Nature provides an endless source of inspiration for advanced materials, fuelled by
evolutionary innovations over many millions of years. Capitalizing on this wealth of …

Nature provides a rich source of information for the design of novel materials; yet there
remain significant challenges in the design and manufacture of materials that replicate the …

Biodiversity provides a massive library of ideas for bio-inspired design, but the sheer
number of species to consider can be daunting. Current approaches for sifting through …

Nature has always inspired innovative minds for development of new designs. Animals and
plants provide various structures with lower density, more strength and high energy sorption …

Being one of the most fundamental and crucial capacity of robots and animals, autonomous
navigation that consists of goal approaching and collision avoidance enables completion of …

The present research proposes novel swept-curved bioinspired blades for Darrieus wind
turbine. The design was influenced by the curved flippers of the bottle-nose dolphin. The …

(1) Generating a range of biological analogies is a key part of the bio-inspired design
process. In this research, we drew on the creativity literature to test methods for increasing …

In bio-inspired design, the concept of'function'allows engineers and designers to move
between biological models and human applications. Abstracting a problem to general …

Recent developments in soft actuation demand for resilient, responsive materials with locally
varying compositions that are sufficiently stiff to exhibit significant actuation forces …

Plants and animals are often used as a source for inspiration in biomimetic engineering.
However, stronger engagement of biologists is often required in the field of biomimetics. The …