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  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,244 Views
13 Pages

To address the problem that the black coating for spacecraft optical stealth easily falls off, this study constructs a light-absorbing spacecraft surface based on a micro/nanostructure through imitating a natural light-trapping structure. In this pap...

(This article belongs to the Section Aeronautics)
  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,150 Views
39 Pages

Recent Advances in Biomimetic Related Lubrication

  • Jinqiang Shao,
  • Guiyao Lan,
  • Haoxin Song,
  • Xiaoxiao Dong and
  • Ming Li

30 October 2024

Friction is ubiquitous in industry and daily life, which not only leads to the wear and tear of equipment and machinery, but also causes a lot of energy waste. Friction is one of the significant factors leading to energy loss in mechanical systems. T...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,043 Views
10 Pages

Flexible PDMS-Based SERS Substrates Replicated from Beetle Wings for Water Pollutant Detection

  • Chen-Hsin Lu,
  • Ming-Ren Cheng,
  • Sheng Chen,
  • Wei-Lin Syu and ,
  • Ming-Yen Chien,
  • Kuan-Syun Wang,
  • Jeng-Shiung Chen,
  • Po-Han Lee and
  • Ting-Yu Liu
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

30 December 2022

The flexible surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) sensor, which has the bionic 3D nanoarray structure of a beetle-wing substrate (BWS), was successfully prepared by replicated technology and thermal evaporation. The bionic structure was replicate...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Polymer Nanocomposites II)
  • Review
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,549 Views
46 Pages

Hydrophobic and Tribological Properties of Biomimetic Interfaces

  • Kang Yang,
  • Jun Tang,
  • Jia Huang,
  • Honglei Zhang and ,
  • Hao Chen,
  • Yahui Xiong,
  • Ruili Wang,
  • Chao Wu,
  • Meimei Wang and
  • Hongliang Chen
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

24 April 2024

Bionic interfaces have received much attention owing to their attractive hydrophobic and tribological potential. Although a great deal of research has been carried out on biomimetic nanostructures, the basic theory, experimental application, and rela...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,042 Views
17 Pages

Mechanism of Synergistic Corrosion and Radiation Protection of Hexamethylenetetramine and Benzotriazole for Bionic Superhydrophobic Coating on Q235 Steel

  • Jingyu Shang,
  • Yongfeng Jiang,
  • Bo Yan,
  • Baidi Shi and ,
  • Bingyan Chen,
  • Yefeng Bao and
  • Ke Yang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

27 December 2024

Bionic superhydrophobic coatings were prepared on Q235 steel substrates by combining hexamethylenetetramine (HMTA) and benzotriazole (BTA) with methyltrimethoxysilane (MTMS), nano-silica, zinc oxide, and polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS). Three-dimensional...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,252 Views
10 Pages

Periodic Microstructures Fabricated by Laser Interference with Subsequent Etching

  • Shuang-Ning Yang,
  • Xue-Qing Liu,
  • Jia-Xin Zheng,
  • Yi-Ming Lu and
  • Bing-Rong Gao

Periodic nanostructures have wide applications in micro-optics, bionics, and optoelectronics. Here, a laser interference with subsequent etching technology is proposed to fabricate uniform periodic nanostructures with controllable morphologies and sm...

(This article belongs to the Section Synthesis, Interfaces and Nanostructures)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,026 Views
12 Pages

Fabrication and Performance of Graphene Flexible Pressure Sensor with Micro/Nano Structure

  • Weibin Wu,
  • Chongyang Han,
  • Rongxuan Liang,
  • Jian Xu and ,
  • Bin Li,
  • Junwei Hou,
  • Ting Tang,
  • Zhiheng Zeng and
  • Jie Li
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

23 October 2021

Laser-induced graphene (LIG) has been widely used in flexible sensors due to its excellent mechanical properties and high conductivity. In this paper, a flexible pressure sensor prepared by bionic micro/nanostructure design and LIG mass fraction regu...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,078 Views
18 Pages

11 December 2025

The microstructures of living creatures are widely used in bionics, and some can generate structural colors on biological surfaces and enable the process of dynamic camouflage. This study presents the hydrogel photoresist synthesized by polymerizing...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Bionic Engineering Materials and Structural Design)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,798 Views
12 Pages

Electrophoretic Deposition of Graphene Oxide on Laser-Ablated Copper Mesh for Enhanced Oil/Water Separation

  • Rui Zhou,
  • Fei Shen,
  • Jingqin Cui,
  • Yonggang Zhang and ,
  • Huangping Yan and
  • Segovia Sanchez Juan Carlos
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

28 February 2019

The fabrication of bionic surfaces resembling hydrophobic plants through micro manufacturing, which creates abundant multi-level micro/nanostructures and elemental variations, has been widely employed to change the surface wettability of metallic mat...

  • Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,829 Views
24 Pages

Recent Advances in Flexible Resistive Random Access Memory

  • Peng Tang,
  • Junlong Chen,
  • Tian Qiu,
  • Honglong Ning and ,
  • Xiao Fu,
  • Muyun Li,
  • Zuohui Xu,
  • Dongxiang Luo,
  • Rihui Yao and
  • Junbiao Peng
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

21 September 2022

Flexible electronic devices have received great attention in the fields of foldable electronic devices, wearable electronic devices, displays, actuators, synaptic bionics and so on. Among them, high-performance flexible memory for information storage...

(This article belongs to the Section Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,582 Views
9 Pages

Laser Fabrication of Titanium Alloy-Based Photothermal Responsive Slippery Surface

  • Jian Yi,
  • Hao Zhou,
  • Xingchen Han,
  • Jiangwei Mao and
  • Yonglai Zhang

9 January 2022

In recent years, biomimetic materials inspired from natural organisms have attracted great attention due to their promising functionalities and cutting-edge applications, emerging as an important research topic. For example, how to reduce the reflect...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Laser Micro/Nano Machining Technology)
  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,640 Views
17 Pages

12 August 2024

This paper comprehensively discusses the fabrication of bionic-based ultrafast laser micro–nano-multiscale surface structures and their performance analysis. It explores the functionality of biological surface structures and the high adaptabili...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Insight into Design and Properties of Nanomaterials (Second Edition))
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
8,660 Views
15 Pages

Nanocarbon-Coated Porous Anodic Alumina for Bionic Devices

  • Morteza Aramesh,
  • Wei Tong,
  • Kate Fox,
  • Ann Turnley and ,
  • Dong Han Seo,
  • Steven Prawer and
  • Kostya (Ken) Ostrikov
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

5 August 2015

A highly-stable and biocompatible nanoporous electrode is demonstrated herein. The electrode is based on a porous anodic alumina which is conformally coated with an ultra-thin layer of diamond-like carbon. The nanocarbon coating plays an essential r...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Functional Materials for Bio-Sensing, Bio-Imaging, and Controlled Release)
  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,994 Views
12 Pages

In Vivo Antibacterial Efficacy of Nanopatterns on Titanium Implant Surface: A Systematic Review of the Literature

  • Yang Sun,
  • Yang Yang,
  • Weibo Jiang,
  • Haotian Bai and ,
  • He Liu and
  • Jincheng Wang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

14 December 2021

Background: Bionic surface nanopatterns of titanium (Ti) materials have excellent antibacterial effects in vitro for infection prevention. To date, there is a lack of knowledge about the in vivo bactericidal outcomes of the nanostructures on the Ti i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Antimicrobial Activity of Medical Materials)
  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,292 Views
22 Pages

Nanotherapeutics for Meningitis: Enhancing Drug Delivery Across the Blood-Brain Barrier

  • Hitaishi Sharma,
  • Kannan Badri Narayanan,
  • Shampa Ghosh,
  • Krishna Kumar Singh and ,
  • Prarthana Rehan,
  • Aparajita Dasgupta Amist,
  • Rakesh Bhaskar and
  • Jitendra Kumar Sinha
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

Meningitis is the acute or chronic inflammation of the protective membranes, surrounding the brain and spinal cord, and this inflammatory process spreads throughout the subarachnoid space. The traditional drug delivery methods pose a disadvantage in...