A large portable canopy designed to track the movement of the sun and maximize the capture of solar energy is being developed through a collaboration of ASU and Cornell University researchers. Development of the canopy, called HelioSkin, emerged from a research partnership of Mariana Bertoni,  a professor in the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, part of the Fulton Schools, and leader of ASU’s Defect Engineering for Energy Conversion Technologies lab, and Jenny Sabin, an architectural designer at Cornell University. They began by combining computational design, digital fabrication and 3D printing to create photovoltaic panel assemblies that boost sunlight absorption to generate energy.