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Bio‐Inspired Materials – Mining the Old Literature for New Ideas
Author(s) -
Fratzl Peter,
Weiner Steve
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
advanced materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 10.707
H-Index - 527
eISSN - 1521-4095
pISSN - 0935-9648
DOI - 10.1002/adma.201002127
Subject(s) - materials science , nanotechnology , engineering ethics , data science , polymer science , computer science , engineering
Historical scientific books describe a wealth of organisms which could be useful to materials scientists in search of “bio‐inspiration”. Very often these books are not written in English, and are not easy for the materials science community to access. We propose that translating and re‐editing such books or making them available electronically could be of extreme value to present‐day researchers. (Side view of a diatom with a siliceous skeleton drawn by Häckel in 1904, reproduced with permission from Marixverlag GmbH, Wiesbaden.)