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The Gecko's Foot: Bio-inspiration - Engineering New Materials and Devices from Nature
The Gecko's Foot: Bio-inspiration - Engineering New Materials and Devices from Nature
Peter Forbes
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‘[Forbes has] An easy style and an innocence of jargon, and he treads softly on his scientists’ dreams. Forbes prefers the term “bio-inspiration” to “biomimetics”. The aim is not slavishly to imitate nature, but to learn from it to develop our own solutions... Read More

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