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Biomimicry

Biomimicry. Biomimicry – Bionic – Biomimetics . Humans have been learning from nature For a long time but only recently gave this practice a name. Biomimetics – Otto Schmitt coined the term in writing about his efforts to design a trigger based on the nerve cell of a squid in the 50’s.

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Biomimicry

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  1. Biomimicry

  2. Biomimicry – Bionic – Biomimetics Humans have been learning from nature For a long time but only recently gave this practice a name. Biomimetics – Otto Schmitt coined the term in writing about his efforts to design a trigger based on the nerve cell of a squid in the 50’s. Bionics – 1958 – goal to understand nature’s principles and use them as stimuli for innovation (then came the Bionic Man ‘74)

  3. Biomimicry Biomimicry-defined as a focus on how organisms in nature have solved a problem that we are trying to solve and then mimicking or learning from that process. Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature by Janine Benyusdefines biomimicry as a “new science that studies nature's models and then imitates or takes inspiration from these designs and processes to solve human problems"

  4. Biomimicry - Nature is a model of sustainability. For almost 4 billion years organisms have been evolving here on earth. If an organism survived, it has likely developed unique adaptions to meet challenging environments. For example – Think of an animal that moves slowly, how does it protect itself?

  5. Share your example Porcupine Blue tail lizard Snail Turtle Puffer fish Armadillo Opossium Oysters

  6. What do you see here?

  7. Biomimicry- Flying Machine Da Vinci’s Flying machine sketched after dissecting a bat.

  8. Project Ornithopter The Project Ornithopter aircraft accelerates, by flapping, on level pavement to lift-off speed in a test.Credit: Project Ornithopter

  9. Mercedes-Benz bionic car Who would have thought that a box shape would be aerodynamic and stable?

  10. Not only did they copy the body shape, they mimicked the materials in the body. The trunkfish has hexagonal shaped plates on it’s side to make it ridged and strong.The concept car uses plastic plates for light weigh and strength. This car is reported to be 30% lighter and safer plus gets 55 miles per gallon.

  11. ExploraVision National Winners Tejas Sundaresan and Jaehyeong Lee at NCSSM were curious about how one could get water in the dessert. John Petranka

  12. Inspiration from Beetle Inspiration Resourceful Self Cleaning plants

  13. Lab – Make your own Water Collecting Device • Additions lab ideas- • spacing between lines • Thickness of lines • other hydrophobic materials such as RainX

  14. Velcro – Inspired by Cockleburr George de Mestral, actually observed these burrs stuck to his dog when he was out one day, and this inspired him to invent Velcro. Velcro comes from a contraction of two French words: from velours for velvet comes ‘vel’ and ‘cro’ comes from crochet, which means hook, so Velcro might translate as velvet hook.

  15. Activity – Hitch Hiker I am sure all of you have experienced walking in the woods and getting seed burrs stuck to your clothes.

  16. Beggar’s Lice or Stick-tight Desmodium cuspidatum, Fabaceae

  17. Beggar-ticks (Bidens pilosa, Asteraceae)

  18. Making Use of waste CO2 Lots of interest today is how to reduce CO2 from the air. Brent Constantz of Stanford University was inspired to make concrete from the CO2 after thinking about how coral is produced He formed Calera, a company in Monterrey Bay to take the waste CO2 to make a new type of cement. The plant takes waste CO2 gas from a local power plant and mixes it with seawater to form carbonate, which combined with calcium in the seawater and makes calcium carbonate.

  19. Spider Silk or goat Milk Silk is 5 times stronger that steel and much more flexible. Scientists have inserted spider gene in goats and the goat produces the spider silk protein that can be used to make silk fibers.

  20. Sea Shells Chemistry Scientist have figured out how to mimick the ‘glue’ How can a mussel make a glue that sticks to rocks in water. Not only that but is strong enough to with stand the pounding of waves. Think about this! Do you know of any glue you can apply under water? • ‘

  21. INCH WORM

  22. INCH Worm

  23. John Petranka Bullet train had a problem of noise and vibrations when going through tunnels at high speeds. Engineer were inspired by birds entering the water without making a splash to change the front end of the train.

  24. Resources http://www.flickr.com/photos/jpflickr/8086655155/ http://www.ted.com/talks/michael_pawlyn_using_nature_s_genius_in_architecture.html http://www.asknature.org/article/view/what_is_biomimicry http://www.ted.com/talks/janine_benyus_shares_nature_s_designs.html http://www.biomimicryinstitute.org/case-studies/

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