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White butterflies as solar photovoltaic concentrators

Man’s harvesting of photovoltaic energy requires the deployment of extensive arrays of solar panels. To improve both the gathering of thermal and photovoltaic energy from the sun we have examined the concept of biomimicry in white butterflies of the family Pieridae. We tested the hypothesis that the...

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Autores principales: Shanks, Katie, Senthilarasu, S., ffrench-Constant, Richard H., Mallick, Tapas K.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4521190/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26227341
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep12267

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