FARNBOROUGH: Surrey nanotech specialist claims world record for blackest coating

How black is black? Blacker than it used to be and very nearly as black as it can get, according to the UK materials scientists behind a carbon nanotube coating they claim absorbs a world record 99.96% of incident radiation.

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