CORALS - New strategies for harvesting solar energy using coral-inspired microgeometry

The CORALS project is concerned with capturing sunlight to harvest solar energy, and here nature is the expert. Tropical corals are surprisingly efficient at absorbing sunlight. This enables them to produce beautiful coral reefs with a complicated three-dimensional structure. The aim of our project is to understand the part of their structure and biological composition that makes them so good at harvesting solar energy, and then we would like to transfer this new knowledge into development of better solar cells.