Remarkable Natural Material Surfaces and Their Engineering Potential

This book explores a collection of natural surfaces, their scientific characteristics and their unique engineering potential - demonstrating that engineering applications can be found in unexpected places. The surfaces covered range from botanical ones, like rice and lotus leaves, to insect surfaces, like butterfly and dragonfly wings. The variety of surfaces and numerous engineering potentials described show how biomimicry can be utilized to solve countless real‐world problems.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Springer
Published: 02/18/2014
ISBN: 9783319031248
Pages: 163
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.44d

Review Citations: Choice 01/01/2015 pg. 840