Published in Journal of Bionic Engineering
This paper describes the bioinspiration process to derive design concepts for new deep foundation systems that have greater axial capacity per unit volume of pile material compared to conventional deep foundations. The study led to bioinspired ideas that provide greater load capacity by increasing the pile shaft resistance. The bioinspiration appro...
Published in Journal of Bionic Engineering
The title was incorrect in the published paper and should be revised as “Facile Fabrication of Biomimetic Water Pinning Microstructures on Polyethylene Surfaces with Robust Superhydrophobic Wetting State”.
Published in Journal of Bionic Engineering
Super-hydrophobic surfaces are quite common in nature, inspiring people to continually explore its water-repellence property and applications to our lives. It has been generally agreed that the property of super-hydrophobicity is mainly contributed by the microscale or nanoscale (or even smaller) architecture on the surface. Besides, there is an en...
Published in Journal of Bionic Engineering
Research into evaporating droplets on patterned surfaces has grown exponentially, since the capacity to control droplet morphology has proven to have significant technological utility in emerging areas of fundamental research and industrial applications. Here, we incorporate two interest domains — complex wetting patterns of droplets on structured ...
Published in Journal of Bionic Engineering
Published in Journal of Bionic Engineering
In the present study, we investigated the evaporation process and deposition pattern of saline droplet on a copper substrate with different roughness under 40 °C ambient temperature. These four substrates are classified as smooth surface and rough surface based on their droplet contact angles. It has been found in this study that the evaporation pa...
Published in Journal of Bionic Engineering
The coffee ring effect commonly exists in droplet deposition patterns, which fundamentally affects scientific research and industrial applications, like pharmaceutical purification, salt manufacturing, etc. Some researchers have tried different solutions to control the distributions of droplet deposition patterns, but most control deposits by adjus...
Published in Journal of Bionic Engineering
Discoveries in geckos locomotion have advanced the bio-inspired robotics. However, the gecko-inspired robots still lag behind animals in attachments and maneuvers due to our failure to understand and implement gecko bionics thoroughly. Here, we studied the toe deployments that facilitate the upside-down motion of geckos by focusing on the direction...
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Tissue engineered skeletal muscle is expected to treat muscle defects caused by trauma and disease. However, designing and manufacturing thick and complex tissue engineered skeletal muscle requires vascularization to ensure its internal cell viability and nutrient supply in vitro. In this article, we developed a set of Direct-Writing (DW) bio-print...
Published in Journal of Bionic Engineering
When humans jump down from a high position, there is a risk of serious injury to the lower limbs. However, cats can jump down from the same heights without any injury because of their excellent ability to attenuate impact forces. The present study aims to investigate the macro/micro biomechanical features of paw pads and limb bones of cats, and the...
