[@roastking860]

Yeah but imagine the amount of lint you'd be able to see on it.

[@jadedeyesamuri]

O :/........... call em stars and we're back in business

[@johnielus8682]

I want clothes with this since it won't make any difference, I'll still be invisible to others.

[@arcaderockstar7536]

Or pet hair.

[@ASilentS]

Carbon nanotubes are toxic. You definitely DON'T want clothes in this color.

[@FreakEasyGaming]

Character not unlocked at 1:12

[@xXDJLEE02Xx]

Probably the best comment I've seen today.

[@Badimations]

ha

[@0xSrr61]

lmao

[@gregchan7976]

With 112 likes

[@aleksinuutila2315]

löl

[@Maeve_Rose]

so some asshole paid to have exclusive rights to use a material artistically? what's he planning on doing with it?

[@3nertia]

Capitalizing heh

[@CyrusdVulture]

That's okay. Someone else went and made the pinkest pigment ever made and made it available to everyone but that guy. You actually have to sign a contract saying that you purchased it with no intent to let it anywhere near that dude.

[@EmergentSea1]

Ember Storm I'm pretty sure that he actually got hold of that pink and sent its creator a picture of him giving a bright-pink finger.

[@robertdelatorre7252]

In which case he is an accessory to a crime HAH

[@Sapphairis]

Ember Storm Is this true? Because that would make me very happy

[@tomlukin7030]

"sorry, this layer has been deleted"

[@__prometheus__]

Crystallized Purple Lol

[@ChickenNEO]

wat?😶

[@Weisior]

Or "chunk load error"

[@Boris_Chang]

Deep Synaptic Saturation

[@theCodyReeder]

So this is what ninjas wear!

[@dreadcthulhu5]

No, they wore navy blue because black actually stands out in the dark, which looks lighter.

[@boooters]

Hi Cody'sLab

[@joshz6975]

why hello there! I do think this is pretty awesome though, I'm especially excited about the applications for telescopes, which I instantly thought of when I heard about this

[@strengthman600]

Cody for your next video you should make your own vantablack

[@northmustang5220]

Lol! If they wore this all you'd see, if you were lucky, is a two dimensional shadow running around in the dark killing people... Maybe that's where some of our horror stories came from.

[@System_Anomaly]

>insert brighter than future joke here

[@Devieus]

It's darker than the past.

[@temporlary3416]

the eu referendum

[@accountinactive7914]

+Dr. Unreasonable Scientist Alpha Jackal a black hole is brighter than _my_ future

[@TechNomad]

Vantablack is brighter then my future.

[@MrJay_White]

@technomad www.statista.com/statistics/266228/youth-unemployment-rate-in-eu-countries/ uk youth unemployment rate isnt even half of what it is in a quarter of espu states. average youth unemployment in the eu as a whole is nearly twice that in the uk. you are your beliefs are demonstrably contradictory to reality, that makes you either ignorant or delusional.

[@1Animeculture]

"whos that pokemon?!" just became a cosplay.

[@CommentCritic]

So you're telling me I can't cover my room walls with this? Damn

[@13ON3S]

If you have 10 million dollars then ya

[@epicrabid1857]

+TuckTuck y not ask trump for a small loan of a mill dollars...

[@GBart]

not yet anyway...

[@Coolkidkarateman]

Jakester! - The Darude Comment Critic your room would look nonexistant. that'd be cool as crap.

[@bagelmaster45]

Jakester! - The Darude Comment Critic Imagine though, you wouldn't know where your walls would start and end. You would walk into them. So cool, kinda pointless, but so cool!

[@seahawk124]

I thought the darkness thing in the universe is my ex-girlfriend's heart?

[@emko333]

thump up his ass? or hers?

[@PseudoSarcasm]

Oh fuck, I knew she's been around, but you guys???

[@valken666]

Give up false hope on relationships, you'll be much happier.

[@GrandmasterFerg]

Is that a quote from Grim Fandango?

[@seahawk124]

GrandmasterFunk No, the quote you may be thinking of is: "My scythe... I like to keep it next to where my heart used to be."

[@demerzel3798]

Black is the new black

[@25condiscount70]

Lol

[@cade_mccarley3127]

I thought the title said Vantablack: The Dankest Material Ever Made

[@tdoge]

It could very well be THE dankest

[@CreatoKato]

lmfao

[@tonysmith5603]

Are you blind

[@genner-vincenthodgson5177]

SpookerDasH _ Haha, I read your comment as Darkest so there you go😁

[@tristong937]

This comment just made my morning XD (Cause Vantablack should be the dankest material made)

[@maikelanderslood2406]

I think if a person thrown into a vantablack cell for 1 year would be let out next year he would be like a scared child in the world trying to understand everything again.

[@MonoReaper]

He wouldnt even last one day. The same goes for people who are imprisoned in a complete white room. It was tested and they went insane.

[@asherandai1000]

+Reaper_V thats not entirely true. yes some people do go insane, but its due to isolation that they go insane, same thing that potentially could happen to astronauts which is why one of the principle tests for a would-be astronaut is how well they can handle isolation and sensory deprivation. if what you claimed was true then no one would ever be suitable as an astronaut. simply put some people could handle it, others could not.

[@MonoReaper]

The difference between astronauts and the white/black room is that your eyes cannot grasp what they see. So the information send to your brain makes for your brain no sense because you see no forms no nothing only the "room" you can only feel due your body parts. The reason why people go insane in such a room is because the cannot "see" anything therefore their imaginations goes wild so wild that they get panic attacks etc. or begin so see things because they see "nothing". Astronauts are not trapped in a room their "eyes" cannot "see". Such a thing was only tested with a white room and the people went badshit insane after a few hours they were scared and so on. The only guy who made it the longest was around 23:35hours & minutes. They black room with vantablack was never tested nor anything similar.

[@muqarrab8736]

I can't understand how a vantablack room be different than a completely dark room (with no source of light). And i sleep that way, with not even a mobile charger LED on in the room. And i have not gone insane as far as i know, and i believe the same should go for a "white" room. But i also understand that many people can't stand a completely dark room alone, they get scared, so may be that's what you mean when you say that people will start to hallucinate.

[@mushroomcube623]

Maybe our brains are simply used to complete darkness because we know we can't see when there's no light. A vantablack room would be different because there could be a light source, such as a lamp, but it would still look like complete darkness everywhere else. This sounds a lot like the ganzfeld effet (look it up).

[@jonglo9104]

its looks like you literally put some black marker on the picture using photoshop

[@larex1222]

that one guy on the internet name fits

[@Taikamuna]

I want a vantablack phone case

[@Jarl_69]

Just think about all the applications! We could have perfect Ninjas...

[@spicketspaghet7773]

stealth camos for night!

[@ieuanhunt552]

No it's too dark you would stand out like against anything

[@asj3419]

it would be fantastic for solar heating (and preparing perfect medium-rare ninjas in the sun)

[@rienokimchee6687]

Brother?

[@ipsnagi9442]

That was like my first thought! :P

[@jred7]

How can you buy the artistic rights to a color!? That's absurd!

[@squidpizza6320]

It's probably more of a copyright to the material and chemical process. :/

[@JM-lh8rl]

Absurd! I call dibs on Cosmic Latte; I OWN THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE (or at least its average color)

[@leleedler]

No, he paid the company not to apply the color to artistic objects.

[@boyinthemirror]

there is also a blue tone which nobody may use

[@csscszcsgv]

Yes. I, for instance, own yellow... and have been suing that plagiarist Matt Groening since 1992. No success, so far.

[@anonamoose8853]

This isn't your average everyday darkness, this is, Advanced Darkness.

[@Killbayne]

Darkness+™️

[@mphephimjwara5685]

why are they promoting new robber clothing

[@FoxieKT]

I want an entire outfit made of this so I can finally be the void.

[@Dalton216]

+The Heist lol

[@Miguel-hr5gl]

10 year old detected

[@powder8836]

+The Heist HA HA you horny squeaker

[@zengamer321]

Finally there is someone who feels the way I feel.

[@SoleNero21]

fill it with your love nectar xD

[@legostarwarsrulez]

Wait, so if you coat an entire room (no Windows) on all sides with 100% vantablack, and brought some lamps and flashlights into it and turned them on, what the heck would it look like in there?

[@ulfvonweimuller4433]

+shut your face! It would look like there is no room at all. Instead the beam of the flashlight (scattering from air) ends to the place, where wall begins. You would see no walls nor corners nor anything. Just the lamps, yourself, and endless void starting from the point, where the beam of light is cut.

[@legostarwarsrulez]

would make for a cool planetarium then. show the vastness of the darkness of space, sprinkle the walls with LED's for stars

[@BettyAlexandriaPride]

+shut your face! That would be awesome.

[@BettyAlexandriaPride]

+Ulf von Weißmüller lol, I read the first part of your comment as "Shut your face!"

[@David_Last_Name]

No idea, but someone needs to try this.

[@uhmuhwha]

"and there’s that unfortunate danger of being spaghetti-ed to death" That was great

[@rahulsabikhi1]

BATMAN *Slow Breathing*

[@smac919]

dooooooooood a vanta black cape for batman was the first thing i thought of lol

[@ElijahDecker]

I'm calling it now. Goth, emo, and vamp kids will be the primary market for clothing coated in this material.

[@ambiguouswindow9051]

And ninjas

[@spindash64]

+Ambiguous Window the idea behind ninjas is to blend in to their surroundings and not be noticed as a ninja, not to appear as a swirling void of terror.

[@ivan2547]

I'll be their first customer😆❤️

[@dooplon5083]

spindash64 On second thought, that could work.

[@dooplon5083]

Silver Shadow Hope you like looking like a cartoon! (it's because you'll look 2D)

[@randonaut]

Imagine getting your car painted with this?

[@mikelatta484]

It would get backed into in the parking lot, 63 times a day.

[@seagk1343]

It does not make your car invisible lmao, just really black. So people could see it, but not any of the beveling.

[@Gogglesofkrome]

If you painted your car with it, it would honestly probably overheat because the light directly translates into heat. If anything, it would make for a great outside layering in arctic regions, as to cut down on carry weight restrictions, and to make it easier to be seen in the cold of the tundra

[@clangauss4155]

It would get incredibly hot, especially if you live in warmer areas. My Texas car is silver and I already sweat when I get into it without AC.

[@Gogglesofkrome]

Kyle White I also suspect it might be great for cammo for satellites, or whatnot.

[@jauume]

They finally found the colour of my soul

[@cezarcatalin1406]

TheLegend27 TM But isn't it a bit to light to represent your soul ?

[@turtleturtle9635]

ᏰĪᏝᏝ ՇÎρɧᏋƦ 😎

[@martiqueheisler5959]

Edgy

[@chrisclifford7080]

I can finally look like SCP-089

[@ft.nufonia]

Imagine a vantablack morphsuit.

[@bgttgb100]

potentially horrifying.. would look like an intelligent shadow

[@funny-video-YouTube-channel]

This is perfect for solar water heaters, or solar heating that pumps heat into the ground during the sunny days. This material will help to reduce the use of resources, which is great for the environment = more clean spaces for us. The future looks good with advanced technology.

[@Max24871]

It does not really matter though, because 99% efficiency is close enough. Also, it probably get dirty quickly

[@funny-video-YouTube-channel]

BMicraft The solar heaters are enclosed in thermal glass, it will not get dirty on the inside. Have a deeper look at them. They are an amazing technology, that is currently cheaper than solar panels.

[@oli2.019]

Yeah 0.000000001% difference in the amount of light wouldn't really matter.

[@Max24871]

epSos.de The problem with glass is, that it absorbs about 10% of the light.

[@funny-video-YouTube-channel]

BMicraft If you know a better solution, then you can propose it to the world. The Internet is an open space. Go ahead and make you proposition that is better than thermal glass.

[@severalthngs]

It would be a weird feeling while beeing in an isolated room where all walls, the floor and ceiling are covered with vantablack and you want to use a flashlight.

[@cpob2013]

that would be a great indie horror film

[@bridge9297]

it would be great torture en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_torture

[@babygrinchbinch]

+' Bridge ' your comment led to over half an hour of me reading about white torture, watching a short film involving jt, and pondering how sick and inhumane governments can be.

[@Lyw1234567890]

Man, I'd pay to experience that. It'd be like experiencing unconsciousness while conscious

[@lear62]

You could still be using a flashlight but you wouldn't see anything but yourself

[@ZukaroTravon]

I don't think people should have the right to exclusive use of a material. That's genuinely pathetic.

[@dusaprukiyathan1613]

Yes.

[@cosmonaut379]

uhhhhh what?

[@arthas640]

I understand it, companies like Dupont spend hundreds of millions if not billions a year developing materials like this for commercial or industrial applications so they usually get some sort of copyright that usually has a time limit. Even basic things like nylon, rayon, and virtually all plastics started out as copyrighted products at first but after awhile they usually lose the copyright and other people get to make it. If you spend $50mil making a new extra bouncy rubber to make better tires, but all your competitors get the formula then what's your incentive for taking the risk? This is one of the reasons why in areas that dont protect intellectual properties or copyrights there's usually less innovation, and the innovation that is made is usually funded by the government... in which case the government retains sole ownership the same with that a private company would. If you dont want to produce it yourself and allow others to find uses for the new product then you can just allow them to produce it under license, you retain ownership but they have to pay you a prearranged amount. You actually see this alot then you'd expect, whenever you hear about a new vehicle or weapon produced in a country foreign to the one who designed it, they're allow it to be produced under license, this is often done to allow the other country to create jobs while still selling more of your vehicles then you could produce yourself.

[@Argoon1981]

Agree but is not something new, some kings and Queens of old had the exclusive right to some materials and colors, anyone daring to break that rule would be arrested or killed.

[@SomeRandomPiggo]

Looks like I'm not the only person who thinks that guy is a jackass

[@Zsnakeoo]

I want a vantablack car. Or more reasonnably but just as cool: a painting.

[@CortezEspartaco2]

Ludovic Pasqualini But you would be prone to having people crash into you.

[@johnspence234]

James Rae I don't know, I think it would be fine, just surreal for onlookers. on a car you'd still have headlights and a windshield, as well as the mirrors, so id think peoole could see you, or at the very least theyd notice the absence of light. it would be pretty trippy to see cruising down the street though.

[@MonoReaper]

You would cook alive in the car as vantablack absorbs almost all incoming light.

[@Zsnakeoo]

That will be a funny way to cook.

[@jobowisheshewasnomo4171]

that could be very dangerous

[@Edgedable]

I want to make a super hero suit out of this material and call myself 'Black-Man'

[@JoeCrush_]

lol

[@NegaSkydoesminecraft]

The White Knight will come for you then.

[@clgut]

That's racist

[@Nicbaggins]

+Clgut no it's not you 12 year Old middle schoo stereotyping fuckbag.

[@erikruder3360]

+〈-- The face of a duck when you feed them bread. dude chill

[@LordBob]

And that, kids, is why mr game and watch is flat

[@kharmachaos667]

brilliant

[@fade6827]

Naw fam

[@kharmachaos667]

CrazedSKW Ya fam

[@wosh2nd68]

Didn't consider that posibillity

[@timetodie3439]

yes

[@Ensanity21]

question is... can I get a shirt of this?

[@martindoyle1575]

I DONT KNOW.

[@Rjocz]

[GD] Ensanity if you wanna cook yourself yes

[@sylvie6327]

Eerm... On problem.... It would cost $1000+

[@avilude]

Autistico It's hot but actually not much hotter than soil.

[@Summergch]

You can't cuz that guy they said has the ONLY rights to use it. Use it on clothes counts as "artistic use" so if you coat some clothes with it, he'd sue you, and I've heard he's like SUPER leechly kind of person, so yes, even if you only used it on one shirt he'd sue you just cuz he can

[@timothym2011]

I'm going to paint my mustang this and nickname it the void

[@arbresnow401]

nice humblebrag

[@KevMisterCreations]

I'm 16 and so excited. I could look like a 2d shadow on a wall

[@loganpowell2951]

You do realize that he said he would be excited if he had this at 16 is because he could make boners look 2 dimensional or flat, right?

[@KevMisterCreations]

What?

[@jon1851]

+Logan Powell what does that have to do with anything?

[@TheMrBeast562]

+Jon Williams what does Kevin's age have anything to do with this? Idiots... If you two paid attention at 3:28 you'll understand

[@jon1851]

+TheMrBeast562 he said nothing about boners

[@benburdick9834]

If it absorbs that much light, shouldn't it heat up a lot?

[@WindingDreams]

It'd get hot in sunlight I presume. Imagine a black leather car seat, just way hotter.

[@benburdick9834]

Max Dahguy Even if it's not in sunlight, it should still absorb the photons in the visible spectrum, which have enough energy to heat it up significantly, don't you think?

[@WindingDreams]

Well I just drew that parallel cause it's the one I'm familiar with. I have no idea what would happen but I feel as if it wouldn't be enough

[@benburdick9834]

Max Dahguy Yeah, the visible spectrum is pretty small, it's likely that the increase in temperature would be pretty negligible. But, this does bring up the question, what would vantablack look like in the infrared spectrum?

[@ulfvonweimuller4433]

Absorbtion is only like 4% more than new asphalt. So it would heat up roughly 4% more effectively.

[@alexandermoriarty9167]

I loved the idea! If it is used at night you can become invisible with this thing or scare many people! (They'll think you're a seeing a ghostly or a living shadow ) Can also be used as research material to create the perfect photovoltaic cell! And lastly, if this even absorbs all or almost all of the electromagnetic waves, and if it does not absorb can be perfected to absorb, it can leave a plane totally invisible!

[@fulanodetal3614]

Alexander Moriarty Not invisible. It'd have to be clear to be invisible. No light means complete darkness, not crystal clarity.

[@roboticfuzzball179]

Alexander Moriarty l

[@fliasc2018-kq4fo]

Or you can be inside a room that is completely covered in vantablack and then use a suit that is made of vantablack and, BOOM You are invisible

[@JonathanLong]

I want to paint a room with this, to make a black hole room

[@danijel124]

Jonathan Long thats actually a sweet idea xd

[@jeff-ue2vw]

Jonathan Long sweet idea if you want to fry to death when it hits 90 degrees

[@chiraldude]

I have not worked with Vantablack but have worked with other high absorbing surface treatments. The trick for high absorption materials is that they have a gradual change in refractive index as light penetrates the surface. If all the nanotubes were exactly the same length, it would be much more reflective. Instead, there is a nice even distribution of lengths so the light first hits the tallest nanotubes, then encounters more and more as it moves into the material. Light sees a gradual (smooth) refractive index change so it keeps on moving down deeper, never actually "seeing" an interface that would cause a reflection. Of course the nanotubes themselves interact directly with photons by absorbing and eventually converting the energy to heat.

[@turbopokey]

This would make the coolest stealth suit ever! (might get a little warm, though.)

[@Ruuutard]

It's actually too black and would stand out. You would look like a walking black hole

[@turbopokey]

+SplunK ing --well,yeah... would have to be used at night.

[@efrain6140]

+Turbo Pokey Even at night someone wearing this material would stick out.

[@snkline]

Not only would this stick out quite dramatically at night like others have said, even normal black clothing tends to stick out at night. If you really want to be stealthy at night for some reason, you want dark blue, not black.

[@dooplon5083]

snkline This guy. This guy gets it.

[@Wonkerloop]

UK: Vanta-Black US: duhhhhh, SUPER BLACK

[@muqarrab8736]

+Nathan Conder : You must be from US ;)

[@neilisbored2177]

Super black My favorite SNES game

[@Sammyv17]

"This is what I call a Vanta Saiyan 3." Yeah that sounds terrible.

[@hirocheeto7795]

Hm, yes, turn this into an overused "All Americans are idiots because reasons" joke.

[@Agate717]

Sammyv17 you forgot the screaming

[@hellreptile]

Finally they can make a hoodie that blends my body to the dark nights and my soul...

[@cthulhu7592]

Reşat seyhanoglu Damn dude.

[@hellreptile]

LeafyIsBeefy​ (Actually Im a colorful person but that hoodie would look good with my custom made masks)

[@arbresnow401]

edgy

[@jak4004]

I really want a morph suit made of this

[@jak4004]

#ninja

[@MrGallade475]

You would look like Mr. Game & Watch

[@dooplon5083]

MrGallade475 A worthy change.

[@jacksonreid4824]

Doritos: The Dankest Material Ever Made

[@ArgusDex]

I want a tuxedo made out of it, with the vest and undershirt also in the same material, but the tie white.

[@boghara1118]

paint a wall with vantablack. then cover a full-body suit with vantablack. stand infront of the wall with the suit on and bam -- *you're invisible!*

[@boghara1118]

Well if you did the rest of the room, nobody would see you anyway. just the floor

[@boghara1118]

Acknowledged... one wall and the floor is close enough.

[@dreadcthulhu5]

I see a red door and I want to paint it vantablack.

[@boghara1118]

+djancak oh my god that would be awful to get stuck in

[@petergriffin9554]

build a wall. then stand behind it. *you're invisible!*

[@Leelicious1312]

I thought Charlie Murphy was the darkest thing in the universe. RIP brother darkness

[@sleet1650]

Hide 'n' seek : Vantablack Edition Coming soon.... Probably

[@Summergch]

It is actually so black you can see it at night cuz it's darker than usual darkness

[@gafeht]

16 year old you would be really excited about a dress that was completely black? I'm not sure what that means.

[@CowTipper898]

Pants that are completely black

[@Direultimatum]

It would of his his boners.

[@Direultimatum]

hid

[@MysticKenji2]

Maybe he was a goth kid?

[@pujasingh-sw8cd]

Portably emo or goth

[@jankfoot88]

Would you see the dot of a laser pointer on it?

[@1234macro]

Yes, you would.

[@bignatec1000]

+Lord Geezmo no actually you can't. There is a video that shows it somewhere

[@Nec89]

I would like to see this tested. Seeing how a laser is concentrated light Id guess no because even the small amount of light actually being reflected would be undetectable by the human eye in normal light conditions. Maybe in a dark room but i doubt it. Also given that a laser is concentrated would the heat it generated be enough to start a fire to the material?

[@jankfoot88]

Guys look up red laser on vantablack!!

[@ramosveronica32]

Just looked it up .... WHOA! lol

[@Nichigo-here]

so that's what the bat suit is made of...

[@josephlyons9338]

Neil Christian Go obviously lol

[@samber5009]

Batman: "breathing heavily"

[@Punkledunk]

I immediately thought of Muslim women wearing burkas made of vantablack

[@maryamali8586]

Lol, please don't give Muslim men any ideas. You never know what tomfoolery they'd come up with to hide women further.

[@josephfox9221]

that would be hot... temperature wise.

[@emko333]

what they need is that invisibility cloak technology so they effectively don't exist outside of sex with husband, you know a perfect world :)

[@josephfox9221]

Haleigh Redifer im christian and I can see the Deacons wearing this

[@josephfox9221]

Haleigh Redifer Science greatest contribution is Fashion. yeah yeah, atomic energy, longevity, near endless communication are all nice but fashion is where its at

[@karebu2]

Just got my car resprayed in vantablack, never had a ticket since.

[@skyfox2207]

Interesting... You'd think because it's black, they'd chase after it even more! /s

[@johannalromero378]

Lol

[@castrelspirit]

+Skyfox2207 OHHHHHHHHHHH!

[@Creaform003]

The funny thing about this is it's probably true. They absorb all visible light, meaning they would probably absorb the radio waves from the radar gun, making your speed undetectable.

[@karebu2]

And oh, I don't care about dents

[@ZebraF4CE]

That "Two" at 0:50 is the funniest thing i've seen all day

[@benlang1678]

Ok that alumni foil is just trippy

[@dusaprukiyathan1613]

Wow, the foil is an alumni!? I never knew foil could be that smart.

[@thefacebiters]

Fuck yeah, I want a Vantablack suit.

[@thefacebiters]

I mean like a business suit, with titanium oxide white trim.. Apparently though I'm reading Cyphochilus and Lepidiota stigma beetles are actually the whitest things known currently. www.designntrend.com/articles/18038/20140815/scientists-find-the-purest-whitest-white-in-beetles.htm

[@thecommenter87]

just dont wear it on a hot day unless you want to be medium well human steak

[@thefacebiters]

I am a human steak XD.

[@thefacebiters]

OoooooooooooooOoooo, the darkness.

[@AidanRatnage]

Could you say that it's 'Darker Than Black'?

[@zappaplaysminecraft6727]

No, because it is black.

[@AidanRatnage]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darker_than_Black

[@quintinbassett9467]

+Aidan Ratnage nah pretty sure it's still just black

[@dylanbarkhuizen7227]

Best show

[@that1lemon80]

Fucking best pun for an amazing anime I love all of you for this

[@liyeh7141]

Your facts are right beside one fact - the reason that light does not hit inside the nanotube is due to the fact that the nanotubes are closed at both ends, so the light hits between the nanotubes but not inside of it.

[@lilac392]

Now we just need the whitest thing on Earth.... Oh wait nm I’m here

[@ANGEL-bx4il]

Holy crap.

[@alejandromarquez8280]

The brightest thing would make you blind as it would reflect almost all of the light straight into your eyes

[@dusaprukiyathan1613]

I think that's called a mirror?

[@alejandromarquez8280]

DuSAprukiyathan True

[@fxdj4846]

Total internal reflection

[@sizor3ds]

so vantablack wall + vantablack clothes = invisible?

[@ThavronMakes]

Your head and exposed parts of your body would appear to float, yes. Like a well designed green (or blue) screen.

[@sizor3ds]

that would look so cool

[@daviddevora4325]

= shadow

[@camicus-3249]

Surely this would work MUCH better than a green screen, just a "little" more expensive. You would never have to worry about creases :o

[@BrianHuynhPersonal]

+Camicus - your right !!

[@VincentOak]

So this stuff is like super into chicken and watermelon?

[@jaec100x]

+Justifyed Mattitude but it's not into being racist scrawny and powerless and oh very very white

[@awalzs4776]

+theprojacob catch this nut

[@KokoMbella]

Vantablack lives matter

[@smitty1647]

+theprojacob this guy confirms whites have no power. guess that'll put an end to the accusations of racial hegemony against francis the pot smoking pizza hut driver

[@KokoMbella]

who is talking about whites? he only mentioned Vantawhites. Bay the way Vantablack males swing long Ds and love Vantawhite women

[@Shrrby]

I would love a tattoo or something made from the stuff, all the different lines and such would look so cool

[@SantaBarbaraInfrared]

Thanks for the quality video and explaining it without getting too off target. Great video.

[@Moscato_Moscato]

No the darkest material is my soul...

[@SrLupinotuum]

You mean... *Dark souls*?

[@omegasrevenge]

edgy

[@sephimaru2198]

We finally found the Furtive Pygmy.

[@Art_From_Tezikovka]

Rorschach profile

[@iota-09]

+Josh G that's dark.

[@DecayedPony]

I want a house or a car coated in this.

[@mrtyki2046]

wouldn't that be asking for car accidents

[@AvangionQ]

A car might make judging distances difficult for others on the road, increased chance of collisions.

[@DecayedPony]

OF course it wouldn't be practical, just would look neat. :(

[@PrinceRules64]

I can see where you're coming from, I also think it would look amazing. The safety concerns are legitimate, but just make it not road legal, track-only, it would still be astonishing to witness.

[@DecayedPony]

Drag racing Void cars!

[@ideoformsun5806]

This would be great for coating solar water heating tubes, and hot water tanks. It would be great painted on shields on a south facing wall, to warm up a structure. I think it would make a warmer winter hat.

[@takyon9167]

I would love having a hoodie made out of this, I really hope they are able to apply it to fabric.

[@TheCuriousNoob]

Carbon nanotubes seem to be the answer to everything. What CAN'T they do?

[@MovieMaker1040]

Do they blend?

[@HotCoals]

They can't bring my dad back... :(

[@HotCoals]

william *Sobs*

[@wiertara1337]

They can't escape from the lab

[@lolioliol360]

see why kids love the taste of cinammon toast crunch.

[@ve2vfd]

Paint my car with that stuff now!!! :D

[@myrobotfish]

^this

[@mattakudesu]

I would thing that this stuff would turn your car into an oven even on a somewhat cool day with all the light it would absorb.

[@marcorodvas]

black cars are involved in most car accidents tho

[@zeroforconduct8008]

I thought it was red cars that are accidental

[@MorgurEdits]

Don't drive at night.

[@OmegaLol21]

Shouldn't vantablack be called dark black?

[@dusaprukiyathan1613]

Or "Basically Black"

[@HayTatsuko]

Cool, so now we know the coating that makes Hotblack Desiato's spaceship look so awesome!

[@WarriorWildhead1337]

Would this not get hot as hell when exposed to light? Or does all of the empty space provide ventilation?

[@MaxUltimata]

Carbon is very good at conducting heat, but it's less conductive than any of the standard metals out there like nickel and steel, so it won't get as hot as the surface of a car on a hot summer day.

[@KambEight]

When you're talking about spaces that tiny, "ventilation" doesn't even make sense as a concept. I suspect it would get warm.

[@RobKinneySouthpaw]

Not only would it get hot, but I suspect that it would be great as a coating for a cooking vessel at the center of a solar oven.

[@WarriorWildhead1337]

KambEight Yeah, in retrospect, it did sound kind of foolish...

[@MesserTAMU]

Conducting heat and perceived temperature are two different things. The metal on your car on a sunny day is no hotter than a peace of wood, it just transfers the heat to your hand faster so it feels hotter. As far as the original comment, black already absorbs light and turns it to heat. And seeing as normal black paint absorbs like 95% of light and this absorbs 100, I imagine it would heat up about 5% faster than something painted a dark black.

[@RagePunk88]

imagine tattoo with that stuff used as ink

[@FXM420]

Eye contacts made of this. Probably not possible but it would be cool

[@Solarbeholder]

+SarahSoAwesome since it absorbs all the light you wouldn't be able to see

[@FXM420]

StarGazer They could cover the pupil with whatever they use to make contacts black normally and the rest with this stuff

[@TheMohawkNinja]

Oh, damn. Somebody wearing those full-eye contacts made of this stuff is nightmare material.

[@trilight3597]

~400d heat...yeah no thanks.

[@Brownyman]

These prequel episodes of "The Expanse" are getting really good!

[@JohnSmith-qy2fh]

But it probably gets dog hair on it a lot

[@thememester1190]

John Smith vantablack isn't any kind of fiber, did you even watch the video moron?

[@kantyran6449]

The Memester Gangster But it's stuff. Dog hair gets on everything. No matter what. Stop insulting people

[@krashd]

Where did he say it was a fiber, Gangster? Idiot.

[@KazimierzRat]

@@thememester1190 Edgy

[@runedeath177]

What is the whitest material then.

[@Razzfazz87]

That would be TIR or Total Internal Reflection.

[@kimberleymadero6206]

americans

[@ThatOneGuy0006]

Vanilla Ice.

[@johnrogers4983]

By whitest you might mean the one who reflects the most light, then i'd say a mirror is the oposite of this :) A very very very very very very very very very polished mirror.

[@jackbaxter2223]

Drinking a Pumpkin Spice latte

[@Yisrael_Teshuvah]

If vantawhite was thing, would it be able to absorb all light and make objects invisible?

[@mylifenowabbie7915]

Lol ADHD to the fullest. Hehe no offence though

[@spoonikle]

um no. it would be a mirror not white.

[@furybeast68]

+spoonikle hahaha um no itd be a mirror😂😂😂💀

[@jackwall9161]

+Jack Hurt I'm da better Jack

[@chaotixthefox]

As people have said, it would be a mirror. Reflecting all light that hits it.

[@Ady00pk]

I want a T-shirt and a Hoodie made from Vantablack!!! *Just take my money*

[@Niek31]

How can you see this on your screen, the pixels can't go darker then off right? Or is it just the contrast of the venta black and the background?

[@nayibnoyola9438]

Cover your body with it you'll be a fucking ninja

[@Idealismsu]

Imagine someone covering themselves on vantablack and robbing someone during nighttime or lights off.. Holy shit that's scary.

[@cedricthompson686]

Covering yourself in vantablack would be a terrible way to hide. Even in the dead of night, you'd form a hard outline that would be easy to discern from your surroundings. Real ninjas didn't even wear black because it was too high contrast. They wore dark blue. Of course, if you just want to be anonymous, vantablack is perfect.

[@loubrady5541]

Ninjas didn't wear the costumes at all, they dressed like ordinary people, because their advantage was blending in, nothing stands out more than a dude in a dark costume.

[@dunn0r]

Also, you'd probably be quite crunchy. ~400°C remember? Wearing clothing made of it? Would make you look surreal as hell, but not hide you very well. It's not really camouflage if you stand out because look like a hole in reality.

[@gregistopal]

+dunn0r then paint your car with it

[@yonkiriati]

if we would make solar panels out of vantablack, would it be more efficient?

[@Kaepsele337]

If it would transfer the absorbed energy to electricity instead of heat, then yes. But it doesn't.

[@yonkiriati]

Guest6265+ how does solar panels transfer the energy to electricity anyways?

[@Amigo21189]

Some use photoelectric chemistry to do the light-to-electricity trick. Others are thermoelectric, in which case this stuff would work vantastically well.

[@PoppingCobble]

Ahh puns

[@XPimKossibleX]

nooooo it would work 7% better than chalk board black.

[@weirdflexbutok.7262]

Imagine a bedroom with the walls cover of this and the furnitures in grey. I WANT THIS

[@bradleyholmes7687]

I would LOVE an entire wardrobe made of Vantablack!!

[@RussianPowerful]

So black that it even steals light

[@casualcommenter9730]

I feel like this material is going to make it look like someone is just a walking talking silhouette. FULL

[@casualcommenter9730]

Full Vantablack suit y'all!

[@grantlauzon5237]

It would be dangerous to put it on a car because some of the cars depth would be lost. Is that a big car far away or a small car up close.

[@casualcommenter9730]

Also true, also awesome, science is awesome, I like science

[@jonfitz8280]

Black tees bout to be lit this summer

[@xqiuvmah]

Tactical clothes with this stuff would be incredibly useful for night missions

[@DummyAccount]

Still a better love story than Twilight :v

[@Tytoalba777]

Darker and edgier too

[@highlander123100]

Though you can't tell if it is edgy...

[@smitty1647]

i thought twilight was about a soulless creature deciding what kind of spooky dick she wants in her

[@manguy01]

Would this have any applications for solar panels?

[@grantlauzon5237]

I don't think so. Maybe you could use its heat absorbing power to build some sort of steam engine. Like geothermal or nuclear energy.

[@josephfox9221]

sense it absorbs light it couldnt be used for geo or nuke. its cool but frankly I dont see any other application except anti detection for aircraft and telescopes

[@CasMullac]

Yeah my thoughts exactly. Not photovoltaic, the ones that heat water. Not sure if you have seen them dotted around on houses, they are the ones that look like a row of tubes.

[@ShaunHusain]

there are solar collectors that focus light onto a dark liquid which is then used to boil water to turn a turbine so maybe useful in that way. there is also research in using similar nano tech in solar panels to absorb more wavelengths of light

[@josephfox9221]

CasMullac maybe water tubes could work. but would the transfer from light to heat to im guessing mechanical to electric be as cheap and as efficient as photo-voltaic? im sure in a few months we will see a study

[@Gytiss93]

why dont CNT's just burn away in such hot temperatures? do they do it in Argon, Nitrogen atmospheres or vacuum? if so wouldnt the blackness of the material vanish with time as it would oxidise as it heats up from the light.

[@laimonassileika2285]

CNT's is the answer you're looking for. The bond strength is hilariously high for this stuff, and in order to oxidise in any way the bonds have to be severed first. CNT's aren't Halagenoalkanes so Nucleophiles don't have any effect on them. So oxidisation can only occur via enthalpy change or ionization... hence the 705K temperature required to make it. Or the 1025K for NASA's version. But then, bonding with gasses would set the CNT's off like napalm. Probably not a fluorine fire, but close enough :)

[@Tatusiek_1]

laimonas šileika hey you are Lithuanian! and yes it is effect :D

[@laimonassileika2285]

Lietuvis?

[@laimonassileika2285]

cheers :)

[@Tatusiek_1]

laimonas šileika taip

[@000snow000]

I need this as an eyeliner stat.

[@billyblackattacks]

i want some vantablack curtains!

Where can I order a couple of cans for my wifes car? No dents no problem.

[@BlueBD]

and everyone else will see a black void driving on rhe roads lol that seems hilarious

[@cheddar262]

Interestingly, that might be a way to get around lidar as well. Radar would work fine, but lidar wouldn't detect anything there.

[@bartz0rt928]

The lack of reflection would make it hard for other drivers to accurately judge their distance to the car. You won't see them, but you'll end up with more dents this way.

[@XDogeGamingX]

after months have searching I have finally found the color of my soul

[@xumo4732]

I would LOVE to have one of those capes with hoods that reach down to my feet but are made of vantablack.

[@theslavegamer]

Still brighter then my future.