BioInspired! So What? Now What!

"Dr. Darren Bagnall is a senior lecturer in Microelectronics in the Nanoscale Systems Integration Group of the School of Electronics and Computer Science at Southampton University.

With a team of three Post-Docs and eight PhD students, and a large numbers of project students, he is exploring a number of exciting nanotechnology themes, research is focused in five key areas:

 

• Photovoltaics
• Biomimetics
• Metamaterials
• Semiconductors
• Nanotechnology"

Dr. Bagnall work includes anti-reflective coatings and structural color.  His website includes many fascinating micrographs.  He recently delivered the presentation"Biomimetics and plasmonics: capturing all of the light" at the World Renewable Energy Congress (from Popular Logistics).