![]() ![]() Unlike Vantablack, the resulting paint is soluble in water and nontoxic. The paint is then finished with what they claim are new “nano-mattifiers,” which remove any shine from the paint. Semple and his colleagues claim that the polymer “is special because it has more available bonds than any other acrylic polymer being used in paints,” allowing more pigment density. Black 3.0 is made up of this pigment, combined with a custom acrylic polymer. The paint is based on a new pigment called Black Magick, whose exact composition they aren’t disclosing. According to Semple, it is the blackest, mattest, flattest acrylic paint available on the planet, capturing up to 99% of all the visible spectrum radiation. ![]() ![]() Now, Black 3.0 is out and available on Kickstarter for about $32 per 150ml tube. His first version, Black 2.0, wasn’t quite as black as Vantablack, since it only absorbed 95% of the visible light (Vantablack absorbs about 99%). So Semple decided to team up with paint makers and about 1,000 artists to develop and test a competitor to Vantablack. ![]()
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