The blackest black paint ever

Man, people would rather knee jerk than read:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vantablack


https://news.artnet.com/art-world/anish-kapoor-vantablack-exclusive-rights-436610


https://www.surreynanosystems.com/news-media/videos


This is not your standard coatings industry black, because the black you thought was black in 2010 is not actually black enough. Please read and enjoy.

Further, others are trying to get even blacker

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vantablack

The blacker the better. 

I had an arts and crafts friend actually point me to this black coating.  I totally agree with Eric that not all black is created equal.  I had been trying to find a really good non-reflective coating for some wood boxes.  However, none of the finishes I tried really did what I wanted. 

The "clearbase" that iceageaudio tries to tell us is the only black is likely a combination of polyeurathane and a form of black dye.  This ends up being either gloss black or flat black.  Obviously, gloss black is highly reflective and ends up being very much like a mirror.  I have a B&W D3 speaker that i have to cover with a towel because it's piano black is so highly reflective that I am seeing a mirror image of my projected movie, lol.

The flat black paint I ended up going with still had a level of reflectivity which still caused problems because the box was so close to the edge of the screen - it was reflecting light from the screen.

This BLK 3.0 or Vanta Black type compound may have been the best solution, but at $22 for a small bottle, I was worried about how much I would have had to buy. lol.

Sorry, I posted the same link twice. What I meant to post was a 2019 article about MIT’s own research into the subject:

https://www.cnet.com/news/mit-unveils-new-blackest-black-material-and-makes-a-diamond-disappear/

What all these articles have in common is that while the reflected color spectrum may be the same across all true blacks, the total amount of reflected light is NOT.

What we called black in 2010 still had quite a bit of light reflectivity compared to the latest stealth blacks.