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BIOINSPIRED SELF-REPAIRING surfaces. Self-repairing materials are becoming a fascinating area, ranging from cements, to medical applications, and in part grew out of a fascination with biological self-assembly, common in many systems. " "" "Nature 477, 443–447 (22 September 2011) doi:10.1038/nature10447 View in LinkedIn

DRAGONFLIES INSPIRE FLYING NANOBOTS. " "" "Bio-Inspired Aerodynamic Designs for Nano-Scale Vehicles http://lnkd.in/f2QXed. View in LinkedIn

NANOSTRUCTURE ENGINEERING can result in new materials with enhanced properties, with multiple applications, and this is dependent on high fidelity nanofabrication. " "" "Nanoscale structures with superior mechanical properties developed: http://lnkd.in/xRXT_k. View in LinkedIn

BIOINSPIRED DESIGN may be macro or micro, ranging from material sciences to photosynthetic imitators. With millions of years of evolution as the experimental force, we have an infinite source of ideas and solutions to complex problems that we may apply broadly. " " http://lnkd.in/CuKTi7 via @webecoist View in LinkedIn

NANOFABRICATION for chemical" "Catalysis and replication of the structural complexity of biological systems is key for nature-inspired technologies. The immense challenges of nano-scale fabrication is that the properties of materials on nano scale are entirely different from bulk properties. A glacier is not a snowflake. Atomic forces in nanofabrication become very real. Techniques that permit nanofabrication on a detailed level open many doors. " " http://lnkd.in/RrxjAw View in LinkedIn

ANTONI GAUDI was the Catalan modernist who aced architects worldwide by his radical and inspired designs. The Sagrada Familia (only commissioned by the Pope in 2010) would have been enough to give him worldwide status, but he completed many other major works, always inspired by nature, and conceived in immaculate 3D scale models. The complex geometry of his designs today requires a computer simulation to illustrate. He used an system of weighted bags hanging from wires to test the weight-bearing properties of his designs. http://lnkd.in/qQuqdv View in LinkedIn

DESKTOP NANOFABRICATION. Point of use nanofabrication makes it widely available. View in LinkedIn

BIOINSPIRED DESIGN is catching on in many fields. On Growth and Form (1917) by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson was a masterpiece describing the structural wisdom" "of nature, but without practical links. " "Gaudi's building Pedrera on Passeig de Gracia in Barcelona, which abhors the straight line, contains a curious reminder of some of his inspirations in a glass case: a python skeleton and other natural artifacts. From" "Bioenergy to biomaterials, nature continues to inspire curious minds. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nantod.2011.02.002 View in LinkedIn

MONA LISA 13 WIDTH OF HUMAN HAIR: this powerful technique enables very detailed nanofabrication. " " http://lnkd.in/YvC37R via @RandDMagazine View in LinkedIn

GAUDI'S STUNNING La Sagrada Família in Barcelona is the single most visited site in Spain, and is a mix of pure and mystical mathematics, with bioinspired design of the highest order. "It is more worthwhile to study nature directly" (Gaudi). The soaring columns change geometry from octagons to squares to circles along their length. It is the most beautiful piece of architecture and scholarship I have ever seen. " " http://lnkd.in/_8r8t4 View in LinkedIn