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

Mon, 2010/07/12 - 14:48 — nhoeller
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Edited by Robert Allen (2010), The Ivy Press Limited, Lewes, UK.

Also available on Amazon.ca

This recently published book includes a wealth of natural strategies and shows how they are related to existing as well as future technologies.

  

Contents:

  • Marine Dynamics (Jeannette Yen)
  • Humanlike Robots (Yoseph Bar-Cohen)
  • Underwater Bioacoustics (Tomonari Akamatsu)
  • Cooperative Behavior (Robert Allen)
  • Moving Heat and Fluids (Steven Vogel)
  • New Materials and Natural Design (Julian Vincent)
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Thu, 2010/07/15 - 17:54 — nhoeller
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'New Materials and Natural Design'

A brief overview of Julian Vincent's chapter is posted at http://bioinspired.sinet.ca/content/bio-inspired-design-landscape#materials.

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