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Chemistry World March 29, 2011 |
A Single Scale Tells More Than a Whole Wing Scientists in China have made zinc oxide replicas of single scales from butterfly wings to understand and exploit their optical properties for sensor and solar cell applications. |
Chemistry World December 3, 2010 Harriet Brewerton |
Butterfly effect A way to identify individual butterflies from the same species has been designed by scientists in Hungary, who say that the technique could be used to analyse delicate museum samples without destroying them. |
Bank Systems & Technology June 1, 2010 Penny Crosman |
Science Behind Butterfly Wings Could Secure Bank Notes Cambridge scientists have developed the technology to recreate the colors on butterfly wings, and this technology could be used to secure printed notes, they say. |
IEEE Spectrum February 2012 Neil Savage |
Nanostructures Catch the Light Razor-thin solar cells could be cheap but need a little help holding light in |
Chemistry World October 21, 2015 David Bradley |
Blackest material ever made sets new record Andrea Fratalocchi of the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology and colleagues suggest that their broadband light absorbing material could open up new approaches to energy-harvesting devices and optical interconnects. |
Chemistry World June 17, 2010 Hayley Birch |
Keeping the heat up for super-efficient solar cells US scientists have found a way to siphon off the 'hot' electrons that are responsible for much of the energy lost in current solar cells. |
Chemistry World February 12, 2012 Laura Howes |
Thermal imaging on the wing By adding carbon nanotubes to butterfly wings chemists have been able to turn these nanostructures into an infrared detector. |
Food Engineering August 1, 2007 |
Combination scales Combination scales discharge product faster, increase product pass rate. |
IEEE Spectrum February 2006 Justin Mullins |
Butterfly Effect The structure that makes one LED researcher's device so special has recently been found to be similar to a sophisticated method of manipulating light discovered in the African swallowtail butterfly Princeps nireus. |