Biomimetics: using nature as an inspiring model for human innovation
By Y. Bar-Cohen. 2005
392 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Subfields: Control and Systems Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/cb40afa36b66099f0e1e75f10d980b737d5a3f07
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- Natural and biomimetic artificial surfaces for superhydrophobicity, self-cleaning, low adhesion, and drag reduction (2011, background): “The spider generates silk fiber and has a sufficient supply of raw material for its silk to span great distances [97,8].”
- Recent Progress in Super Hydrophobic/Hydrophilic Self-Cleaning Surfaces for Various Industrial Applications: A Review (2018, background): ““Biomimetic”, derived from the Greek word “bios” (life, nature) and “mimesis” (impersonation, duplicate)([28]) literally means copying nature for designing of new surfaces or improving”
- Beautiful and Functional: A Review of Biomimetic Design in Additive Manufacturing (2019, background): “True biomimicry 1 True biomimicry of natural form (as opposed to biomimicry of processes or ecosystems), involves the 2 purposeful emulation of structure-function relationships in biological entities to solve engineering 3 challenges, or to apply these to advanced engineering systems [3,52,53].”
- Shape morphing solar shadings: A review (2016, background): “Typology Mechanism Motor Reference Non-autonomous structures Pollination External agent [82] Autonomous structures Osmotic Hydrostatic pressure [86] Colloidal Micro-hygroscope particles [86]”
- Underwater Optical Wireless Communication (2016, background): “Various non-acoustic sensors such as optical sensor, electro-mechanical sensor [230], bio-inspired sensors [231] and MEMs based sensors [232] have also been developed for underwater applications.”
- Inspiration from the natural world: from bio-adhesives to bio-inspired adhesives (2014, background): “The evolution of biological organisms over millions of years has allowed for refined development of these bioadhesives, which play a crucial role in the organism’s survival [2].”
- Liquid crystal lenses with tunable focal length (2017, background): “image resolution varies across the image) for threat detection, artificial brittlestar eyes for light collection, and artificial lobster eyes for X-ray telescopes [1,2].”
- Biomimetics: lessons from nature–an overview (2009, background): “2005), (e) scale structure of shark reducing drag (Reif 1985), ( f ) wings of a bird in landing approach, (g) spiderweb made of silk material (Bar-Cohen 2006), and (h) antireflective moth’s eye (Genzer & Efimenko 2006).”