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A Biomorphic Approach to Designing Special-Purpose Vehicles for Arctic Conditions

Biomimetics, 2023
The paper explores the potential of the biomorphic approach to context-based design with a focus on special-purpose mobility in the Arctic. The study seeks to contribute to the analytical and conceptual basis for developing the transport component of the
Nikita Klyusov, Nikolai Garin, Svetlana Usenyuk-Kravchuk, Ekaterina Vasilieva, Kirill Ustinov   +4 more
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Bioinspired building materials—lessons from nature

Frontiers in Materials, 2023
Systems found in nature are a valuable source of inspiration for several applications. Scientists and researchers from different fields (structural engineering, robotics, medicine, and materials science) use the concepts of biomimicking, biomimetics, and
Anna Sandak, Anna Sandak, Anna Sandak, Karen Butina Ogorelec, Karen Butina Ogorelec   +4 more
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Marine Spongin: Naturally Prefabricated 3D Scaffold-Based Biomaterial

Marine Drugs, 2018
The biosynthesis, chemistry, structural features and functionality of spongin as a halogenated scleroprotein of keratosan demosponges are still paradigms. This review has the principal goal of providing thorough and comprehensive coverage of spongin as a
Teofil Jesionowski, Małgorzata Norman, Sonia Żółtowska-Aksamitowska, Iaroslav Petrenko, Yvonne Joseph, Hermann Ehrlich   +5 more
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3D Skeletal Scaffolds of Marine Keratosan Demosponges Origin as Renewable Sources for Bioinspiration in Modern Structural Biomimetics and Tissue Engineering

Biomimetics
This experimental review discusses evolutionarily approved, naturally pre-designed skeletal architectures of marine keratosan sponges in the form of 3D scaffolds, which have garnered increasing interest in the fields of structural and functional ...
Hermann Ehrlich, Jagoda Litowczenko, Anna Szczurek, Alona Voronkina, Daria Pakuła, Miłosz Frydrych, Robert E. Przekop, Igor Smirnov, Stanislav Petrov, Ihor Sieliverstov, Martyna Kotula, Anita Kubiak, Bartosz Leśniewski, Izabela Dziedzic, Liubov Muzychka, Hartmut Stöker, Zineb Souiba, Armin Springer, Korbinian Heimler, Carla Vogt, Adelajda Flont, Marta Przymuszała, Dmitry Tsurkan, Krzysztof Nowacki   +23 more
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Fabrication Routes for Ionic Conducting Fiber Strain Sensors

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
Ionic conducting fiber strain sensors (ICFSs) offer compliant, textile‐integrable sensing. Thus far, the commercialization of ICFSs has been constrained by fiber fabrication routes. This review provides a fabrication‐centric analysis of ICFSs correlating processing strategies with material properties and scalability.
Leo John Kershaw, Zhanhong Yang, Anne Ladegaard Skov, Magdalena Skowyra   +3 more
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The Plant Gall as Innovation Booster: A Conceptual Framework

Proceedings
Biomimetics, the field of learning from Nature for applications in science, engineering and the arts, offers pathways toward sustainable innovation and integrative education.
Ille C. Gebeshuber
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Chitin‐Derived Carbon‐Metal Functional Materials

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Functional carbon materials are synthesized from combination of biopolymer (chitin) and iron precursors. The resultant material exhibits superior surface area and adsorptive properties compared to carbon materials synthesized directly from pure chitin.
Herry Fang, Chao Hsuan (Joseph) Sung, Haitao Yu, Ezra Sarmiento, Katarina Kotanchek, Ryan Christopher Lee, Michelle Chan, David Kisailus   +7 more
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Desert Plant Inspired Hierarchical Nanofibrous Membranes for Integrated Solar Desalination and Heavy Metal Remediation

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
An Alhagi maurorum inspired hierarchical composite membrane (NFCu) was developed by integrating heavy metal remediation and solar‐driven interfacial evaporation in a single platform. Beyond the photothermal effect, a localized photocatalytic process is realized on the CuO surface, deepening the mechanistic understanding of light–matter–water ...
Yuqiong He, Ronggang Luo, Shengbo Ge, Kaixin Jiang, Kirsten Dyer, Xiaojian Zhou, Ben Bin Xu, Xuehua Zhang, Guanben Du, Kaimeng Xu   +9 more
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Photoinduced Charge Separation in Single‐Component Squaraine Films: The Key Role of Electrostatic Disorder

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Neat films of organic dyes are an interesting technological platform for solar cells and photodetectors. Recently, the conventional biphasic bulk‐heterojunction paradigm for photoinduced charge separation was challenged by the observation that charge carriers can be photogenerated in single‐component materials. A comprehensive experimental and
Davide Giavazzi, João Pedro Ferreira Assunção, Michael Bauer, Matthias Diethelm, Wei‐Hsu Hu, Mohammad Jafarpour, Roland Widmer, Antonia Neels, Dimitrios Sapalidis, Bruno F. B. Silva, Roland Hany, Frank Nüesch, Anna Painelli   +12 more
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Mechanics of Telson Ridges in Mantis Shrimp for Impact Analysis and Implications for Bioinspired Elastic Shell Designs

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
The mantis shrimp telson reveals how ridged biological shields control deformation under impact. Inspired by this architecture, telson‐inspired ridged curved shells transform ridge geometry and macroscopic curvature into bidirectional snap‐through, tunable stiffness, and enhanced hysteretic energy dissipation for multifunctional architected materials ...
Phani Saketh Dasika, Adwait Trikanad, Wei Huang, Taige Hao, David Kisailus, Pablo D. Zavattieri   +5 more
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