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Abstract
Biomimicry is the study of nature to emulate or be inspired by its designs or principles to solve human problems. Proponents of biomimetic, the study of nature’s models to imitate or take inspiration from its designs and processes to solve human problems, argue that 3.85 billion years of evolution has honed designs of our natural environment and its inhabitants by necessity to allow for survival, thus we are surrounded by a world of ingeniously designed natural organisms.The emerging field of biomimicry has given rise to new technologies created from biologically inspired engineering at both the macro scale and nanoscale levels. Biomimetics is not a new idea. Humans have been looking at nature for answers to both complex and simple problems throughout our existence. Nature has solved many of today’s engineering problems such as, wind resistance, self-assembly, and harnessing solar energy through the evolutionary mechanics of selective advantages.This research investigates the distinction between intelligent material systems and intelligent structures inspired by nature which is only be applied superficially in terms of the scale of a material’s microstructure which governs its behavior, regardless of its size. However, such distinction between structure and material has been repeatedly emphasized because the mechanical behavior of a structure can be understood only when its geometry and the material properties of its constituent solids or fluids are considered together.