Nature has developed high‐performance materials and structures over millions of years of
evolution and provides valuable sources of inspiration for the design of next‐generation …

Metamaterials are artificial materials designed to exhibit effective material parameters that
go beyond those found in nature. Composed of unit cells with rich designability that are …

A broad diversity of biological organisms and systems interact with soil in ways that facilitate
their growth and survival. These interactions are made possible by strategies that enable …

The combination of scientific advances in additive manufacturing (AM) and smart materials
(SMs) has enabled the development of a new interdisciplinary research area: 4D printing …

Nature-inspired material design is driven by superior properties found in natural architected
materials and enabled by recent developments in additive manufacturing and machine …

Ideation is a source of innovation and creativity, and is commonly used in early stages of
engineering design processes. This paper proposes an integrated approach for enhancing …

Abstract Design-by-analogy (DbA) is a design methodology wherein new solutions,
opportunities, or designs are generated in a target domain based on inspiration drawn from …

Highlights•1300+ crowd workers provided written design solutions to problems from the
literature.•Crowd responses were text-mined to extract near vs. far inspirational stimuli.•The …

The biomimetic approach rapidly evolves for designing novel lightweight structures and has
been expanding in engineering design. Additive manufacturing or 3D printing permits three …

Biomimetics, as the transfer of strategies from biology to technology, is an emerging
research area and has led to significant concepts over the past decades. The development …