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Out of curiosity, can this approach be used to other wavelengths?



Yes. It's the same principle that is used in both microwave and audio anechoic chambers. The pyramidal spikes on the walls [1] of an anechoic chamber are much bigger equivalents of the nanotube spikes being used for light.

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0a/Radio-fr...


"black" is not a wavelength of light. It's the absence of light.


What I think the question is, is whether it's possible to create a surface of light that reflects only a very specific (range of) wavelengths; that would be quite interesting actually. Highly accurate colors and such.


A Dichroic Filter is an example of what you describe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dichroic_filter




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