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"Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you." When Frank Lloyd Wright said this, he probably wasn't envisioning self-cleaning surfaces, the photonic crystal, or Velcro. But nature has indeed yielded such inventions for those scientists and engineers who heeded the architect's words. The cutting-edge science of bio-inspiration gives way to architectural and product designs that mimic intricate mechanisms found in nature. ... more

     

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      Used Very Good(1 Copy): Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket 0393062236. 1.2 x 9.3 x 6.3 Inches; 272 pages; Price on DJ is $24.95. # line 1234567890.; From DJ: "Bio-inspiration is the new engineering: nature's own nanotechnology. Instead of-in crude terms-welding large pieces of hard, "dry, " right-angled metal together, scientists, architects, and engineers are now taking a leaf from nature's book by building intricate structures with surprising new properties, using the kind of "wet" self-assembly techniques that nature has perfected over millions of years of evolution. The quest to match the amazing adhesion of the gecko's foot is just one of many examples of this new science. In Peter Forbes's engaging book we also discover how George de Mestral's brush with the spiny fruits of the cocklebur inspired him to invent the hook-and-loop fastener usually known by its trade name Velcro; how unfolding leaves, insect wings, and space solar panels share similar origami folding patterns; how the self-cleaning leaves of the sacred lotus plant spawned a new industry of self-cleaning surfaces; and how the photonic crystal, perhaps the most important innovation since the transistor, was actually invented by the humble sea creature Aphrodite eons ago. The new "smart" science of bio-inspiration is going to produce a plethora of products over the next decades that will transform our lives and force us to look at the world in a completely new way. It is the science we will be reading about in tomorrow's papers; it is the science of tomorrow's world."
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      "Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you." When Frank Lloyd Wright said this, he probably wasn't envisioning self-cleaning surfaces, the photonic crystal, or Velcro. But nature has indeed yielded such inventions for those scientists and engineers who heeded the architect's words. The cutting-edge science of bio-inspiration gives way to architectural and product designs that mimic intricate mechanisms found in nature. In Peter Forbes's engaging book we discover that the spiny fruits of the cocklebur inspired the hook-and-loop fastener known as Velcro; unfolding leaves, insect wings, and space solar panels share similar origami folding patterns; the self-cleaning leaves of the sacred lotus plant have spawned a new industry of self-cleaning surfaces; and cantilever bridges have much in common with bison spines. As we continue to study nature, bio-inspiration will transform our lives and force us to look at the world in a new way.

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      • Media: Hardcover Book, 272 pages
      • Language: English
      • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
      • ISBN-10: 0393062236
      • ISBN-13: 9780393062236
      • Dimensions: 6.44 x 9.60 x 0.98 inches
      • Shipping Weight: 1.19 lbs
      • Categories: Inventions General Biology

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