Nature-inspired design of motif-specific antibody scaffolds

Nature-Inspired Informatics for Telecommunication Network Design

The speedy pace of change in telecommunications and its ubiquitous presence have drastically altered the way people interact, impacting production, government, and social life. The infrastructure for providing telecommunication services must be continuously renewed, as innovative technologies emerge and drive changes by offering to bring new services to the end users. In this context, the probl...

Nature of creative analogies in biologically inspired innovative design

Designing and Creating a Mouse Using Nature-Inspired Shapes

Human beings have always made their tools and instruments they need using patterns in nature. Mimicking nature has become the foundation of a new science called Biomimetics. In the present article, multiple forms and levels in nature were utilized to design and create a mouse. The rivers are a good source for choosing the shape of a mouse with lots of stones abraded through the centuries which ...

On the development of ice-templated silicon carbide scaffolds for nature-inspired structural materials

The processing of ceramic scaffolds using the ice-templating, or freeze casting, technique provides a relatively simple means to mimic the hierarchical design of natural materials such as nacre. In the present study, we investigated the architecture of silicon carbide (SiC) scaffolds produced by this technique over a range of cooling rates and suspension characteristics to demonstrate its versa...

Bio-Inspired Design: What Can We Learn from Nature?

Bio-inspired design, as it will be developed in this essay, draws heavily on E.O. Wilson’s concept of biophilia and related work in environmental aesthetics. There are other valuable approaches to bio-inspired design, particularly those stemming from a consideration of the functions and processes of nature as so eloquently described by Janine Benyus in Biomimicry. My focus here, in contrast, is...