The Gecko's Foot
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| Rating | : | 4.71 (854 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0007179898 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 356 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-10-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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Annie said What a fascinating book! Nature is awesome!. I learned so much about how the tiniest aspects of nature work, and how we as humans can learn from this.. Excellent Frontier Science Book J. head This book is an excellent choice to explain a frontier area of Technology. In the realm of the miniature, specifically the nano realm, the realm between one millionth and one billionth of a meter, nature packs in a world of surprises that affect us in the real world. The author points out that as science and technology progess into this nano realm we often duplicate what nature has already invented "bioinspiration". The author brings out some very interesting examples of nature and man made parallels such as, self cleaning glass that imitates the lotus flower petal's method of remaining spotless, and photonic crystals compared to illum. Joshua Url said Really fascinating subject matter. Very intriguing discussion of bio-inspiration and how it is being applied in a variety of fields. I definitely recommend it!
He has succeeded splendidly.’ Hugh Aldersey-Williams, Independent‘The book is a witty blend of anecdote and analysis.’ Rita Carter, Daily Mail‘Forbes provides an illuminating discussion of the evolution of visual systems and the emergence of contemporary understandings of the nature of light.’ Dr Brendan Kelly, Sunday Business Post. The aim is not slavishly to imitate nature, but to learn from it to develop our own solutions to engineering problems. ‘Forbes has An easy style and an innocence of jargon, and he treads softly on his scientists’ dreams. Forbes prefers the term “bio-inspiration” to “biomimetics”. And he is surely right to pounce now, before inspiration turns to perspiration
Recently however the secret was solved by a team of scientists in Oregon who established that the mechanism really is dry, and that it does not involve suction, capillary action or anything else the lay person might imagine. A cutting-edge science book in the style of ‘Fermat’s Last Theorem’ and ‘Chaos’ from an exciting and accessible new voice in popular science writing.Bio-inspiration is a form of engineering but not in the conventional sense. The fine scale of the gecko's foot is beyond the capacity of conventional microengineering, but a team of nanotechnologists have already made a good initial approximation.The gecko's foot is just one of many examples of this new 'smart' science. Extending beyond our established and preconceived notions, scientists, architects and engineers are looking at imitating nature by manufacturing 'wet' materials such as spider silk or the surface of the gecko's foot.The amazing power of the gecko's foot has long been known – it can climb a vertical glass wall and even walk upside down on the ceiling – but no
He was the editor of Poetry Review from 1986 to 2002 and his anthology ‘Scanning the Century: The Penguin Book of the Twentieth Century in Verse’ was widely acclaimed. Peter Forbes has written a series of articles Biomimetics for the Guardian and a chapter on the same subject for the Guardian’s book, ‘Frontiers 03’ (Atlantic Books). He translated Primo Levi’s personal anth