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Giant clam shell open, revealing iridocytes

Giant clams convert sunlight into chemical energy with near-perfect efficiency. [A. L. Holt et al., PRX Energy 3, 023014 (2024), CC-BY 4.0]

The mollusks’ light-conversion techniques could be applied to energy extraction from biomass.

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