Fly Eyes Used For Solar Cells 73
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samzenpus
from the windows-to-the-power-pole dept.
from the windows-to-the-power-pole dept.
disco_tracy writes "Researchers took corneas from blow flies, fixed them on a glass substrate, added a polymer to protect the shape and then coated nine-eye arrays in nickel within a vacuum chamber. The result was a master template that retained those useful nanoscale features and can be used to make solar cells."
So those nasty things might be useful? (Score:2, Interesting)