It's Not a Bug, It's a Feature Functional Materials in Insects

It's Not a Bug, It's a Feature : Functional Materials in Insects

© 2018 The Authors. Published by WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.

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Veröffentlicht in:Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.). - 1998. - 30(2018), 19 vom: 08. Mai, Seite e1705322
1. Verfasser: Schroeder, Thomas B H (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Houghtaling, Jared, Wilts, Bodo D, Mayer, Michael
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2018
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
Schlagworte:Journal Article Review biomaterials entomology hierarchical materials nanomaterials structure-function relationships
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Zusammenfassung:© 2018 The Authors. Published by WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.
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
Beschreibung:Date Completed 07.03.2019
Date Revised 01.11.2023
published: Print-Electronic
Citation Status MEDLINE
ISSN:1521-4095
DOI:10.1002/adma.201705322