<story><title>Nxylon: New super-black material made from wood</title><url>https://news.ubc.ca/2024/07/ubc-super-black-wood-nxylon/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>digging</author><text>&amp;gt; Most surprisingly, Nxylon remains black even when coated with an alloy, such as the gold coating applied to the wood to make it electrically conductive enough to be viewed and studied using an electron microscope. This is because Nxylon’s structure inherently prevents light from escaping rather than depending on black pigments.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t follow this at all. If it&amp;#x27;s coated with an alloy, Nxylon isn&amp;#x27;t on the surface of the object anymore, the alloy is. So the alloy should be reflecting light. What am I missing?</text></comment>
<story><title>Nxylon: New super-black material made from wood</title><url>https://news.ubc.ca/2024/07/ubc-super-black-wood-nxylon/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>oniony</author><text>This, different article, &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.earth.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;new-super-black-wonder-wood-called-nyxlon-absorbs-almost-all-light&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.earth.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;new-super-black-wonder-wood-calle...&lt;/a&gt;, suggests the process is high-energy plasma affecting the cut ends of the basswood fibres.</text></comment>