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Natural History Collections as Inspiration for Technology

Authors
 David W. Green  ;  Jolanta A. Watson  ;  Han‐Sung Jung  ;  Gregory S. Watson 
Citation
 BIOESSAYS, Vol.41(2) : 2 e1700238, 2019 
Journal Title
BIOESSAYS
ISSN
 0265-9247 
Issue Date
2019
Keywords
bioinspiration ; biomaterials ; biomimetics ; genome mining ; natural history ; technology
Abstract
Living organisms are the ultimate survivalists, having evolved phenotypes with unprecedented adaptability, ingenuity, resourcefulness, and versatility compared to human technology. To harness these properties, functional descriptions and design principles from all sources of biodiversity information must be collated - including the hundreds of thousands of possible survival features manifest in natural history museum collections, which represent 12% of total global biodiversity. This requires a consortium of expert biologists from a range of disciplines to convert the observations, data, and hypotheses into the language of engineering. We hope to unite multidisciplinary biologists and natural history museum scientists to maximize the coverage of observations, descriptions, and hypotheses relating to adaptation and function across biodiversity, to make it technologically useful. This is to be achieved by developments in meta- taxonomic classification, phylogenetics, systematics, biological materials research, structure and morphological characterizations, and ecological data gathering from the collections - the aim being to identify and catalogue features essential for good biomimetic design.
Full Text
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/bies.201700238
DOI
10.1002/bies.201700238
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2. College of Dentistry (치과대학) > Dept. of Oral Biology (구강생물학교실) > 1. Journal Papers
Yonsei Authors
David, William Green(데이비드 그린)
Jung, Han Sung(정한성) ORCID logo https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2795-531X
URI
https://ir.ymlib.yonsei.ac.kr/handle/22282913/167462
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