Abstract:
:By mimicking naturally occurring superhydrophobic surfaces, scientists can now realize artificial surfaces on which droplets of a few microliters of water are forced to assume an almost spherical shape and an extremely high contact angle. In recent decades, these surfaces have attracted much attention due to their technological applications for anti-wetting and self-cleaning materials. Very recently, researchers have shifted their interest to investigate whether superhydrophobic surfaces can be exploited to study biological systems. This research effort has stimulated the design and realization of new devices that allow us to actively organize, visualize and manipulate matter at both the microscale and nanoscale levels. Such precise control opens up wide applications in biomedicine, as it allows us to directly manipulate objects at the typical length scale of cells and macromolecules. This progress report focuses on recent biological and medical applications of superhydrophobicity. Particular regard is paid to those applications that involve the detection, manipulation and study of extremely small quantities of molecules, and to those that allow high throughput cell and biomaterial screening.
journal_name
Bioinspir Biomimjournal_title
Bioinspiration & biomimeticsauthors
Ciasca G,Papi M,Businaro L,Campi G,Ortolani M,Palmieri V,Cedola A,De Ninno A,Gerardino A,Maulucci G,De Spirito Mdoi
10.1088/1748-3190/11/1/011001subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2016-02-04 00:00:00pages
011001issue
1eissn
1748-3182issn
1748-3190journal_volume
11pub_type
杂志文章,评审abstract::A fiber optic sensor inspired by the compound eye of the common housefly, Musca domestica, has been developed. The sensor coupled with analog preprocessing hardware has the potential to extract edge information quickly and in parallel. The design is motivated by the parallel nature of the fly's vision system and its d...
journal_title:Bioinspiration & biomimetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1088/1748-3182/3/2/026003
更新日期:2008-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::The formation aspects of a polycrystalline self-assembled bioceramic leading to the nucleation of hard-tissue mineral from a supersaturated solution are discussed. Scanning electron imaging and surface-sensitive interrogations of the nucleated mineral indicated the presence of an intermediate amorphous layer encompass...
journal_title:Bioinspiration & biomimetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1088/1748-3182/1/1/002
更新日期:2006-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::In addition to their visual sense, weakly electric fish use active electrolocation to detect and analyse objects in their nearby environment. Their ability to generate and sense electric fields combined with scanning-like swimming movements are intended to extract further parameters like the size, shape and material p...
journal_title:Bioinspiration & biomimetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1088/1748-3190/aae23f
更新日期:2018-10-16 00:00:00
abstract::Civil structures, such as buildings and bridges, are constantly at risk of failure due to external environmental loads, such as earthquakes or strong winds. To minimize the effects of these loads, active feedback control systems have been proposed but such systems still face numerous challenges which impede their wide...
journal_title:Bioinspiration & biomimetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1088/1748-3190/ab033b
更新日期:2019-02-27 00:00:00
abstract::Research on quadrupedal robots inspired by canids or felids have been widely reported and demonstrated. However, none of these legged robots can deal with difficult environments that include water, such as small lakes, streams, rain, mud, flooded terrain, etc. In this paper, we present for the first time a kinematic a...
journal_title:Bioinspiration & biomimetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1088/1748-3190/ab3d05
更新日期:2019-09-13 00:00:00
abstract::A neuromechanical simulation of a planar, bipedal walking robot has been developed. It is constructed as a simplified, planar musculoskeletal model of the biomechanics of the human lower body. The controller consists of a dynamic neural network with central pattern generators (CPGs) entrained by force and movement sen...
journal_title:Bioinspiration & biomimetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1088/1748-3190/aa8290
更新日期:2017-10-16 00:00:00
abstract::Recent developments in the design and propulsion of biomimetic autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) have focused on boxfish as models (e.g. Deng and Avadhanula 2005 Biomimetic micro underwater vehicle with oscillating fin propulsion: system design and force measurement Proc. 2005 IEEE Int. Conf. Robot. Auto. (Barcelo...
journal_title:Bioinspiration & biomimetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1088/1748-3182/3/3/034002
更新日期:2008-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::Limitations in actuation, sensing, and computation have forced small legged robots to rely on carefully tuned, mechanically mediated leg trajectories for effective locomotion. Recent advances in manufacturing, however, have enabled in such robots the ability for operation at multiple stride frequencies using multi-deg...
journal_title:Bioinspiration & biomimetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1088/1748-3190/ab295b
更新日期:2019-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::Swimming fish and flying insects use the flapping of fins and wings to generate thrust. In contrast, microscopic organisms typically deform their appendages in a wavelike fashion. Since a flapping motion with two degrees of freedom is able, in theory, to produce net forces from a time-periodic actuation at all Reynold...
journal_title:Bioinspiration & biomimetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1088/1748-3182/9/1/016001
更新日期:2014-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::Birds fly in dynamic flight conditions while maintaining aerodynamic efficiency. This agility is in part due to specialized feather systems that function as flow control devices during adverse conditions such as high-angle of attack maneuvers. In this paper, we present an engineered three-dimensional leading-edge devi...
journal_title:Bioinspiration & biomimetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1088/1748-3190/ab36ad
更新日期:2019-08-29 00:00:00
abstract::Designing bio-inspired, multifunctional organic-inorganic composite materials is one of the most popular current research objectives. Due to the high complexity of biocomposite structures found in nacre and bone, for example, a one-pot scalable and versatile synthesis approach addressing structural key features of bio...
journal_title:Bioinspiration & biomimetics
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1088/1748-3190/11/3/035002
更新日期:2016-05-13 00:00:00
abstract::Autonomic self-healing materials, where initiation of repair is integral to the material, are being developed for engineering applications. This bio-inspired concept offers the designer an ability to incorporate secondary functional materials capable of counteracting service degradation whilst still achieving the prim...
journal_title:Bioinspiration & biomimetics
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1088/1748-3182/2/1/P01
更新日期:2007-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::Starting from biological systems, we review the interest of active perception for object recognition in an autonomous system. Foveated vision and control of the eye saccade introduce strong benefits related to the differentiation of a 'what' pathway recognizing some local parts in the image and a 'where' pathway relat...
journal_title:Bioinspiration & biomimetics
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1088/1748-3190/ab504c
更新日期:2020-02-14 00:00:00
abstract::Insects are the main source of inspiration for flapping-wing micro air vehicles (FWMAVs). They frequently encounter wind gust perturbations in natural environments, and effectively cope with these perturbations. Here, we investigated the rapid gust response of flies to instruct the gust stability design of FWMAVs. A n...
journal_title:Bioinspiration & biomimetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1088/1748-3190/ab97fc
更新日期:2020-07-07 00:00:00
abstract::Electric fish are privileged animals for bio-inspiring man-built autonomous systems since they have a multimodal sense that allows underwater navigation, object classification and intraspecific communication. Although there are taxon dependent variations adapted to different environments, this multimodal system can be...
journal_title:Bioinspiration & biomimetics
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1088/1748-3190/12/2/025004
更新日期:2017-02-02 00:00:00
abstract::Despite the increased interest in exoskeleton research in the last decades, not much progress has been made on the successful reduction of user effort. In humans, biarticular elements have been identified as one of the reasons for the energy economy of locomotion. This document gives an extensive literature overview c...
journal_title:Bioinspiration & biomimetics
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1088/1748-3190/aa806e
更新日期:2017-11-08 00:00:00
abstract::Monodispersed iron phosphate hollow microspheres with a high degree of crystallization were prepared through a facile in situ deposition method using rape pollen grains as a biotemplate. The functional group on the surface of the pollen grains could adsorb Fe(3+), which provided the nucleation sites for growth of iron...
journal_title:Bioinspiration & biomimetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1088/1748-3182/5/1/016005
更新日期:2010-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::The intrinsic muscular properties of biological muscles are the main source of stabilization during locomotion, and superior biological performance is obtained with low energy costs. Man-made actuators struggle to reach the same energy efficiency seen in biological muscles. Here, we compare muscle properties within a ...
journal_title:Bioinspiration & biomimetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1088/1748-3190/11/3/036002
更新日期:2016-04-12 00:00:00
abstract::The Venus flytrap uses bistability, the structural characteristic of its leaf, to actuate the leaf's rapid closing motion for catching its prey. This paper presents a flytrap-inspired robot and novel actuation mechanism that exploits the structural characteristics of this structure and a developable surface. We focus ...
journal_title:Bioinspiration & biomimetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1088/1748-3182/9/3/036004
更新日期:2014-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::The Wyoming Information, Signal Processing, and Robotics Laboratory is developing a wide variety of bio-inspired vision sensors. We are interested in exploring the vision system of various insects and adapting some of their features toward the development of specialized vision sensors. We do not attempt to supplant tr...
journal_title:Bioinspiration & biomimetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1088/1748-3182/4/4/046002
更新日期:2009-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::Marvelous vision based dynamic behaviors of insects and birds such as perching, landing, and obstacle avoidance have inspired scientists to propose the idea of time-to-contact, which is defined as the time for a moving observer to contact an object or surface if the current velocity is maintained. Since with only a vi...
journal_title:Bioinspiration & biomimetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1088/1748-3190/aa53c4
更新日期:2017-01-31 00:00:00
abstract::Design computation has profound impact on architectural design methods. This paper explains how computational design enables the development of biomimetic design processes specific to architecture, and how they need to be significantly different from established biomimetic processes in engineering disciplines. The pap...
journal_title:Bioinspiration & biomimetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1088/1748-3182/7/1/015003
更新日期:2012-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::The propulsive dynamics of a flexible undulating foil in a self-propelled swimming configuration near a wall is studied experimentally. Measurements of the swimming speed and the propulsive force are presented, together with image acquisition of the kinematics of the foil and particle image velocimetry (PIV) in its wa...
journal_title:Bioinspiration & biomimetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1088/1748-3190/10/1/016003
更新日期:2015-01-05 00:00:00
abstract::In this paper, the effect of torso flexibility on the energetics of quadrupedal bounding is examined in a template setting. Two reductive sagittal-plane models, one with a rigid, non-deformable torso and one with a flexible, unactuated torso are proposed. Both models feature non-trivial leg mass and inertia to capture...
journal_title:Bioinspiration & biomimetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1088/1748-3190/10/5/056008
更新日期:2015-09-03 00:00:00
abstract::This study presents the replication of a color-causing nanostructure based on the upper laminae of numerous cover scales of Morpho peleides butterfly wings and obtained solely by imprinting their upper-wing surfaces. Our results indicate that a simple casting technique using a novel integrated release agent can obtain...
journal_title:Bioinspiration & biomimetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1088/1748-3190/11/1/016006
更新日期:2016-02-02 00:00:00
abstract::In this paper, we present a numerical model capable of solving the fluid-structure interaction problems involved in the dynamics of skeleton-reinforced fish fins. In this model, the fluid dynamics is simulated by solving the Navier-Stokes equations using a finite-volume method based on an overset, multi-block structur...
journal_title:Bioinspiration & biomimetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1088/1748-3190/ab0fbe
更新日期:2019-04-10 00:00:00
abstract::Passive dynamic walking is a model that walks down a shallow slope without any control or input. This model has been widely used to investigate how humans walk with low energy consumption and provides design principles for energy-efficient biped robots. However, the basin of attraction is very small and thin and has a...
journal_title:Bioinspiration & biomimetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1088/1748-3190/ab9283
更新日期:2020-07-15 00:00:00
abstract::We have previously suggested a biologically-inspired natural dynamic controller for biped locomotion, which applies torque pulses to the different joints at particular phases of an internal phase variable. The parameters of the controller, including the timing and magnitude of the torque pulses and the dynamics of the...
journal_title:Bioinspiration & biomimetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1088/1748-3190/ab782a
更新日期:2020-03-25 00:00:00
abstract::Unidirectional composites inspired from biological materials such as nacre are composed of stiff platelets arranged in a staggered manner within a soft matrix. Elaborate analyses have been conducted on the aforementioned composites and they are found to have excellent mechanical properties like stiffness, strength and...
journal_title:Bioinspiration & biomimetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1088/1748-3190/aa9945
更新日期:2017-12-22 00:00:00
abstract::Birds demonstrate that flapping-wing flight (FWF) is a versatile flight mode, compatible with hovering, forward flight and gliding to save energy. This extended flight domain would be especially useful on mini-UAVs. However, design is challenging because aerodynamic efficiency is conditioned by complex movements of th...
journal_title:Bioinspiration & biomimetics
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1088/1748-3182/2/4/002
更新日期:2007-12-01 00:00:00