Bioinspiration & Biomimetics

期刊简介：Bioinspiration & Biomimetics publishes research involving the study and distillation of principles and functions found in biological systems that have been developed through evolution, and application of this knowledge to produce novel and exciting basic technologies and new approaches to solving scientific problems. It provides a forum for interdisciplinary research which acts as a pipeline, facilitating the two-way flow of ideas and understanding between the extensive bodies of knowledge of the different disciplines. It has two principal aims: to draw on biology to enrich engineering and to draw from engineering to enrich biology.The journal aims to include input from across all intersecting areas of both fields. In biology, this would include work in all fields from physiology to ecology, with either zoological or botanical focus. In engineering, this would include both design and practical application of biomimetic or bioinspired devices and systems. Typical areas of interest include:Systems, designs and structureCommunication and navigationCooperative behaviourSelf-organizing biological systemsSelf-healing and self-assemblyAerial locomotion and aerospace applications of biomimeticsBiomorphic surface and subsurface systemsMarine dynamics: swimming and underwater dynamicsApplications of novel materialsBiomechanics; including movement, locomotion, fluidicsCellular behaviourSensors and sensesBiomimetic or bioinformed approaches to geological exploration.

【译文】生物灵感和仿生学发表涉及研究生物系统中通过进化发展出来的原理和功能的研究，并将这些知识应用于产生新颖和令人兴奋的基本技术和解决科学问题的新的方法。它提供了一个跨学科研究的论坛，作为思想和理解的双向流动的渠道，促进不同学科广泛知识体系的交流。该期刊有两个主要目标：利用生物学丰富工程学，从工程学中汲取生物学。期刊旨在涵盖两个领域的所有交叉领域的输入。在生物学中，这包括从生理学到生态学的所有领域的工作，具有动物学或植物学的重点。在工程学中，这包括仿生或生物启发装置和系统的设计和实际应用。典型的兴趣领域包括：系统、设计和结构、通信和导航、合作行为、自组织生物系统、自修复和自组装、空中运动和仿生航空航天应用、生物形态表面和地下系统、海洋动力学：游泳和水下动力学、新型材料的应用、生物力学；包括运动、运动、流体力学、细胞行为、传感器和感官、仿生或生物信息地质勘探方法。