From bioinspired multifunctionality to mimumes
From bioinspired multifunctionality to mimumes
The methodologies of bioinspiration, biomimetics and bioreplication are inevitably pointing to the incorporation of multifunctionality in engineered materials when designing ever more complex systems. Optimal multifunctionality is one of the defining characteristics of metamaterials. As fibrous materials are commonly manufactured from a variety of source materials, mimumes – that is, …