Biology doesn't waste energy - That's really smart

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6168, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Vincent, Julian F V ^a   Bogatyreva, Olga ^a   Bogatyrev, Nikolaj ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Analogy; Biomimetics; Energy; Hierarchy; Information; Structure; TRIZ

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; BIOMIMETIC MATERIALS; BIOSENSORS; CONTROL SYSTEMS; ENERGY CONSERVATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING;

ANALOGY; BIOMIMETICS; ENERGY; HIERARCHY; INFORMATION; STRUCTURES; TRIZ;

BIOTECHNOLOGY;

EID: 33745853142     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.682174     Document Type: Conference Paper

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