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Oh yes somebody seems to have found a link between CMS and Biomimetics. Everything is possible now, even Fundamental physics !

Neural networks = biomimetics. That's the conclusion from the TOC. It seems that biomimetics becomes the worse usurper than string theory.

"The field of biomimicry mostly involves chemists, engineers and materials scientists. Fewer than 8% of the nearly 300 studies on biomimetics published in the past 3 months and indexed in the Thomson Reuters Web of Science had an author working in a biology department - a crude proxy for 'a biologist'."

not yet for space'ships' but nice biomimetic research

This is about biological and technical hygromorphs, i.e. structures that change shape according to humidity. Next to pine cones, there is also a cool study on wheat awns which drill themselves into the soil just by daily variance of air humidity. Biomimetics would be passively controlled acutators or humidity driven valves in space station to open/close dehumidification devices.

Interesting, but only an abstract... do you have the full paper ?

Not yet. There is also some other nice mechanism of wheat awns and how they use changes in humidity to anchor in soil. Would maybe fit with the above mentioned work of oisin.

Space and Biomimetics at ESA!!

pretty awesome Opens the door to a lot more biomimetic approaches

The cooperation took place through ESA's Networking/Partnering Initiative, which supports work carried out by universities and research institutes on advanced technologies with potential space applications.

really nice, especially since it is an idea that started in the team, led to an Ariadna study by Carlo Menon, RF in biomimetics who then got a research position at simon fraser univ, where he created his own biomimetics group menvra (http://menrva.ensc.sfu.ca) there, struggling as an italian in a canadian university doing space and not having access to the US space market ... the NPI was the first contract he got for a space resaerch project ... its fantastic to see his student now making headlines with this idea

The opposite of biomimetic :)

A recently published review on insect flight appeared in Review of Modern Physics. It might be of interest to the biomimetics unit.

Several recent papers on biomimetics and photonics, including works on structural colours, radiation shielding, spiders and more.

including one for Tom: Structural color and its interaction with other color-producing elements: perspectives from spiders Bor-Kai Hsiung ; Todd A. Blackledge ; Matthew D. Shawkey [+] Author Affiliations Proc. SPIE 9187, The Nature of Light: Light in Nature V, 91870B (September 8, 2014); doi:10.1117/12.2060831

Octopus and optoelectronics camouflage, light bugs and LEDs, or spider webs and touch screens, ... a whole cool bunch of biomimetic stuff

See also the referred work "Light-extraction enhancement for light-emitting diodes: a firefly-inspired structure refined by the genetic algorithm" - quite cool! https://pure.fundp.ac.be/portal/files/11946897/paper89.pdf

Quantum-stuff in bio-stuff. Finally! Anyone wants to work on biomimetic quantum theory?

I'll start once we have the "Topological Metabiostring".

ooh yeah! do you have some time on sunday...? well this falls i think in the "Can we use it for space?" category... but I would like to read a bit more about it (just had the time to read the sciencenow news few post below...)

Another futuristic view on flying by Airbus. To make it more sexy it also includes some biomimetics...

"The cabin electrical system can be compared to the human brain, with a network of intelligence pulsating through the cabin.". Oh, come on, ...

...This slippery surface was bio-inspired by the carnivorous plant I showed you sometimes ago! I was sure it was a good idea! next time I will be quicker!!

And a good lesson that it is important to proceed quickly when you have an idea and don't wait ...

Yes, I will see what we could do, but they really did a good job, from the biomimetic of the surface, up to the realization of the material, and the tests...

wow ... nice project ... and very simple indeed!

sweet! That's a convincing biomimetic study :) Especially when it falls and survives...

nice and good work, as usual from this lab. however, biomimetic is only the name, as usual from this lab.

Biomimetic Gradient Index Lenses - from fish

nice biomimetic approach ...

interesting for biomimetic ideas??