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Biomimetics and Education in Europe: Challenges, Opportunities, and Variety
Biomimetics, 2021 Biomimetics is an interdisciplinary field of science that deals with the analysis and systematic transfer of biological insights into technical applications.
Olga Speck, Thomas Speck
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Hierarchically structured bioinspired nanocomposites
Nature Materials, 2022 Next-generation structural materials are expected to be lightweight, high-strength and tough composites with embedded functionalities to sense, adapt, self-repair, morph and restore. This Review highlights recent developments and concepts in bioinspired nanocomposites, emphasizing tailoring of the architecture, interphases and confinement to achieve ...
Dhriti Nepal +20 more
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Fast aquatic escape with a jet thruster [PDF]
, 2016 The ability to collect water samples rapidly with aerial–aquatic robots would increase the safety and efficiency of water health monitoring and allow water sample collection from dangerous or inaccessible areas.
Kovac, M, Siddall, R
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Designer Supersurafaces via Bioinspiration and Biomimetics for Dental materials and Structures [PDF]
, 2015 The design of surfaces and interfaces gives rise to superior qualities and properties to materials and structures. The interface between biology and materials in nature is being closely examined at the smallest scales for a number of significant reasons.
Green, DW, Jung, HS
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Biomimetic directional transport for sustainable liquid usage
Biosurface and Biotribology, 2022 Through hundreds of millions of evolution, animals and plants have possessed their unique structures to adapt to natural variations. As a familiar process, liquid transportation plays an important part in both production and life, and researchers focus ...
Jie Ma, Zhichao Dong
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Challenges for the Implantation of Symbiotic Nanostructured Medical Devices
Applied Sciences, 2020 We discuss the perspectives of designing implantable medical devices that have the criterion of being symbiotic. Our starting point was whether the implanted device is intended to have any two-way (“duplex”) communication of energy or materials with the ...
Jean-Pierre Alcaraz +7 more
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Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022 High-tech sensors, energy harvesters, and robots are increasingly being developed for operation on plant leaves. This introduces an extra load which the leaf must withstand, often under further dynamic forces like wind.
Fabian Meder +2 more
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Cellular Helmet Liner Design through Bio-inspired Structures and Topology Optimization of Compliant Mechanism Lattices [PDF]
, 2018 The continuous development of sport technologies constantly demands advancements in protective headgear to reduce the risk of head injuries. This article introduces new cellular helmet liner designs through two approaches. The first approach is the study
DeHart, Jacob +3 more
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Winnerless competition in coupled Lotka-Volterra maps [PDF]
, 2013 Winnerless competition is analyzed in coupled maps with discrete temporal evolution of the Lotka-Volterra type of arbitrary dimension. Necessary and sufficient conditions for the appearance of structurally stable heteroclinic cycles as a function of the ...
Cabrera, Juan Luis +3 more
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Tuning protecto‐flexibility in nature: Case of the fish scale
Natural Sciences, 2022 Fish scales are among the structural materials in nature that are inspiring the design and development of “next‐generation” engineering materials. Fish scales possess a mineralization gradient that divides their thickness into three unique regions, each ...
Sandra Murcia +3 more
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