Soon enough Surrey Nanosystems was receiving all sorts of requests from people who wanted a piece of it. People were amazed by the depth of darkness achieved by Vantablack and wanted to know more. But once word got out about Vantablack, everyone wanted to know more about it. They were presenting their nanomaterial next to the Boeing Dreamliner, military jets, and a paragliding car so Jensen wasn’t expecting to make much of a splash. Surrey Nanosystems launched Vantablack at the Farnborough Airshow in 2014. Surrey Nanosystems decided to give this new flashy CNT a flashy name: “Vantablack,” which stands for Vertically Aligned Nano Tube Array… Black. We were trying to solve a calibration problem for space instruments using carbon nanotubes,” recalls Jensen. “ We weren’t looking to create the world’s blackest material. Surrey Nanosystems worked on it for years, and finally managed to develop a new reactor that allowed them to grow CNTs at a much lower temperature, and in doing so they accidentally created the darkest material in the world-one that trapped 99.965% of light. This extreme heat really limited what type of material, known as the substrate, that carbon nanotubes could be grown on. Carbon nanotube coatings could be really useful inside of satellites, telescopes, and optical imaging technology because they could absorb stray light that affected calibration, but CNTs weren’t like a paint that you applied onto something-they had to be literally grown onto a surface, in a special type of reactor at 700 degrees centigrade-which is so hot that it would damage most material. Back then, super-black pigments had a lot of promise in the space industry, but the technology wasn’t quite where it needed to be yet. And they’re the equivalent of about 3,000 feet tall.” Jensen began working in the nanomaterials field in 2004. And the grass is a carbon nanotube and about 1/ 6000th the thickness of your hair and there’s about a billion of them per square centimeter. Photo by Surrey NanosystemsĪs Ben Jensen, founder and CTO of Surrey Nanosystems explains, “It’s like a field of grass. CNT materials are made up of forests of these microscopic black carbon tubes. For reference, a single human hair is about 80-100 thousand nanometers wide. Carbon nanotubes are pretty much exactly what they sound like: tiny microscopic tubes comprised of black carbon atoms just a few nanometers in diameter. These super-blacks reach such extreme levels of darkness because they’re made up of something called carbon nanotubes, or CNTs. There are black pigments out there, and then there are SUPER-black pigments that are so dark, they need to be created in a laboratory. It was created by the tech industry for the tech industry, but this strange dark material would also go on to turn the art world on its head. Automatic bi-directional winding system with 18k red gold oscillating weight 3 day power reserve.If it looks unreal, it’s because Vantablack isn’t actually a color, it’s a form of nanotechnology. Movement, HMC 804 self-winding manufacture caliber, 32.0mm x 5.5mm, one minute flying tourbillon with skeletonized bridges in black PVD cage, cage wheel, balance bridge and escapement bridge made from aluminum frequency, 21,600 vph. Dial, Vantablack with black leaf-shaped hour and minute hands. The Moser Endeavour Tourbillon Vantablack Black Hands: case, black DLC-finished steel, 42mm x 11.6mm, sapphire crystals front and back. Strap, black alligator with steel pin buckle. Movement, hand-wound HMC 327 manufacture caliber. Vantablack dial with blackened leaf hands. The Moser Venturer Vantablack Black Hands XL: case, steel, 43.0mm x 11.9mm, sapphire front and back. Strap, black alligator with 18k gold pin buckle. Movement, hand-wound HMC 327 manufacture caliber, 32.0mm x 4.5mm running at 18,000 vph in 29 jewels 3 day power reserve Moser balance with Straumann hairspring. The Moser Venturer Vantablack Black Hands: case, 18k white gold, 39.0mm x 11.0mm with sapphire crystals front and back.
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