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Design and optical performance investigation of all-sprayable ultrablack coating

Chen Shen1,2,§, Huiyong Li1,3,§, Shuai Sun1,2, Hui Zhang1( ), Lanqin Yan1, Zhong Zhang1,4( )
CAS Key Laboratory of Nanosystem and Hierarchical Fabrication, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing 100190, China
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
Key Lab of Organic Optoelectronics and Molecular Engineering of Ministry of Education Laboratory of Flexible Electronics Technology, Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
CAS Key Laboratory of Mechanical Behavior and Design of Materials, Department of Modern Mechanics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230027, China

§ Chen Shen and Huiyong Li contributed equally to this work.

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We decouple different light extinction effects to different layers, design and prepare all-sprayable ultrablack coating, which ensures ultra-blackness, good substrate adhesion, and simple and scalable process technique simultaneously.

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Although ultrablack surfaces are urgently needed in wide applications owing to their extremely low reflectance over a broadband wavelength, obtaining simultaneously the ultrablackness and mechanical robustness by simple process technique is still a great challenge. Herein, by decoupling different light extinction effects to different layers of coating, we design an ultrablack coating that is all-sprayable in whole process. This coating presents low reflectance over visible–mid-infrared (VIS–MIR) wavelength (av. R ≈ 1% in VIS), low multi-angle scattering (bidirectional reflection distribution function (BRDF) = 10−2–10−3 sr−1), together with good substrate adhesion grade and self-cleaning ability, which are superior to most reported sprayable ultrablack surfaces. The light extinction effects of each layer are discussed. This method is also applicable in other material systems.

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ultrablackspray-coatingcarbon nanomaterialsmultiple scatteringintermediate layer

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Nano Research
Volume 16 Issue 12,
December 2023
Pages 12901-12909
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-023-5590-5
Cite this article:
Shen C, Li H, Sun S, et al. Design and optical performance investigation of all-sprayable ultrablack coating. Nano Research, 2023, 16(12): 12901-12909. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-023-5590-5
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Received: 26 December 2022
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