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ADVANCED MATERIALS
卷 30, 期 19, 页码 -出版社
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201705322
关键词
biomaterials; entomology; hierarchical materials; nanomaterials; structure-function relationships
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资金
- National Centre of Competence in Research Bio-Inspired Materials
- Adolphe Merkle Foundation
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research [FA9550-12-1-0435]
- Graduate Research Fellowship from the United States National Science Foundation
- Ambizione program of the Swiss National Science Foundation SNSF [168223]
Over the course of their wildly successful proliferation across the earth, the insects as a taxon have evolved enviable adaptations to their diverse habitats, which include adhesives, locomotor systems, hydrophobic surfaces, and sensors and actuators that transduce mechanical, acoustic, optical, thermal, and chemical signals. Insect-inspired designs currently appear in a range of contexts, including antireflective coatings, optical displays, and computing algorithms. However, as over one million distinct and highly specialized species of insects have colonized nearly all habitable regions on the planet, they still provide a largely untapped pool of unique problem-solving strategies. With the intent of providing materials scientists and engineers with a muse for the next generation of bioinspired materials, here, a selection of some of the most spectacular adaptations that insects have evolved is assembled and organized by function. The insects presented display dazzling optical properties as a result of natural photonic crystals, precise hierarchical patterns that span length scales from nanometers to millimeters, and formidable defense mechanisms that deploy an arsenal of chemical weaponry. Successful mimicry of these adaptations may facilitate technological solutions to as wide a range of problems as they solve in the insects that originated them.
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