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020			_a9780226014708 (hb.)
082			_a570.15195 _bALL
100			_aAllen, Robert (Editor) _92597
245			_aBulletproof feathers : _bhow science uses nature's secrets to design cutting-edge technology
260			_aChicago _bUniversity Of Chicago Press _c2010
300			_a191p.
520			_a"Though they may sound like the stuff of science fiction, in fact such inventions represent only the most recent iterations of natural mechanisms that are billions of years old - the focus of the rapidly growing field of biomimetics. Based on the realization that natural selection has for countless eons been conducting trial-and-error experiments with the laws of physics, chemistry, material science, and engineering, biomimetics takes nature as its laboratory, looking to the most successful developments and strategies of an array of plants and animals as a source of technological innovation and ideas. Thus the lotus flower, with its waxy, water-resistant surface, gives us stainproofing; the feathers of raptors become transformable airplane wings; and the nerve-deadening serrations on a mosquito's proboscis are adapted to hypodermics."--Publisher description
650			_aRobotics _9941
650			_aBiomimetics _92598
942			_cBK
999			_c8145 _d8145