Mechanical Bionic and Bio-Inspired Interface Materials

Dear Colleagues,

We would like to invite you to submit your work to this Special Issue on "Mechanical Bionic and Bio-Inspired Interface Materials". After millions of years of evolution and optimization, creatures in nature have gradually formed functional characteristics that are highly adapted to their living environment. After bionics became a subject in the 1960s, scientists in the field began to study biological functions and mechanisms from the perspective of bionics. Along with the technological development in manufacturing, materials, information, and artificial intelligence, it is becoming possible for humans to manufacture more sophisticated bionic products, such as bionic intelligent devices and equipment, electric and bionic health systems, multistage manufacturing of organisms, etc. Among them, mechanical bionic and bio-inspired interface materials have gradually become the most advanced and hot topic in the field of engineering bionics. The scope of this Special Issue on bioinspired materials mainly focuses on the latest research advances and frontiers of mechanical bionic technology, bio-inspired interface materials, bionic surface coatings, additive manufacturing, bionic design, and bio-inspired sensors, which have strong engineering application prospects.

In particular, the topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Mechanical Bionic Technology.
• Bio-inspired Interface Materials.
• Bionic Surface Coatings.
• Additive Manufacturing.
• Bionic Design.
• Bio-Inspired Sensors.
• Bionic Technology in Agricultural Machinery.
• Bionic Principle.
• Bionic Design.

Prof. Dr. Shichao Niu
Dr. Jiale Zhao
Guest Editors

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