Fly Eyes Used For Solar Cells

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."

Comments

So those nasty things might be useful?

[scottbomb]

I've often wondered why God made such a worthless, pesky creature. To give us solar power?! I gotta admit, this is very interesting.