Bioreplicated coatings for photovoltaic solar panels nearly eliminate light pollution that harms polarotactic insects

• Benjamin Fritz ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Benjamin Fritz, Gábor Horváth

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Light Technology Institute (LTI), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6905-2309

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• Gábor Horváth ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Benjamin Fritz, Gábor Horváth

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: gh@arago.elte.hu

  Affiliation Environmental Optics Laboratory, Department of Biological Physics, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9008-2411

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• Ruben Hünig,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research Baden-Württemberg (ZSW), Stuttgart, Germany

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• Ádám Pereszlényi,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization

  Affiliation Environmental Optics Laboratory, Department of Biological Physics, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary

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• Ádám Egri,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliations MTA Centre for Ecological Research, Danube Research Institute, Budapest, Hungary, MTA Centre for Ecological Research, Evolutionary Systems Research Group, Tihany, Hungary

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• Markus Guttmann,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation

  Affiliation Institute of Microstructure Technology (IMT), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany

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• Marc Schneider,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Institute of Microstructure Technology (IMT), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany

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• Uli Lemmer,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Light Technology Institute (LTI), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany, Institute of Microstructure Technology (IMT), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany

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• György Kriska,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations MTA Centre for Ecological Research, Danube Research Institute, Budapest, Hungary, Group for Methodology in Biology Teaching, Biological Institute, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary

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• Guillaume Gomard

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Light Technology Institute (LTI), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany, Institute of Microstructure Technology (IMT), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany

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