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🧵 Vantablack: The Colour War Between Artists

How the world’s darkest colour sparked a feud over creativity and control.

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Dec 17, 2024
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In the art world, colour is everything. But what happens when one artist claims exclusive rights to the darkest shade of black ever created? Here is a story about Ventablack.

Vantablack, a name derived from "Vertically Aligned NanoTube Arrays," is a synthetic material developed by British company Surrey NanoSystems in 2014. Ventablack is not a regular pa…

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