The whitest paint in the world has been discovered at Purdue University, and now researchers announced that they found a way to make it thinner. This makes it light enough for use in automotive and ...

The same scientists at Purdue University have now developed whitest white 2.0 and the research has been published in the journal Cell Reports Physical Science. The new version is 2.5 times thinner ...

A special experimental white paint that recently made it into the Guinness World Records could one day help keep the world from heating up. John Yang explains from West Lafayette, Indiana. The ...

The world’s whitest paint just slimmed down, making the sunlight-reflecting pigment light enough to adorn planes, cars, and trains. Back in 2021, Xiulin Ruan, a mechanical engineering professor at ...

We already have the world’s blackest black—a color so dark that looking at it is like looking into a hole in the universe. Now, thanks to a team of scientists, we have the world’s whitest white—a ...

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When it comes to the cutting-edge material Vantablack the matter’s clearcut: there is “none more black” than it on Earth. Now, scientists at Purdue University have invented a white paint that is ...

Butterflies take flight as researchers create the world's lightest paint! University of Central Florida researcher Debashis Chanda has developed the world's lightest paint, inspired by butterflies.