It also has "virtually undetectable levels of outgassing and particle fallout", which can contaminate the most sensitive imaging systems. The material conducts heat seven and a half times more effectively than copper and has 10 times the tensile strength of steel.
i was thinking if it cannot be an outer coating perhaps in a layered approach with a titanium or other suitable outer skin with this stuff forming inner layer to conduct heat from the skin to a heat sink or to a heat exchanger with coolant loops or something like that.
There is no indication on the article regarding absorption vs wavelength. It might not be so good at UV or IR.Regarding the astronomy cameras application, I am guessing they are talking about Bias and Dark frames for calibration, but I don't see much improvement there. Cameras are covered for those. Of course the surrounding electronics (and the CCD itself) generate some "light", especially in IR, so a near black cover would not reflect them back to the CCD. Stuff like this cannot be close to a CCD because it can contaminate it with microscopic particles. Sure, you can isolate them, but then the material used for isolation is not so "dark".
While Surrey Nanosystems hasn't put out full info, their home press release indicates some characteristics. It's marginally better than that Independent fluff piece.http://www.surreynanosystems.com/news/19/and here's a paperhttps://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-22-6-7290&origin=search
It's marginally better than that Independent fluff piece.
Quote from: Asteroza on 07/16/2014 12:05 am It's marginally better than that Independent fluff piece.Hey! Sometimes generic filler articles are all the notice you get that something new is out there.