… 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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Many people fear spiders, because they have the reputation of being aggressive animals, only waiting for a chance to kill you. This is of course not true and on the contrary, once you start observing spiders you’ll find they have many fascinating qualities. Especially their highly adaptive silk with one of the toughest fibers not...
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Dear readers, I have an important, more personal topic this week: The actual status of Biomimetics/Biomimicry in Austria. As most of you know, we – the writers of Blogionik, all studied at CUAS Villach. In the last weeks I got some mails, calls and discussions concerning the current state of the course itself. Some of...
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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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After learning how fish are dealing with high salt concentrations (and especially with changing salt concentrations), I would like to continue with a similar topic this week – but in the plant kingdom. How do plants filter salt out of the water? In particular, I will focus on mangroves – plants which are actually growing...
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What happens to a watermelon, if you throw it the sea? Try to answer this question already now based on your knowledge about physical laws or just make a pure guess. If you are not sure, keep this question in mind while reading the article and you might get a better understanding of the principle...
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Dear readers, It is time for me, again, to give you an introduction to one of our theme session. In the following weeks, you can read articles about salt. To take a look at our previous theme session just click here. The basic Definition of Salts When we talk about salt, we usually think of...
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Dear readers, After some eventful weeks, I am back with a short but new article. So, what happened? I am planning to found my own company and had some interviews and presentations during my application for a specific funding. Besides that, in the week from 15. to 19. May, I participated again in the “International...
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As already mentioned in our introduction article about energy storage, the topic of this article will be elastic energy storage. There are many examples of how different animal species use this kind of energy for running, walking or hopping (kangaroos, flees, click beetles, etc.) by using tendons. For them, elastic mechanisms have a great influence...
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