Harvard Adds the Blackest Black to Its Historical Pigment Collection

The FORBES PIGMENT COLLECTION at the HARVARD ART MUSEUMS is an evolving archive of synthetic and natural pigments — each year brings additions representing innovations in color. One of the newest acquisitions is a sample of VANTABLACK, a superblack material which absorbs 99.965% of light. Read full article

Forbes – Hyundai’s Vantablack Pavillion

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What is this thing called Vantablack?

Ben Jensen, chief technology officer at the Surrey based tech company, NanoSystems, spoke exclusively to What Investment about the astounding advances it is making in nanotechnology, which ultimately offer unique VCT investment opportunities. Read full article

In the black: the world’s darkest material makes for a profitable investment – Octopus

Jo Oliver, the fund manager of Octopus Titan VCT, spoke exclusively to What Investment about an extraordinary hi-tech investment opportunity. Read full article

Why South Korea’s Biggest Auto Brand Isn’t Advertising Cars At Its Own Winter Olympics

This year, consumers across South Korea (and parts of the U.S. and Europe) will finally be able to buy the Hyundai Nexo, the company's latest hydrogen fuel cell vehicle (FCEV) that also possesses some self-driving capabilities. But any of the Nexo’s potential future owners weren't able to actually see the eco-friendly SUV at Hyundai’s pavilion at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics.
Here’s what they found instead: a massive building clad in Vantablack, one of the darkest materials on earth, and thousands of LEDs. And some rather forceful copywriting; “We moved the universe for everyone to experience the seed of new society,” narrates the pavilion’s introduction video over trance music. Read full article

Asif Khan reveals super-dark Vantablack pavilion for Winter Olympics 2018

Asif Khan has unveiled a pavilion at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympic Games in South Korea, described as the "darkest building on earth".
The BRITISH ARCHITECT spray-painted the 10-metre-high temporary structure with Vantablack VBx2, a substance that absorbs over 99 per cent of light. Read full article

Darkest material on Earth will create a ‘schism in space’ for the Winter Olympics

The British architect is using Vantablack VBx 2 (NOT Original Vantablack or Vantablack S-VIS as is reported here) for a building he describes as a "schism in space," which will be unveiled at the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea. Visitors will encounter it when entering the Olympic Park. This impossibly black building will have four curved walls, but from a distance, it will look like a slit of blackness. Read full article

Who’s behind art’s dark little secret, Vantablack?

When one scientist discovered a substance so black even NASA couldn't find it, the potential was game-changing. Yet, for all the applications, it was an art-world altercation that made the headlines. As the battle for Vantablack continues, GQ asks why Anish Kapoor's new project is still shrouded in mystery Read full article

ART FIGHT! THE PINKEST PINK VERSUS THE BLACKEST BLACK

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Vantablack has a wide (and invisible) Range of Applications

The material has been termed “blacker than black” and for a good reason. UK-based Surrey NanoSystems’ VantaBlack can absorb 99.96% of the radiation in the visible spectrum and even those beyond human sight, including UV and IR. While that is an astounding feat in its own right, Vantablack’s properties also give it excellent front-to-back thermal conduction and high thermal shock resistance. Read full article

Record Breaking Blackest Material Is So Dark It Cannot Be Analysed Using Spectroscopy

Recently, I have got hooked onto the ABC series ‘Once Upon A Time’ thanks to the arrival of Netflix in my life – it came as a package deal with the fiancé. I’m up to Season 3, and thought that things couldn’t possibly get darker than Peter Pan’s shadow, whose mysterious features are barely distinguishable, whose actions are deplorable, and whose voice is provided by the marvelous Marilyn Manson. How wrong I was. Read full article

This Object Has Been Sprayed With the World’s Blackest Material, and It’s Freaking Us Out

Well, we've finally cracked it. Scientists have finally figured out how to paint a portal to another dimension, as prophesied by Loony Tunes' THE ROADRUNNER. Who wants to try driving a (very small) truck right through that gaping void circle? Read full article