Bridging the Gap: From Biomechanics and Functional Morphology of Plants to Biomimetic Developments

Speck, Olga; Speck, Thomas

doi:10.3390/biomimetics6040060

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“…These are extensively reviewed in some recent publications [10,11]. Efforts in biomimetic developments are also underway in drawing inspiration from biological concepts toward developing life-like motile systems, embedding automation, such as the following: a façade shading system inspired by the bird-of-paradise flower; a façade shading system inspired by the motion of the underwater snap trap of the waterwheel plant; a cellular actuator-kinetic amplification triggered by plant-inspired motor cells; the Venus flytrap as concept generator for plant-inspired soft robots; and weather-responsive building skins with autonomous actuation, inspired by the hygroscopic movement of pine-cone scales [25,73].…”

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Emerging Perspectives on Diverse Nature-Oriented Sustainability Strategies

Tiwary,

Brown

2024

Sustainability

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Increasing levels of nature-oriented sustainability strategies (NOSSs) are being recognized as offering solutions to combat climate change at scale, both through transformative infrastructure and autonomous technology innovations. This paper presents a synopsis of the mainstream literature covering the emerging trends from the last two decades across two broad trajectories of NOSS initiatives—“nature-inspired” (NI)- and “nature-based solution” (NBS)-oriented approaches. The specific scopes of these two approaches have been categorized into disciplinary fields, highlighting their peculiarities and commonalities, followed by an appreciation of their evolutionary trends based on the literature abundance over three distinct time-horizons—pre 2000, 2000–10, and 2011–2021. We find ambitious levels of sustainability-led developments are driving NOSS initiatives beyond 2010; in particular, the increased level of NI approaches in the field of chemical processing, material structure, and renewable energy. Likewise, there has been rapid growth in NBS approaches in the last decade from a systems perspective, reducing the level of grey infrastructure by offering sustainable alternatives to the ecologically destructive technologies. However, we identify some crucial red herrings to the main-streaming of NOSSs as a ‘true sustainability solution’, such as the inherent challenges in their scaling-up, operation and management, and in ensuring ecologically and culturally adaptive interventions across different global contexts.

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