Remarkable Natural Material Surfaces and Their Engineering Potential
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This book explores a collection of natural surfaces, their scientific characteristics, and their unique engineering potential – demonstrating that engineering applications can be found in unexpected places. The surfaces covered range from botanical ones, like rice and lotus leaves, to insect surfaces, like butterfly and dragonfly wings. The variety of surfaces and numerous engineering potentials described show how biomimicry can be utilized to solve countless real-world problems.
This book explores a collection of natural surfaces, their scientific characteristics and their unique engineering potential – demonstrating that engineering applications can be found in unexpected places. The surfaces covered range from botanical ones, like rice and lotus leaves, to insect surfaces, like butterfly and dragonfly wings. The variety of surfaces and numerous engineering potentials described show how biomimicry can be utilized to solve countless real‐world problems.
Discusses natural surfaces in a format that is accessible to less technical readers Contains material on natural surfaces that can be found locally Encourages readers to explore the engineering value of the natural surfaces surrounding them Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Michelle Lee
Themen in »Remarkable Natural Material Surfaces and Their Engineering Potential«
Biomimicry Diatoms Engineering Applications of Natural Phenomena Engineering Potential of Natural Surfaces Interacting Surfaces Micro-tribology Nanotribology Natural Surfacess Superhydrophobic Surfaces Surface Coating Surface Engineering Surface Finishing biochemical engineering
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From the book reviews:
“This is a fascinating collection of 13 popular science–level, short articles on naturally occurring surfaces, some of their outstanding properties, and possible applications in engineered surfaces. … Each chapter contains a description of the natural surface, the fundamental engineering principles underlying its function, potential engineering applications, and a bibliography. The brief, uniformly presented chapters, with a well-balanced layout of text, images, and basic equations, can be read easily. … Summing Up: Highly recommended. All students and general readers.” (J. Lambropoulos, Choice, Vol. 52 (5), January, 2015)()