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Electroactive Polymers in Industry
Published in Inamuddin, Mohd Imran Ahamed, Rajender Boddula, Adil A. Gobouri, Electroactive Polymeric Materials, 2022
Vivek Mishra, Shubham Pandey, Simran Aggarwal
Biomimetics is an interdisciplinary discipline in which ideas from chemistry, physics, and biology are merged to create materials, devices, and artificial systems that mimic biological processes. Biomimetic designs have potential applications in tissue regeneration, drug delivery, and regenerative medicine (105).
Biomimetic Approaches for the Design and Development of Multifunctional Bioresorbable Layered Scaffolds for Dental Regeneration
Published in Vincenzo Guarino, Marco Antonio Alvarez-Pérez, Current Advances in Oral and Craniofacial Tissue Engineering, 2020
Campodoni Elisabetta, Dozio Samuele Maria, Mulazzi Manuela, Montanari Margherita, Montesi Monica, Panseri Silvia, Sprio Simone, Tampieri Anna, Sandri Monica
In the last 50 years, innovative technologies and materials inspired by nature have been designed, among them biomaterials, that play an exciting role in the field of regenerative medicine where biomimetic has now become a driving concept. Biomimetic in this field means examining the nature, its models, systems, processes and elements to take inspiration and emulate them to solve technological problems for human health. In fact, the close reproduction of the physical-chemical, morphological and mechanical characteristics of the targeted tissues provides biomaterials with the ability to exchange information with cells and trigger the tissue regeneration cascade (Preti et al. 2019).
Cell Membrane-Mimetic Nanoparticles for Cancer Treatment: What Has Been Done So Far?
Published in Hala Gali-Muhtasib, Racha Chouaib, Nanoparticle Drug Delivery Systems for Cancer Treatment, 2020
João Basso, Jessica Silva, Maria Mendes, João Sousa, Alberto Pais, Carla Vitorino
Nanoparticle (NP) drug delivery systems are far from being easily transposable to clinical practice although they are one of the most explored approaches in preclinical research [1]. This is mainly due to biological and technological barriers. As a consequence, biomimetic strategies for drug delivery, including surface modification with small molecules, carbohydrates, peptides and proteins, pathogen-derived particle functionalization or cellular membrane coating, are being explored for several bio-applications [2]. This chapter focuses on the application of cell membrane-coated nanoparticles (CMNPs) to cancer therapy, as they are able to overcome some limitations associated with conventional nanoparticles that are pinpointed as the cause of their frequent unsuccessful outcome [3].
Bio-inspired nanomaterials for biomedical innovation
Published in Science and Technology of Advanced Materials, 2020
Takanori Akagi, Horacio Cabral, Peng Mi
Nature is a source of inspiration for a wide range of areas in science and technology. In the field of materials sciences, learning from biological principles enables researchers to design and develop advanced materials, structures and tools that are capable of meeting demanding requirements. Bio-inspired nanomaterials are emerging as a promising field of research with a high potential for developing unprecedented approaches for managing human diseases. The significance of these materials is vast, ranging from applications in drug delivery and tissue engineering to sensors and diagnosis devices. Thus, innovation through bio-inspired nanomaterials has allowed great progress in biomedical applications with bio-mimetic capabilities, such as robotic nanodevices, organs-on-chips and tissue engineering. Moreover, recent advances in biotechnology have made it possible to directly isolate and engineer nanomaterials from biological sources, including cellular membranes, organelles and exosomes, as well as to combine them with synthetic nano-materials, providing novel features for advancing the biomedical field.
Plants and architecture: the role of biology and biomimetics in materials development for buildings
Published in Intelligent Buildings International, 2019
R. T. Durai Prabhakaran, Morwenna J. Spear, Simon Curling, Peter Wootton-Beard, Philip Jones, Iain Donnison, Graham A. Ormondroyd
Biomimetics utilises the mechanisms and functions of biological science to inspire innovation in diverse fields, including engineering, design, architecture, transportation, agriculture, medicine, and communications (Gruber and Imhof 2017; Portilla-Aguilar et al. 2015; Lepora, Verschure, and Prescott 2013; Elzay, Sofla, and Wadley 2003). The search for biomimetic applications has become a well-established discipline, and is likely to drive a significant shift in modern science (Badarnah and Kadri 2015; Lurie-Luke 2014). From the literature, it is evident that biomimetics has a significant impact in the architectural field leading to a wide range of innovative and sustainable building solutions, which have been well reviewed elsewhere (Pawlyn 2016; Nachtigall and Pohl 2013; Al-Obaidi et al. 2017).
Biomimetics, where are the biologists?
Published in Journal of Engineering Design, 2019
Eliot Graeff, Nicolas Maranzana, Améziane Aoussat
Biomimetics is defined asthe interdisciplinary cooperation of biology and technology or other fields of innovation with the goal of solving practical problems through the function analysis of biological systems, their abstraction into models and the transfer into and application of these models to the solution. (ISO/TC266 2015)Over the past decades, biomimetics has established itself as one of the most promising strategies to support innovative and environment-friendly products (Vincent et al. 2006; Hwang et al. 2015; Bar-Cohen 2006). Many studies have evaluated such processes and shown that they allow a greater novelty of solutions and thus generate a larger amount of innovative products (Keshwani et al. 2017; Ahmed-Kristensen, Christensen, and Lenau 2014).