VANTABLACK - The Darkest Material on Earth

Vantablack® is a super-black coating that holds the world record as the darkest man-made substance, it absorbs % of it’s light. Copyright Surrey NanoSystems. ► WHAT IS VANTABLACK? - Vantablack is not a black paint, pigment or fabric, but is instead a functionalised ‘forest’ of millions upon millions of incredibly small tubes made of carbon, or carbon nanotubes. Each nanotube in the vantablack forest has a diameter of around 20 nanometres (that’s about 3,500 times smaller than the diameter of the ave