Painting with carbon nanotubes, the blackest black paint. | Jason Chase | TEDxNaperville

Your sense of vision will be severely challenged.
Jason Chase highlights his projects using “singularity black”, a carbon nanotube paint that’s one of the darkest substances known to humankind.
Jason Chase is the artist-in-residence at NanoLab in Waltham, Massachusetts where he specializes in the use of Singularity Black, a carbon nanotube paint developed by NanoLab for NASA that has the lowest visible reflectance of any paint available.
Since 2017, Chase’s residency has involved expanding the use of the substance through NanoLab’s Singularity school, guiding artists in how to use the substance best. He also advises the lab on how to improve the substance and adapt more of their technology to the art world.
Chase was also instrumental in developing the world’s first carbon nanotube oil paint, Gravity Black, and a soon-to-be-released hue-less white paint. His hand-painted samples of these materials are now part of the Forbes Harvard Pigment collection and the Yale pigment collection. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

[@svarturormur]

Thank you for sharing about your art so sensitively Jason!

[@JoshuaAMG]

Rest easy Jason. You're one of the best professors and artists I've ever met 🙏

[@jemisonfaust928]

Such a clear description of the product tied in a sensitive way to your life as an artist. Kudos to you, Jason!

[@Heavy69Metal]

I want to try the avantablack on a Motocycle, BUT I want to make it where it’s in an epoxy enamel flat or matte and have that 98 plus non reflectance how do I go about this?

[@MichaelGondry]

He says over and over again how great it is that it is available to all but it's really only available to the wealthy. Same rhetorical argument Republicans love to use.