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Biodiversifying bioinspiration
Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, 2018Bioinspiration-using insights into the function of biological systems for the development of new engineering concepts-is already a successful and rapidly growing field. However, only a small portion of the world's biodiversity has thus far been considered as a potential source for engineering inspiration.
Rolf Müller +10 more
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Bioinspired Crystallization of Guanine
The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2021Biological guanine crystals in organisms exhibit excellent optical properties and functions, including broad-band and narrow-band reflectors, band-tunable reflectors, mirrors, and stimuli-responsive structural colors, attributed to the high refractive index of guanine (1.85) and the exquisite control of the polymorphs, morphologies, sizes, exposed ...
Fenghua Chen +3 more
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Bioinspired Underwater Adhesives
Advanced Materials, 2021AbstractUnderwater adhesives are in high demand in both commercial and industrial sectors. Compared with adhesives used in dry (air) environments, adhesives used for wet or submerged surfaces in aqueous environments have specific challenges in development and performance.
Hailong Fan, Jian Ping Gong
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Bioinspired Visuomotor Convergence
IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2010In this paper, wide-field integration methods, which are inspired by the spatial decompositions of wide-field patterns of optic flow in the insect visuomotor system, are explored as an efficient means to extract visual cues for guidance and navigation.
James Sean Humbert +1 more
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Bioinspired structural materials
Nature Materials, 2014Natural structural materials are built at ambient temperature from a fairly limited selection of components. They usually comprise hard and soft phases arranged in complex hierarchical architectures, with characteristic dimensions spanning from the nanoscale to the macroscale.
Ulrike G K, Wegst +4 more
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Bioinspired dynamic microcapsules
Soft Matter, 2018DynaMicCaps undergo drastic volume changes when exposed to a biochemical ligand, trifluoperazine (TFP), at near physiological pH.
N. F. D. AlDala'een +4 more
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Bioinspired Materials for Energy Storage
Small Methods, 2021AbstractNature offers a variety of interesting structures and intriguing functions for researchers to be learnt for advanced materials innovations. Recently, bioinspired materials have received intensive attention in energy storage applications. Inspired by various natural species, many new configurations and components of energy storage devices, such ...
Jun Mei, Ting Liao, Hong Peng, Ziqi Sun
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Bioinspired Capillary Transistors
Advanced MaterialsAbstractInspired by the unidirectional liquid spreading on Nepenthes peristome, Araucaria leaf, butterfly wings, etc., various microfluidic devices have been developed for water collection, irrigation, physical/chemical reaction, and oil–water separation.
Xiaojiang Liu +6 more
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Bioinspired Macromolecular Actuators
Materials Science Forum, 2004Some of the latest findings and research avenues in the realisation of bioinspired macromolecular actuators are highlighted in this paper. In particular, available technologies suitable for micro-scale devices (conducting polymers and carbon nanotubes) and macro-scale devices (dielectric elastomers) are separately analysed, with particular emphasis to ...
De Rossi, D. +2 more
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