What do a cat’s prickly tongue, a pine cone and fungus all have in common? On the surface, not much. But dig deeper, and each is inspiring a facet of the beauty industry. That’s because cosmetics- and ...

AFTER taking his dog for a walk one day in the early 1940s, George de Mestral, a Swiss inventor, became curious about the seeds of the burdock plant that had attached themselves to his clothes and to ...

Three centuries of research, beginning with Hooke and Newton, have revealed a diversity of optical devices at the submicrometre scale in nature 1. These include one-dimensional multilayer reflectors, ...

Engineers and researchers looking for the next big thing are turning more than ever to their own back yards for inspiration. Some are taking clues from the elegance of a falcon's flight, the ...

Engineers, chemists and others taking inspiration from biological systems for human applications must team up with biologists, writes Emilie Snell-Rood. In the late 1940s, Swiss engineer George de ...

Biomolecules such as hemoglobin or chlorophyll are difficult to study. It is worth investigating similar but simpler structures in the lab. Unexpected behavior has now been found in phthalocyanines, ...

CiteScore 2025正式公布。Biomimetics 期刊收获了最新的CiteScore：6.2；相较于上一年提高了47.6%，在Biomedical Engineering领域排名122，前36%。在此，Biomimetics 期刊编辑部谨向一直以来支持与认可我们的学者致以诚挚谢意。 期刊简介 Biomimetics (ISSN 2313-7673) 是一个国际型开放 ...

Scientists at Heriot-Watt University have unlocked the secret behind how female sawflies make specific cuts to plants—a discovery that could revolutionize surgical instruments and dramatically reduce ...

近日，CiteScore 2025正式公布。Biomimetics期刊收获了最新的CiteScore：6.2；相较于上一年提高了47.6%，在Biomedical Engineering领域排名122 ...

In current trends in materials science, scientists aim to develop carbon materials with controlled microarchitectures and morphologies at large scales using renewable and biodegradable natural sources ...