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  1. Self-repairing and strong materials

    28 Sep 2019

    Nacre, 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 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Paua3.jpg Design…

  2. Bird-of-Paradise Flower

    30 Jul 2019

    The 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…

  3. Planes, trains and automobiles

    28 Jun 2019

    Engineers 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…
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