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Biomimetic Receptors and Sensors [PDF]

Sensors, 2014
In biomimetics, living systems are imitated to develop receptors for ions, molecules and bioparticles. The most pertinent idea is self-organization in analogy to evolution in nature, which created the key-lock principle. Today, modern science has been developing host-guest chemistry, a strategy of supramolecular chemistry for designing interactions of ...
openaire   +3 more sources

Application of Biomimetics to Architectural and Urban Design: A Review across Scales

Sustainability, 2020
Application of biomimetics has expanded progressively to other fields in recent years, including urban and architectural design, scaling up from materials to a larger scale. Besides its contribution to design and functionality through a long evolutionary
Y. Uchiyama, Eduardo Blanco, R. Kohsaka
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Nanoengineered Binetworks in Multifunctional Anionic Block Polymer Mesoblends for Improved Mechanical Properties

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Mesoblends consist of a nanostructured polymer into which a second polymer is imbibed with a selective solvent. In this work, a solvent‐templatable pentablock terpolymer possessing a sulfonated midblock is modified with a hydrophilic polymer that is photocrosslinked in situ, yielding a hierarchical binetwork.
Kacie M. Wells, Ivan Kuzmenko, Reza A. Ghiladi, Richard J. Spontak   +3 more
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Construction of Eukaryotic Cell Biomimetics: Hierarchical Polymersomes-in-Proteinosome Multicompartment with Enzymatic Reactions Modulated Protein Transportation.

Small, 2020
The eukaryotic cell is a smart compartment containing an outer permeable membrane, a cytoskeleton, and functional organelles, presenting part structures for life.
Ping Wen, Xueyi Wang, Silvia Moreno, S. Boye, D. Voigt, B. Voit, Xin Huang, D. Appelhans   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Bioinspired Mechanically Robust Organic–Inorganic Hybridized Bio‐Adhesives With up to 50% Inorganic Components by Bi‐Continuous Phase Engineering

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A robust plant protein adhesive was prepared by fabricating a bi‐continuous organic–inorganic hybrid structure. Compared with traditional organic–inorganic hybrid adhesives, the addition amount of inorganic phase is increased from 0.2%–3.0% to 50%, and the strength and toughness are increased by 6 and 121 times, respectively.
Zheng Liu, Wenlong Luo, Xu Yang, Xin Zhang, Yuru Zhu, Jingchao Li, Jianzhang Li, Jing Luo, Zhezhe Zhou, Pingan Song, Qiang Gao   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Trends in National R&D Projects on Biomimetics in South Korea

Biomimetics
Imitating nature’s mechanisms has enormous potential to improve our lives and tools. Biomimetics emulates nature’s proven patterns and strategies to develop novel solutions widely applied in various fields.
Hyein Na, Eunhee Kim
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Theoretical Biomimetics: A biological design-driven concept for creative problem-solving as applied to the optimal sequencing of active learning techniques in educational theory

Multidisciplinary Journal for Education, Social and Technological Sciences, 2017
The article introduces the author’s concept of applying principles of biological design to drive creative problem-solving.  It provides a brief background of the field of Biomimetics, which serves as a context for the reader to appreciate how it began ...
La Shun L. Carroll
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Has Biomimicry in Architecture Arrived in France? Diversity of Challenges and Opportunities for a Paradigm Shift

Biomimetics, 2022
Biomimicry is a growing field of developing environmental innovations for materials, facade systems, buildings, and urban planning. In France, we observe an extensive diversity of initiatives in biomimicry for the development of regenerative cities ...
Estelle Cruz, Eduardo Blanco, Fabienne Aujard, Kalina Raskin   +3 more
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Electrocapillary Modulated Interfacial Tension Amplifies Liquid Metal Transduction

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This study presented an electrocapillary‐enhanced magnetohydrodynamic pumping strategy that harnesses the Lorentz force and interfacial tension modulation of liquid metal droplets to achieve amplified fluidic power. The system enabled low‐voltage, self‐oscillating fluidic transduction with enhanced pressure and flow generation, supporting compact ...
Saba Firouznia, Ciqun Xu, Michael D. Dickey, Jonathan Rossiter   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Advances in Sustainable and Wearable Textile Based Soft Robotics

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This Review examines advances in wearable textile‐based soft robotics, focusing on sustainable materials, integrated sensing, and scalable actuation. It discusses manufacturing and system integration across healthcare, assistive robotics, prosthetics, and human–machine interfaces, and highlights key challenges in circular design, including life‐cycle ...
Zahir Abbas, Marzia Dulal, Sophia K. Novoselov, Victoria K. Novoselov, Kostya S. Novoselov, Shaila Afroj, Nazmul Karim   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source