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A System-of-Systems Bio-Inspired Design Process: Conceptual Design and Physical Prototype of a Reconfigurable Robot Capable of Multi-Modal Locomotion. [PDF]

Front Neurorobot, 2019
Tan N, Sun Z, Mohan RE, Brahmananthan N, Venkataraman S, Sosa R, Wood K.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Structure Formation in Butterfly Scales: Interplay of Genetic Control, Mechanical Instabilities, and Dynamic Material Properties

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Butterfly wing scales are intricate cuticular functional nanosctructures. This perspective suggests that spatially varying material properties, cytoskeletal constraints, and growth‐driven mechanical instabilities shape the resulting nanoscale architectures created from single cells.
Anupama Prakash, Victoria Lloyd, Yi Yang, Anna‐Lee Jessop, Anthony McDougal, Primož Pirih, Guillaume Duclos, Andrew Parnell, Mathias Kolle, Nicola J. Nadeau, Bodo D. Wilts   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Novel Proposal for a Bladeless Wind Turbine: Bio-Inspired Design of a Columnar-Cactus Type Mast. [PDF]

Biomimetics (Basel)
Hernández-Arriaga I, Pérez-Meneses J, Mejía-Hernández GE, López-Barroso J, Flores-Hernández CG, Hernández-Arriaga D.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Autonomous self-healing structural composites with bio-inspired design. [PDF]

Sci Rep, 2016
D'Elia E, Eslava S, Miranda M, Georgiou TK, Saiz E.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Robust Polymer Hydrogels Improve Electric‐Fish‐Inspired Batteries

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Electric‐fish‐inspired hydrogel batteries based on ion‐concentration gradients offer an attractive route to soft power sources; however, the poor mechanical properties of existing hydrogels limit device assembly and performance. Here, we report poly(ethylene glycol) methyl ether acrylate hydrogels that enable ion‐gradient batteries composed of
Nick Zahnd, Satyajit Das, John Marc C. Puguan, Carolina Pierucci, Michael Mayer, Christoph Weder   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bio-Inspired Design of Mechanical Properties of Hybrid Topological Cellular Honeycomb Structures. [PDF]

Biomimetics (Basel)
Sun Y, Guo F, Liu Y.
europepmc   +1 more source

Bio-inspired design: bulk iron-nickel sulfide allows for efficient solvent-dependent CO₂ reduction. [PDF]

Chem Sci, 2019
Piontek S, Junge Puring K, Siegmund D, Smialkowski M, Sinev I, Tetzlaff D, Roldan Cuenya B, Apfel UP.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Multi‐Scale Interface Engineering of MXenes for Multifunctional Sensory Systems

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
MXenes, as two‐dimensional transition metal carbides and nitrides, demonstrate remarkable capabilities for multifunctional sensing applications. This review systematically examines multi‐scale interface engineering approaches that enhance sensing performance, enable diverse detection functionalities, and improve system‐level compatibility in MXene ...
Jiaying Liao, Sin‐Yi Pang, Jianhua Hao
wiley   +1 more source

A Novel Triad of Bio-Inspired Design, Digital Fabrication, and Bio-Derived Materials for Personalised Bone Repair. [PDF]

Materials (Basel)
Dei Rossi G, Vergani LM, Buccino F.
europepmc   +1 more source

Metachromatic Butterfly Bile Pigments for Multi‐Level Optical Security Films

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Bio‐derived optical security materials are manufactured by embedding butterfly‐based pigments in polymer films. Tunable color and fluorescence responses arise from concentration‐controlled metachromasy, enabling spatially encoded patterns with distinct visible, UV‐active, and spectral signatures.
Limin Wang, Bodo D. Wilts
wiley   +1 more source