MIT study on eumelanin the darker type of Melanin found among humans:
http://news.mit.edu/2014/why-eumelanin-such-good-absorber-light-0522
"Although eumelanin has been known for decades, pinning down its molecular structure, and identifying the reasons for its broadband light absorption, have been daunting tasks. This is, in part, because of the very characteristics that make it so interesting: Typically, the constituents of a chemical compound can be determined through spectroscopy, among other tools, but in the case of eumelanin the spectrographs don’t show the sharp peaks that are ordinarily useful in identification. So indirect means of analysis were needed."
https://www.fastcompany.com/90330635/mits-radical-plan-to-make-buildings-out-of-melanin
"Melanin is the universal pigment that colors our skin and hair, peacock feathers, and butterfly wings. But for Neri Oxman, the head of MIT’s Mediated Matter research group, melanin isn’t just “the color of life,” as she puts it. It’s the foundation of our future–and our future habitats."
Finally Dr Arturo Solis Herrera"
"The unsuspected intrinsic property of melanin to transform visible and invisible light into chemical energy, dissociating the water molecule, as chlorophyll in plants, opens a new era in clean energies. Melanin is the most stable substance man ever known, 170 million years corroborated."
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/melanin-energy-future-arturo-solis-herrera/
http://news.mit.edu/2014/why-eumelanin-such-good-absorber-light-0522
"Although eumelanin has been known for decades, pinning down its molecular structure, and identifying the reasons for its broadband light absorption, have been daunting tasks. This is, in part, because of the very characteristics that make it so interesting: Typically, the constituents of a chemical compound can be determined through spectroscopy, among other tools, but in the case of eumelanin the spectrographs don’t show the sharp peaks that are ordinarily useful in identification. So indirect means of analysis were needed."
https://www.fastcompany.com/90330635/mits-radical-plan-to-make-buildings-out-of-melanin
"Melanin is the universal pigment that colors our skin and hair, peacock feathers, and butterfly wings. But for Neri Oxman, the head of MIT’s Mediated Matter research group, melanin isn’t just “the color of life,” as she puts it. It’s the foundation of our future–and our future habitats."
Finally Dr Arturo Solis Herrera"
"The unsuspected intrinsic property of melanin to transform visible and invisible light into chemical energy, dissociating the water molecule, as chlorophyll in plants, opens a new era in clean energies. Melanin is the most stable substance man ever known, 170 million years corroborated."
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/melanin-energy-future-arturo-solis-herrera/
