The Gecko's Foot: Bio- Inspiration: Engineering New Materials from Nature: Bio-Inspiration: Engineered from Nature - Softcover

Forbes, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393337979 ISBN 13: 9780393337976

Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

"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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Peter Forbes is a translator, science writer, and editor of Scanning the Century: The Penguin Book of the Twentieth Century in Poetry. He lives in London.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0393337979
• ISBN 13: 9780393337976
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 294
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