Biomimetics - Brian Clegg

Biomimetics

How Lessons from Nature can Transform Technology

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
176 Seiten
2023
Icon Books (Verlag)
978-1-78578-989-2 (ISBN)
13,70 inkl. MwSt
An exploration of the transformative ways in which nature has inspired the technological advancement of humankind.

Biomimetics literally means emulating biology - and in a broader sense the term covers technological advances where the original inspiration came from nature. The Earth is a vast laboratory where the mechanisms of natural selection have enabled evolutionary solutions to be developed to a wide range of problems.

In this new title in the Hot Science series, science writer Brian Clegg looks at how humans have piggybacked on natural experimentation, redeploying a solution to create things that make our lives easier. He looks at how the hooks on burdock seeds inspired the creation of Velcro, how the stickiness of the feet of geckos and frogs has been used to create gripping surfaces, such as tyre treads, and how even the most basic optical enhancement in the form of spectacles is itself a form of biomimetics.

Brian Clegg is a popular science writer whose Dice World and A Brief History of Infinity were both longlisted for the Royal Society Prize for Science Books. He has written for publications including Nature, The Times and BBC Focus.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Hot Science
Verlagsort Duxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 129 x 198 mm
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Natur / Technik Natur / Ökologie
Technik
ISBN-10 1-78578-989-9 / 1785789899
ISBN-13 978-1-78578-989-2 / 9781785789892
Zustand Neuware
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