Learning From Nature: Biomimetic Materials and Devices
A special issue of Biomimetics (ISSN 2313-7673).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 August 2026 | Viewed by 13
Special Issue Editors
Interests: micro/nanorobotics; drug delivery; nanomedicine; bio-inspired materials; intelligent controllable systems
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Interests: wearable electronics; biosensors; autonomous devices; flexible materials; energy systems
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Nature represents the ultimate model of efficiency, adaptability, and multifunctionality. Over billions of years, biological systems have evolved optimized structures and mechanisms that seamlessly integrate form and function. Drawing inspiration from these natural paradigms, biomimetic materials and devices have emerged as a transformative frontier in materials science and engineering, offering innovative strategies to address challenges in healthcare, energy, environmental sustainability, and soft electronics.
In this Special Issue, Learning From Nature: Biomimetic Materials and Devices, the aim is to highlight recent advances in the design, synthesis, and application of nature-inspired materials and systems. We welcome contributions that explore how biological principles, such as hierarchical structuring, self-assembly, adaptability, and self-healing, can be translated into synthetic materials and functional devices. Topics of interest include biomimetic surfaces and coatings, adaptive and self-responsive materials, bioinspired mechanical and optical systems, and multifunctional devices for sensing, actuation, and energy conversion.
Moreover, we particularly encourage papers from interdisciplinary studies that bridge materials science, physics, chemistry, and biology to create systems with enhanced performance or new functionalities. By integrating insights from natural design into advanced engineering, this Special Issue seeks to advance the development of intelligent, sustainable, and high-performance materials and devices that redefine the boundaries between the living and the artificial.
Dr. Zhengxing Li
Dr. Shichao Ding
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- biomimetic materials
- bioinspired design
- self-healing systems
- intelligent materials
- functional devices
- adaptive materials
- sustainable engineering
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