Green Options » solar collectors http://greenoptions.com/tag/solar-collectors Posts tagged 'solar collectors' Fri, 06 Feb 2009 22:35:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en New Solar Cell Design Inspired By Butterfly Wings http://ecoscraps.com/2009/02/06/new-solar-cell-design-inspired-by-butterfly-wings/ http://ecoscraps.com/2009/02/06/new-solar-cell-design-inspired-by-butterfly-wings/#comments Fri, 06 Feb 2009 22:35:42 +0000 Amy Bell http://ecoscraps.com/2009/02/06/new-solar-cell-design-inspired-by-butterfly-wings/ The recent discovery that butterfly wings have tiny scales that act as solar collectors has led scientists in Japan and China to design a more efficient solar cell that could be used for power in the future.

Using natural butterfly wings as a template, the scientists were able to make copies of the solar collecting scales and transfer those to dye-sensitive solar cells.

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