Bionic building energy efficiency and bionic green architecture are important means of
ensuring harmony between buildings and the natural environment, maintaining ecological …

This chapter presents an overview of this emerging field, investigating the overlaps between
biology and architecture. A brief description of historic developments and classical …

Biomimetics is a field that has the potential to drive major technical advances. It might
substantially support successful mastering of current tribological challenges, ie, friction …

Engineers, designers and architects often look to nature for inspiration, aiming at innovation
and the improvement of architectural quality. In several design studies, supervised by the …

Design inspired by nature has been known as biomimicry or biomimetic design that is
believed to transform human technologies into a sustainable status through translation of …

Nature's materials are complex, multi-functional, hierarchical and responsive and in most
instances functionality on the nanoscale is combined with performance on the macroscale …

A small filamentous centric diatom, Hyalodiscopsis plana (Kozyr.) Kozyr. & Lastivka, was
collected from a subtidal Macrocystis pyrifera (L.) C. Agardh kelp forest off the coast of …

Demands for new architecture that is more fluid, interactive, functional, and adaptable to the
changes of economic atmosphere and design principles are changing the concept of forms …

Se llevó a cabo el análisis de diatomitas modificadas, propuestas como catalizadores para
esterificaciones (reacciones modelo para producción de biodiesel). Los materiales …

One of the fascinating aspects of nanotechnology is that on the nanometer scale all the
natural sciences meet and intertwine. Physics meets life sciences as well as tribology …