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Cutting performance of surgical electrodes by constructing bionic microstriped structures
Surgical electrodes rely on thermal effect of high-frequency current and are a widely used medical tool for cutting and coagulating biological...
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An Anisotropic Biomimetic Lemongrass Flexible Piezoelectric Actuator - Inhibitory Regression
At present, the existing piezoelectric stick-slip actuators have an inherent back-slip problem, which greatly limits the development and application...
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Smart Bionic Surfaces with Switchable Wettability and Applications
In order to satisfy the needs of different applications and more complex intelligent devices, smart control of surface wettability will be necessary...
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Tribological Hurdles in Biomedical Manufacturing: A Comprehensive Examination
Manufacturing of biomedical device involves in-depth understanding of tribology and biology, biotribology. The word “tribology,” comes from ancient...
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Building Magnetoresponsive Composite Elastomers for Bionic Locomotion Applications
The ability of natural living organisms, transferring deformations into locomotion, has attracted researchers’ increasing attention in building...
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Bio-inspired manufacturing of superwetting surfaces for fog collection and anti-icing applications
As a century-old concept, superwettability has aroused the interest of researchers in the past decades, attributed to the discoveries of the...
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Bioinspired Materials: From Distinct Dimensional Architecture to Thermal Regulation Properties
The structural evolutions of the organisms during the development of billions of years endow them with remarkable thermal-regulation properties,...
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Antifouling Technology Trends in Marine Environmental Protection
Marine fouling is a worldwide problem, which is harmful to the global marine ecological environment and economic benefits. The traditional...
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Research Progress on Corrosion Resistance of Magnesium Alloys with Bio-inspired Water-repellent Properties: A Review
Thanks to its excellent mechanical properties, magnesium alloys have many potential applications in the aerospace and other fields. However, failure...
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Research Progress in Preparation and Application of Photonic Crystals
Photonic crystals are periodic structural materials that have an impact on the propagation properties of photons. Due to their excellent optical,...
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A Comprehensive Review: Recent Developments of Biomimetic Sensors
With the fast development of Internet of Things, flexible and extensible sensors have undergone a great revolution. Because of the limited functions...
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Challenges and Opportunities of Hybrid Photovoltaic Thermal Collectors and Their Integration into Small-Scale Energy Systems for Prosumers
Hybrid Photovoltaic-Thermal panels combine the two traditional solar energy production technologies (photovoltaic and solar thermal) in a single...
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In situ Reduction of Silver Nanoparticles on Chitosan Hybrid Copper Phosphate Nanoflowers for Highly Efficient Plasmonic Solar-driven Interfacial Water Evaporation
The development of water purification device using solar energy has received tremendous attention. Despite extensive progress, traditional...
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Biodiversity of Excellence in Flora and Fauna: A Selection with Two Extra Examples from Nature Measurement and BIOGEONICS
In this chapter I would like to take you into the biodiversity of nature, into the immeasurable wealth of plants and animals, at least to give you a...
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Multiscale Simulation of a Novel Leaf-vein-inspired Gradient Porous Wick Structure
With the rapid development of photoelectric products, their miniaturization and high integration have intensified the problem of heat dissipation....
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Biomaterial Based Additive Manufacturing
Additive manufacturing (AM) has been applied to the field of medical engineering since its beginning. It takes into account individual differences...
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Multifunctional Flexible Humidity Sensor Systems Towards Noncontact Wearable Electronics
In the past decade, the global industry and research attentions on intelligent skin-like electronics have boosted their applications in diverse...
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Towards the Smart Filter
The chapter aims to introduce the reader and the designer in the field of membrane architecture, presenting its potential and future challenges. In...
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Laser surface functionalization to achieve extreme surface wetting conditions and resultant surface functionalities
Wetting condition of micro/nanostructured surface has received tremendous attention due to the potential applications in commercial, industrial, and...