Aerodynamic ground effect in fruitfly sized insect takeoff [PDF]
, 2016 Aerodynamic ground effect in flapping-wing insect flight is of importance to comparative morphologies and of interest to the micro-air-vehicle (MAV) community.
ENGELS, Thomas +6 more
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Bioinspired NEMS—Prospective of Collaboration with Nature
Applied Sciences, 2022 The fields of micro- and nanomechanics are strongly interconnected with the development of micro-electro-mechanical (MEMS) and nano-electro-mechanical (NEMS) devices, their fabrication and applications.
Marina Simovic-Pavlovic +3 more
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Unraveling the Salvinia paradox: design principles for submerged superhydrophobicity [PDF]
, 2015 The complex structure of the Salvinia molesta is investigated via rare event molecular dynamics simulations. Results show that a hydrophilic/hydrophobic patterning together with a re-entrant geometry control the free energy barriers for bubble nucleation
Amabili, Matteo +3 more
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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
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The Unique Flight Strategies Adopted by Butterflies When Landing on Vertical Surfaces
ProceedingsLanding on vertical surfaces poses a greater challenge for insects compared to horizontal ones, yet it remarkably expands their spatial range [...]
Huan Shen, Aihong Ji
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Identifying Vessel Branching from Fluid Stresses on Microscopic Robots
, 2020 Objects moving in fluids experience patterns of stress on their surfaces determined by the geometry of nearby boundaries. Flows at low Reynolds number, as occur in microscopic vessels such as capillaries in biological tissues, have relatively simple ...
Allen +48 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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AI–Guided 4D Printing of Carnivorous Plants–Inspired Microneedles for Accelerated Wound Healing
Advanced Materials, EarlyView.This work presents an artificial intelligence (AI)‐guided 4D‐printed microneedle platform inspired by carnivorous plants for wound healing. A thermo‐responsive shape memory polymer enables body temperature–triggered self‐coiling for autonomous wound closure.
Hyun Lee +21 more
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On the Aerodynamic Analysis and Conceptual Design of Bioinspired Multi-Flapping-Wing Drones
Drones, 2021 Many research studies have investigated the characteristics of bird flights as a source of bioinspiration for the design of flapping-wing micro air vehicles. However, to the best of the authors’ knowledge, no drone design targeted the exploitation of the
Ethan Billingsley +3 more
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Exploring the Abilities of 3D Printing and its Viability for Consumption in the Fashion Industry [PDF]
, 2017 With the ever-evolving state of today’s technology, designers and retailers in the apparel industry are seeking out new technological methods that have the capacity to revolutionize and individualize their brand, as well as meet consumer needs and ...
Corral, Laura C, Walker, Kaitlyn J
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