New Trends in Biomimetics for Life-Sciences
A special issue of Symmetry (ISSN 2073-8994). This special issue belongs to the section "Life Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2026 | Viewed by 847
Special Issue Editors
Interests: composites; polymerization; biomaterial science; sintering; polymers; biomaterials; materials; materials engineering; nanocomposites; material characterization
Interests: functional materials; graphene; nanocomposites; polymer-embedded nanostructures
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Dear Colleagues,
The physical world, where human existence takes place, has a partially natural and partially artificial origin; consequently, it could be imagined as the interpenetration region between these two worlds. The natural world (e.g., living organisms) self-generated according to the evolution law, unlike the artificial world, which is the product of the human intelligence. Physical problems and related solutions (found by man or in nature) are present both in the artificial and natural worlds. Nature has spent millions of years optimally solving living creatures’ existential problems, and, therefore, it is useful to use natural solutions for artificial-world problems. Many modern technologies can have symmetric problems (i.e., be analogous with respect to something) in nature that have already been solved by evolution. The biomimetic approach exploits the solutions that nature has found over millions of years to solve those ‘symmetric’ problems found in modern technologies. The symmetric element that creates a bridge between the natural and artificial cases is the problem type. Although referring to different contexts, symmetric problems have a similar solution. For example, in the field of life-sciences, a natural tool named ‘stinger’ is used by bees to inject a toxin into the body of a threatening living species. With respect to the medical problem of injecting a drug into the skin, a symmetric solution can be to fabricate a hollow–sharp–rigid object, which is similar to a sting. Steel needles represent the solution of the symmetric problem in an artificial context. Many other biomimetical examples can be found in the field of life-sciences; however, biomimetics is a universal approach that can be adopted in all technologies. Biomimetics produces a concept of ‘fundamental knowledge’ that is successively transformed in concrete technological innovations (e.g., microneedle patches). The purpose of this Special Issue is to collect contributions of biomimetic types from scholars involved in the field of life-sciences research/innovation.
Prof. Dr. Luigi Nicolais
Dr. Gianfranco Carotenuto
Dr. Aniello Cammarano
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- biomimetics
- life-sciences
- microneedle patches
- functional biomaterials
- biomedical nanomaterials
- bio-inspired sensors
- sustainable devices
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