Bio inspired design

Fish, F.F. (2014). Evolution and bio-inspired design Natural limitation. In A.K. Goel, D.A. McAdams, and R.B. Stone (Eds.), Biologically Inspired Design, London, England Springer-Verlag. 

Bioengineering Biognosis Bio-inspired design Biomimesis Biomimicry Bionics Biophysics Biotechnology... 

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The book b ins with a chapter that describes certain functions of the skin which contributes to the new area of bio-inspired design. The next four chapter have more specific subjects with its technological applications. Chapter 2 analyzes the shark skin effect or the commonly known antifriction surfaces. Chapter 3 discusses the Lotus effect or the usually known self-cleaning surfaces. Chapter 4 analyzes the Moth-eye effect or the commonly known antireflection surfaces and Chap. 5 describes the Gecko effect or the usually known dry adhesive surfaces. 

As described above, protein domains that provide discrete biological cues (e.g., cell binding) or mechanical properties (e.g., expansion or contraction with temperature changes) can be borrowed from nature and designed into synthetic polypeptides or joined with other polymers to provide bio-inspired function in new... 

Yang, X.S. Firefly algorithm, stochastic test functions and design optimisation. Int. J. Bio-Inspired Comput. 2(2), 78-84 (2010a)... 

Arciszewski, T. and Cornell, J. (2006). Bio-inspiration Learning creative design principia. In I. Smith (Ed.), Intelligent Computing in Engineering and Architecture, pp. 32-53, Berlin, Germany Springer. 

Kicinger, R. and Arciszewski, T. (2009). Bio-inspired computational framework for enhancing creativity, optimality and robustness in design. Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, 23(1), 22-23. 

Novel concepts and techniques such as bio-inspired pol5mer design, synthetically-inspired material development are now considered... 

The combination of bio-inspired structure elements and classical polymer chemistry provides promising opportunities to design polymeric materials with unique solution and solid state properties. Examples are rod-coil type polymers comprising hehcal polypeptide and flexible vinyl polymer blocks. Block copolymers of this architecture are of interest from both functional and structural points of view. Compared to simple coil-coil block copoljmers the self-assembling of the rod-coil block copolymers is not only controlled by the microphase separation, but also by the tendency to form anisotropic supramole-cular assemblies. These competitive processes can lead to morphologies which are different from those commonly observed for block copolymers.f ... 

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