Painting a 747 with only 1.3 kg of paint vs 500 kg

EdFred said:
Too many hyperpolysyllabic words. Where's the plain English version
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In my post!

The science version is for those that want the evidence, something rare these days.
 
If you can place the entire Mooney inside a vacuum chamber. And not just any vacuum chamber, but an ultra-high-vacuum chamber, which requires baking the chamber and its contents.
 
All present commercial colors are based on pigments. While such traditional pigment-based colorants offer a commercial platform for large-volume and angle insensitiveness, they are limited by their instability in atmosphere, color fading, and severe environmental toxicity. Commercial exploitation of artificial structural coloration has fallen short due to the lack of design ideas and impractical nanofabrication techniques. Here, we present a self-assembled subwavelength plasmonic cavity that overcomes these challenges while offering a tailorable platform for rendering angle and polarization-independent vivid structural colors. Fabricated through large-scale techniques, we produce stand-alone paints ready to be used on any substrate. The platform offers full coloration with a single layer of pigment, surface density of 0.4 g/m2, making it the lightest paint in the world.
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EdFred said:
Too many hyperpolysyllabic words. Where's the plain English version
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Here's the English version:

Paint and ink are colored with pigments right now. They are easy to work with, but they suck because they react to air, fade, and are toxic. It has been way too hard to make fake pigments because the process used is way too fussy and no one has come up with any new ideas that are easier. This paper presents our idea of a way to make this work. The paint will be made in bulk, and will not need other products to combine with it. It will work for any angle or location and on any surface. Not only will the colors be very bright, it will be the lightest paint in the world, because it only needs one layer to be fully colored.

No words over three syllables. :D
 
SkyChaser said:
Here's the English version:

Paint and ink are colored with pigments right now. They are easy to work with, but they suck because they react to air, fade, and are toxic. It has been way too hard to make fake pigments because the process used is way too fussy and no one has come up with any new ideas that are easier. This paper presents our idea of a way to make this work. The paint will be made in bulk, and will not need other products to combine with it. It will work for any angle or location and on any surface. Not only will the colors be very bright, it will be the lightest paint in the world, because it only needs one layer to be fully colored.

No words over three syllables. :D
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now be honest, when reading "No words over three syllables", how many people counted the syllables in each word?
 
Not sure what the article is talking about but, Powder Coating has been available for a while now.

Vinyl Wrap is becoming more popular also.
 
NoHeat said:
If you can place the entire Mooney inside a vacuum chamber. And not just any vacuum chamber, but an ultra-high-vacuum chamber, which requires baking the chamber and its contents.
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Is it baking the Mooney too? Because that might be a problem. Otoh baking and then blowing off the soot makes for much quicker prep work than the elbow grease method

shoot, this still needs everything taped off
 
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Randomskylane said:
Is it baking the Mooney too? Because that might be a problem.
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Yes.

The paper mentions using ultrahigh vacuum. It doesn't delve into the inconvenience, but anyone who has used ultra-high vacuum is aware of the tremendous effort required including baking everything including the objects being treated, to remove all vestiges of adsorbed water vapor. It's vastly more involved than traditional paint-shop work of loading up a spray gun with paint from a bucket.
 
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