Bioinspired Devices: Emulating Nature’s Assembly and Repair Process

✍ Scribed by Eugene C. Goldfield

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 480
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Eugene Goldfield lays out principles of engineering found in the natural world, with a focus on how components of coordinated structures organize themselves into autonomous functional systems. This self-organizing capacity is one of many qualities which can be harnessed to design technologies that can interact seamlessly with human bodies.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Preface
Part I. Biological Inspiration for Nature’s Building and Repair Process
Bioinspired Devices as Parts of Complex Systems
How Nature Builds: Physical Law, Morphogenesis, and Dynamical Systems
What Nature Builds: Materials and Devices
Building Devices the Way that Nature Does
Part II. Structure-Function, Development, and Vulnerabilities of Nervous Systems
Nature’s Nervous System Networks
Human Nervous System: Development and Vulnerability
How Nature Remodels and Repairs Neural Circuits
Part III. Understanding and Emulating Nature’s Responses to Injury or Damage
Neuroprosthetics: The Embodiment of Devices
Neurorehabilitation for Remodeling and Repairing Injured Nervous Systems
Toward Devices That are Seamless Parts of Collective, Adaptive, and Emergent Systems
References
Index