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Functional Bionics/Biomimetics Contents Forum on the Development of Bionic Engineering .................................................... 1 A Research and Innovation Frontier for Bio-inspired Technologies .........................................................................................................................................................Shih Chi Liu 1 Biomimetics – research and innovative development to turn scientific knowledge into beneficial practice ...........................................................................................................................................Rainer W. Erb 2 Biomimetics: Challenges, Development and Opportunities ................................................................................................................................................Ille C. Gebeshuber 6 Plenaries ......................................................................................................................... 7 Biomimetic superhydrophobic surfaces and their application: Lotus- and Salvinia-Effect .................................................................................................................................................Wilhelm Barthlott 7 Biomimetics on gecko locomotion: Behaviour, reaction forces and Bio-inspired wall-climbing robots Zhendong Dai, Zhouyi Wang, Aihong Ji, Xing Qiang, Longbao Han, Jintong Wang, Qiang Wu, Wenhua Gu, ............................................................................................................................................Jiurong Sun,Dai Liming 8 Biomimetics: Lessons from Nature ................................................................................................................Bharat Bhushan, Howard D. Winbigler 9 Mimicking Bone Structure and Function with Structural Composite Materials .......................................................................................A.J. Parsons, I. Ahmed, N. Han, R. Felfel, C.D. Rudd 10 Keynotes ....................................................................................................................... 11 Analysis of multivariate coupling mechanism of Lepidoptera insect wings’ surface superhydrophobicity .......................................................................................................Qian Cong 11 Anti-erosion Function in Animals and its Biomimetic Application ..........................................................Zhiwu Han, Junqiu Zhang, Chao Ge, You Lv, Jialian Jiang, Luquan Ren 12 Biomimetic Microsystems in Living Cell Studies ..........................................................................................................................................................Pasi Kallio 13 Biomimetic Marine Propulsion ...................................................................................................................................................... Daniel Weihs 14 Bionic inspired fibres based materials .................................................................................................................. Thomas Stegmaier, Heinrich Planck 15 Bionics for Mechatronic Applications ...................................................................................................................................................... Carlo Menon 16 Control of Nonlinear Dynamic Systems Using Biologically Inspired Inexpensive Memory-Based Approach ..................................................................................................Y. D. Song, Wenchuan Cai 17 Forced impalement of liquids by drop impacts on surfaces madehydrophobic by a biomimetic process ...... Alain Merlen, Philippe Brunet, Farzam Zoueshtiagh, Vincent Thomy, Florian Lapierre, and Yannick ..................................................................................................................................................................Coffinier 18 1 Nanoparticle-Coated Microtubes for the Manipulation of Cancer Cells .................................................................................................................................................Michael R. King 19 Nature as a library of materials, structures, principles and laws with potential biomimetic application in bioengineering and medicine .........................................................................Mihai Chirita 20 Negotiating Complex Terrain: What Must We Understand to Develop Truly Animal-like Robots? ................................................................................................................................................ Roy E. Ritzmann 21 On The Formation of Regular Patterns from Drying Droplets and their Potential Use for Bio-medical Applications ....................................................................................................... Khellil Sefiane 23 Recent advancement in mimicking and controlling a beetle, Allomyrina Dichotoma ...........................................................................Q.V. Nguyen, T.V. Truong, H.C. Park, N.S. Goo and D. Byun 24 Soil Adhesion, Friction and Bionics ................................................................................................................................................ Vilas M. Salokhe 25 Structural biological materials: Fascinating insights into the structure of life ..............................................................................................................................................Joanna McKittrick 26 Wetting behaviours of a single droplet on biomimetic micro structured surfaces ..............................................................................................................................................................Y.Y. Yan 27 Bio-Inspired, Smart, Multiscale Interfacial Materials .............................................................................................................................................................Lei Jiang 28 Wettability Distribution Effects on Water Flooding Problems in a PEM Fuel Cell .........................................................................................................................................................Ping Cheng 30 Session1: Functional Bionics/Biomimetics ................................................................ 31 A Novel Method for 3D-Segmentation of Vascular Images .................................................................................................Bingyin Ren,Yongbo Zhang, Daniel X.B. Chen 31 Bionic Design of the Surface Morphology of Rubber BushCovered on Driving Drums ..................................................................................................................Linjing Xiao, Xijing Wang, Quan Li 32 Effects of Egg White Protein on Calcium Carbonate Crystalline ................................................................................................................................Wenkun Zhu, Xuegang Luo 33 Helicoidal Round-Hole Fiber Distribution of Tumble Elytra and Extrusion Strength of Biomimetically Holed Composite ..........................................................B. Chen, J. Luo, X. Peng, Q. Yuan 34 Primary Research on Bionic Design of Multi-Surface Solar Concentrator Based on the Flower Structure ...................................................................................Xiaodi Xue, Hongfei Zheng, Tao Tao, Guo Xie 35 Study on the Shrinkage Error of Similar Material by Simulation Experiment ............................................................................................................Zhaojiang Zhang, Yuling Zhao, Kan Wu 36 Development of a Distribution System for Measuring Nozzle Integrative Parameters ..............................................................................................Xinyu Xue, Jian Liang, Pingzeng Liu, Yubin Lan 37 Influence of the Optical Multi-Film Thickness on the Saturation of the Structural Color Displayed ........................................................................................................... Xi Li, Yi Liu, Jiawen Li, Wenhao Huang 38 Light Harvesting Mechanism of Photosystem II in Photosynthesis and Its Inspiration for 2 Photoinitiators ...................................................Zhang Tong, Wenjian Wu, Biru Hu, Yahui Man, Zhiming Liu 39 A Finite Element Modeling of a Beetle Wing ................................................................................................. Tailie Jin, Nam Seo Goo and Hoon Cheol Park 40 A New Face Detection Method in Colour Images Using Skin Colour Model and Eye Detection Method ..........................................................................................Xu Zhang, Shujun Zhang and Kevin Hapeshi 41 A Preliminary Study of the Structure and Architecture of Walnut Shell ....................................................................... Mohammad Yazdi, Mohammad A. Khalili, Mahmoud Golabchi 42 A Study of the Velocity Field during Evaporation of Sessile Water and Water/Ethanol Drops ................................................................................................John R.E. Christy, Khellil Sefiane, Euan Munro 43 Evaluation of Cardiovascular Stress Reaction Using Hpcd Method on a Beat-By-Beat Basis ........ Mitsuhiro Ogawa, Masamichi Nogawa, Takehiro Yamakoshi, Shinobu Tanaka and Ken-Ichi Yamakoshi 44 The Techniques of Reducing Adhesion and Scouring Soil by Bionic – Review of Literature ......................................................................................Muhammad Azam Khan, Rashid Qaisrani,
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