Bulletproof Feathers How Science Uses Nature's Secrets to Design Cutting-Edge Technology

Name: Bulletproof Feathers How Science Uses Nature's Secrets to Design Cutting-Edge Technology
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ISBN: 9780226014708

ISBN-10: 0226014703

ISBN-13: 9780226014708

Edition: 2010

Authors: Robert Allen

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Fabrics that are not only stain resistant but actually clean themselves. Airplane wings that change shape in midair to take advantage of shifts in wind currents. Hypodermic needles that use tiny serrations to render injections virtually pain free. Though they may sound like the stuff of science fiction, in fact such inventions represent only the most recent iterations of natural mechanisms that are billions of years oldthe focus of the rapidly growing field of biomimetics. Based on the realization that natural selection has for countless eons been conducting trial-and-error experiments with the laws of physics, chemistry, material science, and engineering, biomimetics takes nature as its…

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List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 5/30/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 192
Size: 8.40" wide x 8.40" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.716

Robert Allen is a sub-editor at The Sunday Times. He is also part of an eco-social group, An Talamh Glas, which publishes www.bluegreenearth.com, featuring media activists from across the world.