White butterflies as solar photovoltaic concentrators

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Shanks, Katie ^a   Senthilarasu, S ^a   Ffrench Constant, Richard H ^a   Mallick, Tapas K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIOPHYSICS; BODY POSTURE; BUTTERFLY; FLYING; MUSCLE; PHYSIOLOGY; POWER SUPPLY; PROCEDURES; SOLAR ENERGY; SUNLIGHT; TEMPERATURE; WING;

ANIMALS; BIOPHYSICS; BUTTERFLIES; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; MUSCLES; POSTURE; SOLAR ENERGY; SUNLIGHT; TEMPERATURE; WINGS, ANIMAL;

EID: 84938499206     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep12267     Document Type: Article

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