Engineered biomimicry for harvesting solar energy: a bird's eye view

Figures & data

Top view and higher magnification (inset) images from a scanning electron microscope of an ordered hollow urchin-like structure of ZnO nanowires [11]. Courtesy of Dr. J. Elias (EMPA Materials Science and Technology).

Scanning electron microscope image of the compound eye of a fly.

Tilted image on a scanning electron microscope of a templating array of 360-nm-diameter spheres of silica and the silicon nipples etched underneath. Courtesy of Prof. P. Jiang (University of Florida).

Schematic of the Nano4Bio technique.

Elias , J. , évy-Clément , C. L , Bechelany , M. , Michler , J. , Wang , G.-Y. , Wang , Z. and Philippe , L. 2010 . Hollow urchin-like ZnO thin films by electrochemical deposition . Adv. Mater. , 22 : 1607 – 1612 .

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