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Showing 1 to 20 of 130 for “"bioinspired"”.
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Bioinspired Catalysts for Phosphoryl Transfer Reactions
Phosphoryl transfer reactions are ubiquitous in biology and are usually catalyzed by metalloenzymes. For a number of phosphoryltransfer enzymes, including the exonuclease subunit of DNA polymerase I, a mechanism involving two metal ions and double Lewis-acid activation of the substrate, combined …
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Tail use in bioinspired quadrupedal locomotion
… applications seen in nature may be of use to bioinspired roboticists in the future. I have provided a brief review of tail use as seen in nature. An experiment was performed using the MIT Cheetah to investigate the usefulness of tails in one particular instance. The Cheetah was set to stand …
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Interactive Fabrication & Design of Bioinspired Surface Geometry
With an enormous number of outstanding design works emerging, bio-inspired design strategies have arguably been one of the most popular design subjects in the past decades. These works are often praised for their higher resilience, adaptability, and efficiency. However, in the meantime, …
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Additively Manufactured Bioinspired Microstructures for Active Surface Modification
… have facilitated the development of bioinspired microstructures, which hold promise for applications, such as liquid transport, self-cleaning, and anti-icing. However, the controllability of these microstructures remains an area requiring further exploration. This research explores …
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Bioinspired Robust Underwater Behaviors Using Fluid Flow Sensing
… dissertation presents the development of a novel bioinspired flow-based perception scheme for small and wide-field objects, design and development of a strain sensor system and a robust controller for closed loop demonstration of rheotaxis and small and wide field object detection and avoidance. …
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Classifying and Predicting Dynamics with Bioinspired Machine Learning
Artificial neural networks train by finding optimal weights, which are the strengths of connections between neuronal nodes. These optimal values are found by minimizing the error between the neural network’s output and what we know should be the true output for given inputs used during training. …
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Bioinspired microvascular self-healing in polymers and composites
… beyond self-healing that are now possible in bioinspired microvascular materials.
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Bioinspired algorithmic-driven design of additively manufactured composites
… natural material design to create complex bioinspired architectures. Expanding the design space, however, is indiscriminate in terms of specific material property optimization. In order to best use the templates derived from nature, there needs to be a process to match form to function. …
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Bioinspired mineralization in hydrogels for sustainable materials processing
Biominerals have been widely studied due to their unique mechanical properties, afforded by their inorganic-organic composite structure and well-controlled growth in macromolecular environments. More recently, growing concerns over climate change and environmental sustainability and the emerging …
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A Bioinspired Approach to Engineer the Seed Microenvironment
Bioinspired by the tardigrade and bombyx mori, we engineer the seed microenvironment to encapsulate, preserve and deliver Rhizobium tropici. Scientific discoveries in agriculture and sustainability are at the crossroads of material science, biochemistry, agriculture and biology. They underpin the …
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Novel Bioinspired Pumping Models for Microscale Flow Transport
… dissertation presents two versions of a novel bioinspired pumping mechanism that is neither peristaltic nor belongs to impedance mismatch class of pumping mechanisms. The insect-inspired pumping models presented here are expected to function efficiently in the microscale flow regime in a simple …
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BIOINSPIRED POLYAMIDOAMINES AS INNOVATIVE FLAME RETARDANTS FOR CELLULOSIC FABRICS
… Carosio of Politecnico di Torino In this work, bioinspired polyamidoamines (PAAs) were synthesized by Michael-type polyaddition from N,N’-methylenebisacrylamide, M, and nine natural α-amino acids, namely L-alanine (M-ALA), L-valine (M-VAL), L-leucine (M-LEU), L-histidine (M-HIS), L-serine …
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Bioinspired, perovskite-based, wavelength-resolved UV-visible imaging sensors
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-03-01 without embargo terms
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Sacrificial polymers for rapid manufacturing of bioinspired vascular materials
… polymerization and depolymerization reactions. Bioinspired thermosets with redundant vascular networks are fabricated with this single-step approach. In addition, vascular FRPCs are manufactured within seconds at room temperature, reducing fabrication time by three orders of magnitude and …
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Bioinspired scattering materials: light transport in anisotropic, disordered systems
… on these findings, the optical properties of bioinspired, scattering systems — obtained both via polymer phase separation and a combination of sequential vacuum filtration and freeze-drying — were investigated. Notably, the reported materials achieve scattering properties comparable to those …
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Microfluidic synthesis, characterization, and applications of bioinspired deformable microparticles
Polymeric microparticles have a wide variety of uses, ranging from traditional applications in paints and coatings, to specialized applications in medical therapeutics and diagnostics. For biological applications - including drug delivery, analytical assays, and tissue engineering - it is important …
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Engineering Biomedical and Bioinspired Fiber Devices via Thermal Drawing
… strain treatment, the soft robots can show bioinspired locomotion for biomedical applications under simplified magnetic fields. Lastly, artificial muscle fibers advance in selectively controllable form with rapid response. Liquid metal integrated into thermally drawn bimorph fibers serves as …
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Nonlinear viscoelastic materials : bioinspired applications and new characterization measures
Viscoelastic materials, such as biomaterials and non-Newtonian fluids, typically experience mechanical loading which evokes a nonlinear rheological response. Rheologically complex materials can provide novel functionality in biological and engineered systems. However, it is found that standard …
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Design, fabrication, and application of bioinspired soft photonic materials
When one thinks of color, the first thing which comes to mind is often absorption by pigments and dyes or emission by lights and displays. However, there is another mechanism known as structural color, most commonly seen in the swirling colors of a soap bubble. This is a wave phenomenon, where …
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