Lasers Creates New Forms of Metal and Enhances Aircraft Performance: "Dr. Chunlei Guo and his team of Air Force Research Laboratory-funded researchers from the University of Rochester are using laser light technology that will help the military create new forms of metal that may guide, attract, and repel liquids and cool small electronic devices.
The researchers discovered a way to transform a shiny piece of metal into one that is pitch black, not by paint, but by using incredibly intense bursts of laser light.
Dr. Guo and his team have been working on creating technology that may enable the Air Force to create an additional kind of metal. The black metal they created absorbs all radiation that shines upon it. With the creation of the black metal, the researchers opened up a whole new horizon for various applications in creating an entirely new class of material."
