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Self-repairing and strong materials
28 Sep 2019Nacre, which is also known as Mother of Pearl, is a naturally occurring composite formed from calcium carbonate and biopolymers that create a brickwork structure. It is also nearly a thousand times stronger than any of its component parts and a major target for biomimetic synthesis.
Abalone Shell
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Bird-of-Paradise Flower
30 Jul 2019The Bird-of-Paradise Flower or Strelitzia is a genus of five species of perennial plants, native to South Africa. Academics from the University of Stuttgart were tasked to develop a hingeless louvre system that can be developed for irregularly shaped buildings. After analysing a number of plant species, they settled on…
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Planes, trains and automobiles
28 Jun 2019Engineers and designers can learn a lot from the way that nature utilises diverse materials in complex ways. We lived in harmony with the natural world before the Industrial Revolution. That changed with the advent of new manufacturing processes in the mid-eighteenth century. We are now seeing a change…