Bioinspired approach

In this chapter, we will introduce a bioinspired approach to biomineralization. First, a fundamental concept of the bioinspired approach is compared with the biomimetic approach. Here is a question, What is a bioinspired approach If we want to fly in the sky, when we look at flying birds what do we have to do Two kinds of typical answer were considered, as shown in Figure 6.4. One is Bird-Man, in the Edo period (AD 1600) in Japan, a man named Kokichi attempted to fly. He wore wide, large wings on both his arms, and fluttered his arms vigorously, but in vain. This is a typical biomimetic approach. He only mimicked the style of a flying bird, so his innovative idea ended in failure. 

Fig. 6.4 Schematic illustration of a fundamental concept of a bioinspired approach relative to a biomimetic approach.

Guyomard A, De E, Jouenne T et al. (2008) Incorporation of a hydrophobic antibacterial peptide into amphiphilic polyelectrolyte multilayers a bioinspired approach to prepare biocidal thin coatings. Adv Funct Mater 18 758-765... 

Following Turner s presentation, some workshop participants provided their own thoughts and asked questions of the speaker. Daniel Nocera followed up on Turner s comments about energy scale. Nocera said that if a new material or new bioinspired approach can be done cheaply, there will not be the growth rate penalty for PV (above a 35 percent... 

Structural integrity for subsequent tissue formation. Strategies suitable to meet the particular needs of different applications may closely mimic normal VEGF signaling, or be bioinspired approaches that go beyond what normally occiu s in the body. Strategies using both concepts may prove particularly beneficial... 

One of the processing methods to emulate such features is the biomimetic or bioinspired approach. This nascent field has recently entered bone engineering in the design and assembly of bone graft materials, mimicking biological mechanisms. The term biomimetic can be defined as a microstructural processing... 

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