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Biomimetics, Volume 8, Issue 4

August 2023 - 52 articles

Cover Story: For nearly a century, fluoride has dominated dental products as an active ingredient but there is overwhelming evidence that other formulations work to improve oral health by reversing early dental decay, improving gum health, reducing tooth sensitivity and dental erosion, and safely whitening teeth. This review focuses on fluoride-free toothpastes containing biomimetic calcium phosphate-based molecules as the primary active ingredients. These include hydroxyapatite (HAP), casein phosphopeptide-amorphous calcium phosphate (CPP-ACP), calcium sodium phosphosilicate (CSPS, Bioglass or Novamin), β-tricalcium phosphate (β-TCP), and calcium glycerophosphate (CaGP). To date, 150 clinical trials on human subjects have shown the efficacy of calcium phosphates in biomimetic oral care. View this paper
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Articles (52)

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,418 Views
27 Pages

Dynamic objects bring about a large number of error accumulations in pose estimation of mobile robots in dynamic scenes, and result in the failure to build a map that is consistent with the surrounding environment. Along these lines, this paper prese...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
2,919 Views
22 Pages

A Novel Heteromorphous Convolutional Neural Network for Automated Assessment of Tumors in Colon and Lung Histopathology Images

  • Saeed Iqbal,
  • Adnan N. Qureshi,
  • Musaed Alhussein,
  • Khursheed Aurangzeb and
  • Seifedine Kadry

The automated assessment of tumors in medical image analysis encounters challenges due to the resemblance of colon and lung tumors to non-mitotic nuclei and their heteromorphic characteristics. An accurate assessment of tumor nuclei presence is cruci...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,468 Views
15 Pages

Objective: The objective of this study was to investigate the use of the nanocapsule sequential delivery of BMP-2 and SDF-1α through the peripheral circulatory system to promote the healing of osteoporotic fractures. Methods: Based on increased...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,567 Views
15 Pages

The rapid progress of artificial neural networks (ANN) is largely attributed to the development of the rectified linear unit (ReLU) activation function. However, the implementation of software-based ANNs, such as convolutional neural networks (CNN),...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,566 Views
13 Pages

Sound Reception in the Yangtze Finless Porpoise and Its Extension to a Biomimetic Receptor

  • Zhongchang Song,
  • Wenzhan Ou,
  • Jiao Li,
  • Chuang Zhang,
  • Weijie Fu,
  • Wenjie Xiang,
  • Ding Wang,
  • Kexiong Wang and
  • Yu Zhang

Sound reception was investigated in the Yangtze finless porpoise (Neophocaena phocaenoides asiaeorientalis) at its most sensitive frequency. The computed tomography scanning, sound speed, and density results were used to develop a three-dimensional n...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,087 Views
18 Pages

The lack of intuitive controllability remains a primary challenge in enabling transhumeral amputees to control a prosthesis for arm reaching with residual limb kinematics. Recent advancements in prosthetic arm control have focused on leveraging the p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,488 Views
9 Pages

The reaction condition for purifying carbonic anhydrase from Sulfurihydrogenibium yellowstonense (SspCA) by direct heating without prior cell lysis was optimized; heating at 70 °C for 5 min resulted in the highest total activity of 23,460 WAU (Wi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,256 Views
12 Pages

Bridging Locomotion and Manipulation Using Reconfigurable Robotic Limbs via Reinforcement Learning

  • Haoran Sun,
  • Linhan Yang,
  • Yuping Gu,
  • Jia Pan,
  • Fang Wan and
  • Chaoyang Song

Locomotion and manipulation are two essential skills in robotics but are often divided or decoupled into two separate problems. It is widely accepted that the topological duality between multi-legged locomotion and multi-fingered manipulation shares...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,725 Views
13 Pages

Biomaterials such as chitosan and simvastatin (Sim) have been introduced to accelerate the extensive and multicellular biological process of bone healing. The aim of this study was to evaluate the bone healing potential of chitosan and Sim, alone or...

  • Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,291 Views
25 Pages

Revisiting Nature’s “Unifying Patterns”: A Biological Appraisal

  • Guillaume Lecointre,
  • Annabelle Aish,
  • Nadia Améziane,
  • Tarik Chekchak,
  • Christophe Goupil,
  • Philippe Grandcolas,
  • Julian F. V. Vincent and
  • Jian-Sheng Sun

Effective bioinspiration requires dialogue between designers and biologists, and this dialogue must be rooted in a shared scientific understanding of living systems. To support learning from “nature’s overarching design lessons” the...

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