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The building and construction sector is responsible for a high proportion of global greenhouse gas emissions. Some of the greatest challenges for today’s architecture are multifunctionality and sustainability. Thus, any approach to bio-inspired architecture, engineering, and construction sh...

Living organisms sensitively perceive mechanical, optical, and chemical signals in the environment and exhibit adaptive behaviours. The mechanism of biological perception has been the focus of attention in various scientific fields over the years. Many researchers have clarified biological sensor...

Biologically inspired optimisation approaches use mechanisms inspired by biological evolution, such as reproduction, mutation, recombination, and selection. For example, so-called evolutionary algorithms perform well at approximating solutions to all types of problems because they ideally do not ...

In this section, we are looking for experimental and theoretical research, reviews, and commentaries and are particularly interested in examples of constructions and devices with special relation to their biological context and constituent materials, multifunctional structures, and innovative fun...

This section is devoted to biological and biomimetic strategies of fabrication and manufacturing. Inspired by biology, researchers have proposed a great number of materials with high performance, but their methods of preparation are not always as smart as the biological ones. In this section, we ...

Nature has evolved numerous surfaces with specific adhesive, frictional, wetting, and photonic properties that, in many instances, far surpass current artificial technology in their range of adaptation and in their multifunctionality. The study of these surfaces in nature requires interdisciplina...

Material properties are not only determined by the chemical composition but also the internal structure of a material. In the course of evolution, living organisms have developed numerous strategies to create functions by internal structures at many levels of hierarchy. This section is devoted to...

Biomimetics is a relatively young interdisciplinary area of research with its own methodology and numerous experimental and theoretical approaches adapted from very different branches of science. This section assembles original papers and research reviews in the area of biomimetic methodology, wh...

This section is focused on bio-inspired approaches used for reducing the operational energy of different engineering systems including that of buildings. Energy reduction is therefore expected to be achieved through bio-inspired building design, construction, development and energy management, an...

This section considers the natural locomotion and motility of organisms and the biomimetics of nature-like machines exemplified by insect-like robots, fish-like underwater robots, humanoids, intelligent vehicles, and more. Especially, contributions devoted to new designs of intelligent motion sys...