Biomimetics: Bio-inspired Engineeringof Human Tissue Scaffolding forRegenerative Medicine

摘要

Nature can inform us in many incisive ways on how to build structures, designarchitectures and fabricate material's with exemplary high performance usingminimal energy and substances optimized for many functions. A study ofnatural engineering structures has provided approaches for generating uniquescaffolds for use in regenerative medicine with the potential to outperformconventional advanced man-made functional materials. Biomimicry research, inessence, involves abstracting good design from nature [1]. This knowledgetransfer is often empirical. However, there is now a more systematic method ofacquiring such information using the TRIZ method of problem solving [2]. Theway natural systems allocate energy for different functions can instruct us onhow to best optimize the design of materials and structure with minimum energyand with molecular level control.