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Ultra-black generally means a shade of black that reflects 0.5% of light or less. The most cutting edge nanotechnologies are only now starting to unravel how to create these void-like blacks, so how do animals like fish, butterflies, spiders, and birds do it? And why?
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Sources:
https://www.mbari.org/news/fresh-from-the-deepmbari-scientists-film-elusive-dreamer-anglerfish-in-4k/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGOJZsiEAC4
https://news.mit.edu/2019/blackest-black-material-cnt-0913
https://www.nature.com/articles/nmat4633
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ih2_KqBrY8s
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-15033-1.pdf
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(20)30860-5
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/lpor.201300142
https://spie.org/samples/PM229.pdf
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/B9780123860224000066
https://www.pantone.com/color-finder/BLACK-C
https://www.colorxs.com/color/pantone-black-c
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2019.0589
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-02088-w.pdf
https://genent.cals.ncsu.edu/insect-identification/order-lepidoptera/family-papilionidae/
https://academic.oup.com/mt/article-abstract/28/6/8/6813774
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0005273620301498
https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.0900155106
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10641-023-01452-8
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1098/rstb.1993.0058
https://academic.oup.com/aesa/article-abstract/78/2/252/2758839
https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/home/species/3920#summary
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/317065-Cyclothone-acclinidens
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0008622323006346
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0734975014001517
https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciadv.1700232
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Images:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SkyvIsXI6KMrZ_A4jLtx3WXywVJE2On2EAhy0bJ39ik/edit?tab=t.0
Ultra-black generally means a shade of black that reflects 0.5% of light or less. The most cutting edge nanotechnologies are only now starting to unravel how to create these void-like blacks, so how do animals like fish, butterflies, spiders, and birds do it? And why?
Subscribe to the pin club here: https://complexly.store/products/bizarre-beasts-pin-subscription
This month's pin is designed by Víctor Meléndez. You can find out more about him and his work here: https://victormelendez.com/
You can cancel any time by emailing hello@dftba.com
Learn more about the ocean with MBARI here: https://www.youtube.com/@MBARIvideo
Learn more about peacock spiders here: https://www.peacockspider.org/
Follow us on socials:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bizarrebeastsshow/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BizarreBeastsShow/
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/bizarrebeastsshow.bsky.social
#BizarreBeasts #ultrablack
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Sources:
https://www.mbari.org/news/fresh-from-the-deepmbari-scientists-film-elusive-dreamer-anglerfish-in-4k/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGOJZsiEAC4
https://news.mit.edu/2019/blackest-black-material-cnt-0913
https://www.nature.com/articles/nmat4633
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ih2_KqBrY8s
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-15033-1.pdf
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(20)30860-5
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/lpor.201300142
https://spie.org/samples/PM229.pdf
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/B9780123860224000066
https://www.pantone.com/color-finder/BLACK-C
https://www.colorxs.com/color/pantone-black-c
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2019.0589
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-02088-w.pdf
https://genent.cals.ncsu.edu/insect-identification/order-lepidoptera/family-papilionidae/
https://academic.oup.com/mt/article-abstract/28/6/8/6813774
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0005273620301498
https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.0900155106
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10641-023-01452-8
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1098/rstb.1993.0058
https://academic.oup.com/aesa/article-abstract/78/2/252/2758839
https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/home/species/3920#summary
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/317065-Cyclothone-acclinidens
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0008622323006346
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0734975014001517
https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciadv.1700232
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Images:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SkyvIsXI6KMrZ_A4jLtx3WXywVJE2On2EAhy0bJ39ik/edit?tab=t.0
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