Biologically inspired Engineering

We start our journey by praising the sun. The sun with its life supporting characteristics stands in the beginning of all our efforts. The energy, which the sun radiates, is one of the essential building blocks for life on Earth as the scientific community defines it right now.

We intend to transform this energy source in various ways to make our world a better place for as many people as possible. We start by converting radiation from the sun into electrical energy. This electrical energy can then be transformed further to do all kinds of tasks for us. From helping us grow our food, to keeping our water fresh and clean, to powering our communication and transporting systems.

To use the suns ratiation, we make use of the photovoltaic effect. Specially designd materials create a potential difference in them while they are exposed to light. This effects physical principles are further described by clicking on the scematic below. ELBIONIC currently looks for use cases where to implement this effect and how to optimize its various applications with regard to the underlying natural phenomena called photosynthesis. This natural phenomena occours e.g. in leafs and builds there sugars with the help of sunlight.

If you look at leaves, they are highly flexible. They also degrade naturally and while doing so release nutrients back into the soil. We strive to incorporate these basic ideas into our flexible photovoltaic sun blind as good as possible. To do that we look closely at the newly emerging technologies regarding cell manufactoring. This involves especially organic solar cells.