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Re:New carbon nanotube-metal hierarchical material is 10x da... by christopoulos on Saturday September 14, 2019 @07:48PM (#20974594)
Maybe we now can get true black on an LCD screen?
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Re:New carbon nanotube-metal hierarchical material is 10x da... by 2_listerine_pls on Saturday September 14, 2019 @07:57PM (#20974636)
LCDs don't work like that, they block the back-light with polarization:

http://soft-matter.seas.harvard.edu/index.php/Phase_transiti...

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Re:New carbon nanotube-metal hierarchical material is 10x da... by nine_k on Saturday September 14, 2019 @08:32PM (#20974777)
Maybe truer black on OLED screens, if OLEDs can be printed on a back plate like that.
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