1st Edition
Bioinspired Materials and Metamaterials A New Look at the Materials Science
By Edward Bormashenko
Copyright 2025
198 Pages
96 B/W Illustrations
by
CRC Press
198 Pages
96 B/W Illustrations
by
CRC Press
198 Pages
96 B/W Illustrations
by
CRC Press
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Development of bioinspired materials and metamaterials has changed the philosophy of materials engineering and opened new technological possibilities, as they demonstrate properties that are not found in naturally occurring materials. This book examines advances in these emerging materials classes and investigates how their tailor-engineered properties, such as specific surface energy or... Read more
1. Bioinspired Materials: Introduction to Main Physical Notions — Surface Tension and Viscosity.
2. Wetting of Real Surfaces — Lotus Effect.
3. The Rose Petal Effect.
4. Salvinia Effect.
5. Shark Skin Effect.
6. Gecko-Effect and Novel Adhesives.
7. Waves.
8. Refraction Index and Its Origin.
9. Electromagnetic Metamaterials, Negative Refractive Index Materials.
10. The Effect of Negative Mass and Negative Density: Acoustic Metamaterials.
Biography
Edward Bormashenko is a Professor of Materials Science and the Head of the Laboratory of Interface Science at Ariel University in Israel.
