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Biomimetics contributes to innovative engineering by imitating the models, systems, and elements of nature. For biomimetics research, it is important to develop biomimetics database including widely varied knowledge across different domains such as biology and engineering. Interoperability of knowledge among those domains is necessary to create such a database. For this purpose, the authors are...

1 FROM THE EDITOR Yoseph Bar-Cohen, [email protected] This issue reports the latest progress in the fields of Electroactive Polymers (EAP) and biomimetics. Some of the latest development at the various lab worldwide is reported in this issue. From the perspective of Biomimetics, it is interesting to note that the SPIE’s Conference on Biomimetics has continued to grow in terms of the number of p...

The search for affordable, green biocatalytic processes is a challenge for chemicals manufacture. Redox biotransformations are potentially attractive, but they rely on unstable and expensive nicotinamide coenzymes that have prevented their widespread exploitation. Stoichiometric use of natural coenzymes is not viable economically, and the instability of these molecules hinders catalytic process...

Biomimetics is the study of nature and natural phenomena to understand the principles of underlying mechanisms, to obtain ideas from nature, and to apply concepts that may benefit science, engineering, and medicine. Examples of biomimetic studies include fluid-drag reduction swimsuits inspired by the structure of shark's skin, velcro fasteners modeled on burrs, shape of airplanes developed from...

Evolution has resolved many of nature's challenges leading to lasting solutions. Nature has always inspired human achievements and has led to effective materials, structures, tools, mechanisms, processes, algorithms, methods, systems, and many other benefits (Bar-Cohen Y (ed) 2005 Biomimetics-Biologically Inspired Technologies (Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press) pp 1-552). This field, which is known as...

Biomimetics – or bionik as it is called in parts of Europe – offer a number of promising opportunities and challenges for the designer. The paper investigates how biomimetics as a design methodology is used in engineering design by looking at examples of biological searches and highlight the possibilities and challenges. Biomimetics for engineering design is explored through an experiment invol...