World's whitest insect spurs energy-saving ceramic design
Researchers have made a ceramic, inspired by the world’s whitest insect, that can reflect 99.6% of solar light aimed at it: a “near-perfect” reflectivity.
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Researchers have made a ceramic, inspired by the world’s whitest insect, that can reflect 99.6% of solar light aimed at it: a “near-perfect” reflectivity.
Researchers at the city university of hong kong come up with cooling ceramic tiles that imitate the bio-whiteness of the cyphochilus beetle.
A new fog harvester could benefit communities that lack access to clean freshwater.
Researchers at Dalian University of Technology suggest a design of copper nanowire assemblies that can considerably improve the defrosting and de-icing efficiency with no predictable energy input.
Raindrops, evaporating water, and even moisture in the air are all potentially sources of decentralized clean electricity generation, but many of the technologies that take advantage of this ambient and vast source of energy—many of which are inspired by the electricity harvesting techniques of plants and animals—remain at the lab-bench stage.