The color of automobiles appears when light falls on the painted sheet and it is this reflection that makes the vehicle white, yellow, red or blue. In 2019, the blackest X6 in history arrived in the automotive industry, from the hand of BMW. All because it was coated with a paint called Vantablack, which is expensive, sophisticated and until then reserved for optical instruments in orbit, such as the Hubble Space Telescope. Now a 911 appears in Japan, using similar paint to make it the blackest Porsche ever.
Vantablack absorbs 99.96% of the light that falls on it and, without light reflection, what you see is a stain as dark as it is unreal, almost as if it had been made in Photoshop. The explanation for this total “darkness” must be sought among the constituents of the paint, where microscopic pieces of carbon abound, more specifically carbon nanotubesoriented along its longitudinal axis, preventing them from reflecting any type of light.
This is the blackest car in the world. They do not believe?
If BMW used Vantablack paint on the X6 it exhibited at the 2019 Frankfurt Motor Show, produced by Surrey Nanosystems, this Porsche 911 was coated in a simpler, cheaper version of Vantablack, called Musou Black, made by Koyo Orient Japan. This Japanese ink reflects 0.6% of light, resulting in less “black” than Vantablack, but enough to create a very dark stain with shapes reminiscent of a 911.
Musou Black is a water-based acrylic paint that absorbs 99.40% of light, a few points below “Vanta”, which retains 99.96%. But if it’s not as sophisticated or efficient, painting a car will be good enough, at least if the goal is supposedly more competitive prices. Hubble and its successors continue to use, and pay for, Vantablack.
Watch the painting video here and if your Japanese is as “strong” as ours, skip straight to minute 5.30, when Misou Black starts to be applied to the 911 Turbo S. And then be amazed at the result:
Source: Observadora
