{"id":114944,"date":"2020-10-23T07:22:59","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T14:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/youve-heard-of-vantablack-scientists-just-created-super-white-and-its-very-cool"},"modified":"2020-10-23T07:22:59","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T14:22:59","slug":"youve-heard-of-vantablack-scientists-just-created-super-white-and-its-very-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/youve-heard-of-vantablack-scientists-just-created-super-white-and-its-very-cool","title":{"rendered":"You\u2019ve Heard of Vantablack. Scientists Just Created \u2018Super White\u2019, And It\u2019s Very Cool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/youve-heard-of-vantablack-scientists-just-created-super-white-and-its-very-cool3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have created a super white paint that is the yin to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/this-object-has-been-sprayed-with-the-world-s-blackest-pigment-and-it-s-freaking-us-out\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vantablack\u2019s yang<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While ultra black materials can today absorb <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-just-set-a-new-record-for-the-blackest-material-ever-created\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">more than 99.96 percent of sunlight<\/a>, this new super white coat can reflect 95.5 percent of all the photons that hit it.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of warming up under direct light, objects painted with this new acrylic material can remain cooler than their surrounding temperature even under the Sun, which could allow for a new energy-efficient way to control temperature inside buildings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have created a super white paint that is the yin to Vantablack\u2019s yang. While ultra black materials can today absorb more than 99.96 percent of sunlight, this new super white coat can reflect 95.5 percent of all the photons that hit it. Instead of warming up under direct light, objects painted with this new [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}