{"id":143674,"date":"2015-10-26T09:13:02","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T07:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=143674"},"modified":"2015-10-26T09:15:13","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T07:15:13","slug":"the-blackest-material-ever-created","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/science\/143674-the-blackest-material-ever-created.html","title":{"rendered":"The blackest material ever created"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from the King Abdulla University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2015-10-blackest-material.html\" target=\"_blank\">have created the blackest material ever made<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers explained that engineering broadband light absorbers is crucial to many applications, including energy-harvesting devices and optical interconnects.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe performances of an ideal absorber are that of a black body, a dark material that absorbs radiation at all angles and polarizations,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n<p>They described their breakthrough in a paper titled \u201c<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nnano\/journal\/vaop\/ncurrent\/full\/nnano.2015.228.html\">Harnessing structural darkness in the visible and infrared wavelengths for a new source of light<\/a><\/strong>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In the paper, they described a \u201cdisordered nanostructured material\u201d that shows an almost ideal black-body absorption of 98-99% between 400 and 1,400nm that is insensitive to the angle and polarization of the incident light.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on science<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/quick-news\/62076-diamond-planet-discovered.html\">Diamond planet discovered<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/quick-news\/41131-kepler-discovers-tatooine-like-planets.html\">Kepler discovers Tatooine-like planets<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of researchers have created the blackest material ever, absorbing between 98% and 99% of light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":115375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31750],"tags":[36,33560],"class_list":["post-143674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","tag-active","tag-black"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143674"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143678,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143674\/revisions\/143678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}