Journal of nanoporous system

Journal of nanoporous system

Bioinspiring from the concept of nature for new material design and functionalized adsorbents: A Mini Review

Document Type : Original Article

Author
Professor, Comenius University Bratislava, Faculty of Natural Sciences Department of Environmental Ecology and Landscape Management, Bratislava, Slovakia
Abstract
Biomimetics (or bioinspiration) is one of the most revolutionary scientific fields of the 21st century. It is usually defined as a science which imitates nature and living systems, and helps to sustain life on Earth.  The perfect concept of the nature, which is the result of a long evolutionary development, is currently being transformed into production-technological processes by the scientific discipline of the above bionics. While technological processes still consider energy to be the most important indicator, biology uses information from DNA, which encodes tissues already during synthesis. In the 21st century, some progress has been made in some partial improvements in the properties of manufactured products, which try to imitate the physiological properties of biota, such as products with special surface topography made by electrostatic spinning and sputtering or hydrophobization using polyelectrolytes biosurfactants and similar biomimetics that create hydrogels in science. By immobilizing fine fibers from a wide range of agropolymers (collagen, chitosan, alginates, proteins and polysaccharides), surfaces can be refined to superhydrophobic and self-cleaning surfaces.
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