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Well they say it doesn't rely on pigments, so I'm inclined to think it uses some sort of nano-structures, like "improved" vantablack. Like a forest where light goes in, but just get's scattered long before it can make its way back out. Ben did a really nice video about that homemade stuff, including (of course) some electron microscope images.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr1AiExSAnU



Maybe the cut cell acts like a hemispherical shell coated in carbon. Light enters, bounces around inside a couple of times, gets absorbed?




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