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- Presents the field of biomimetics
- Displays the commercial interest in applying biomimetics
- Discusses in detail the important effects: lotus effect, shark skin effect, rose petal effect
- Explains learning from nature for technology
- Gives applications in engineering
- Connects nanotechnology with biomimetics
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering (BIOMEDICAL)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Keywords
- Bioinspired surfaces
- Biomimetics inspired surfaces
- Butterfly wing effect
- Characterization of rose petals
- Gecko feet
- Green science and technology
- Hierarchical structures surfaces
- Lotus effect
- Properties of Nacre and structural coloration
- Shark skin effect
- Superhydrophobic surfaces
- Superoleophobicity self cleaning
- Superomniphobic surfaces
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Authors and Affiliations
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Nanoprobe Laboratory for Bio- &, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
Bharat Bhushan
About the author
Dr. Bharat Bhushan is an Ohio Eminent Scholar and The Howard D. Winbigler Professor in the College of Engineering, and the Director of the Nanoprobe Laboratory for Bio- & Nanotechnology and Biomimetics (NLB2) and affiliated faculty in John Glenn College of Public Affairs at the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. In 2013-14, he served as an ASME/AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow, House Committee on Science, Space & Technology, United States Congress, Washington, DC. He holds two M.S., a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering/mechanics, an MBA, and two honorary and two semi-honorary doctorates. His research interests include fundamental studies with a focus on scanning probe techniques in the interdisciplinary areas of bio/nanotribology, bio/nanomechanics and bio/nanomaterials characterization and applications to bio/nanotechnology, and biomimetics. He has authored 8 scientific books, 90+ handbook chapters, 800+ scientific papers (h index–76+; ISI Highly Cited Researcher in Materials Science since 2007 and in Biology and Biochemistry since 2013; ISI Top 5% Cited Authors for Journals in Chemistry since 2011), and 60+ scientific reports. He has also edited 50+ books and holds 20 U.S. and foreign patents. He is co-editor of Springer NanoScience and Technology Series and Microsystem Technologies, and member of editorial board of PNAS. He has organized various international conferences and workshops. He is the recipient of numerous prestigious awards and international fellowships including the Alexander von Humboldt Research Prize for Senior Scientists, Max Planck Foundation Research Award for Outstanding Foreign Scientists, Fulbright Senior Scholar Award, Life Achievement Tribology Award, and Institution of Chemical Engineers (UK) Global Award. His research was listed as the top ten science stories of 2015. He is a member of various professional societies, including the International Academy of Engineering (Russia). He has previously worked for various research labs including IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA. He has held visiting professorship at University of California at Berkeley, University of Cambridge, UK, Technical University Vienna, Austria, University of Paris, Orsay, ETH Zurich, EPFL Lausanne, Univ. of Southampton, UK, Univ. of Kragujevac, Serbia, Tsinghua Univ., China, Harbin Inst., China, and KFUPM, Saudi Arabia.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Biomimetics
Book Subtitle: Bioinspired Hierarchical-Structured Surfaces for Green Science and Technology
Authors: Bharat Bhushan
Series Title: Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28284-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-28284-8Published: 19 February 2016
Series ISSN: 1618-7210
Series E-ISSN: 2197-5647
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XXII, 591
Number of Illustrations: 161 b/w illustrations, 142 illustrations in colour
Additional Information: 2nd ed.
Topics: Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics, Nanotechnology, Surface and Interface Science, Thin Films, Tribology, Corrosion and Coatings, Surfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films