A couple of weeks ago I introduced the theme electricity. For this week’s, I will look at the topic from an engineer’s point of view and evaluate the topic in a top down approach. Despite many positive signs, there are still key challenges that must be tackled to boost renewable electricity production and reduce our...
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Autumn is here – winter is approaching – it’s time to visit some museums! Today we have a special recommendation for you – a ‚must-see‘ for everyone interested in Biomimetics and living in southern Germany. Last week, the special exhibition ‚baubionik – biologie beflügelt architektur‘ was opened in the museum ‚Schloss Rosenstein‘ in Stuttgart...
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Welcome back readers. Hope all of you had a great summer vacation. We start with a new theme ‘Electricity’. We humans are very familiar with the term electricity, because we are surrounded by it. Electricity is powering most of our technology from our cell phones, computers, lights, soldering irons, and so on to basic amenities...
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Dear followers! Welcome back – we hope you had a relaxing holiday and are now ready to start in the new school year, semester or get back to work! We are starting again this week with new theme sessions and articles – our first one will be ELECTRICITY. Are you interested in contributing...
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… and BlogIONIK is on vacation. Thanks a lot to all of you for following us throughout another year. We hope we can still fascinate you with our articles and stories. What do you think about our new concept of topical collections? To get in the summer mood, maybe it’s time to (re)read some...
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Dear readers. Before we start our summer break, we’d like to write a short update on our successful article series ‚Where to study Biomimetics in Europe‘. In case you have not yet read the first two parts, here are the links to Part 1 and Part 2. We have the feeling, our series is a...
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After learning about how the plant kingdom keeps salt out and how fish deal with high salt concentrations, I would like to discuss how it affects us humans. All throughout the history the availability of salt has been important to civilization. As a matter of fact the word salary come from the Latin word for...
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The topic of energy storage is more up-to-date than ever. Electric mobility solutions are in need of high-capacity batteries to operate over large distances. The demand for renewable energy sources like wind or solar energy is growing – but those resources are not continuously available. Practical solutions to store energy, available during storms or sunshine...
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Dear readers, we are starting a new theme session, which will be dedicated to “energy storage”. Our focus will be on presenting different strategies in living organisms that nature developed in order to store energy. Types of energy, their purpose and working mechanisms are topics you can expect to read about in the next weeks, based...
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While perhaps far from mainstream science, biological surfaces have received a lot of attention in recent decades, especially by the biomimetic community. In fact, many studies surrounding surfaces have become the prime examples of Bionics/Biomimetics, such as the self-cleaning lotus leaves, the super adhesive gecko pads, etc. In this post, I will be focusing on the...
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