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Opto-Electronic Advances, 2022 This paper presents the development of a bioinspired multifunctional flexible optical sensor (BioMFOS) as an ultrasensit-ive tool for force (intensity and location) and orientation sensing.
A. Leal-Junior +5 more
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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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Control in technological systems and physical intelligence: an emerging theory [PDF]
, 2011 The transduction and processing of physical information is becoming important in a range of research fields, from the design of materials and virtual environments to the dynamics of cellular microenvironments.
Bradly Alicea
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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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Bio-inspired swing leg control for spring-mass robots running on ground with unexpected height disturbance [PDF]
, 2013 We proposed three swing leg control policies for spring-mass running robots, inspired by experimental data from our recent collaborative work on ground running birds.
Blum, Y +3 more
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Lift-off dynamics in a simple jumping robot [PDF]
, 2012 We study vertical jumping in a simple robot comprising an actuated mass-spring arrangement. The actuator frequency and phase are systematically varied to find optimal performance.
Alex Lesov +17 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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