Black Butterfly Wings Can Help Improve Solar Cell Function (8 of 9) (IMAGE)

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Black Butterfly Wings Can Help Improve Solar Cell Function (8 of 9)

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Scientists from KIT and Caltech utilize the disordered nanoholes of the black butterfly to improve solar cell performace. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 18 Oct. 2017, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by R.H. Siddique at California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, Calif., and colleagues was titled, "Bioinspired phase-separated disordered nanostructures for thin photovoltaic absorbers."

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[Credit: Radwanul Hasan Siddique, KIT/Caltech]

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