Bionic Engineering for Boosting Multidisciplinary Integration: 2nd Edition

Dear Colleagues,

Bionics has had distinctive multi-disciplinary properties since its birth. The vigorous development of core research in bionics in recent decades has further promoted multidisciplinary innovation. Combining the advantages of disciplines such as mechanical engineering, materials science, physical chemistry, biology, and medicine, bionic engineering has embodied and engineered the ideology of “learning from nature but going beyond nature”, demonstrating the visionary prospects of its engineering applications. Moreover, comprehensive and sustainable development in fields that could benefit from bionic engineering applications, such as bionic intelligent robots, bionic functional materials, and bionic medical engineering, among many other emerging research branches, also greatly expand the research boundaries of traditional disciplines. Therefore, it is beneficial to assess the development of bionic engineering and accurately predict its future development by focusing on the unique role of bionic engineering in promoting multidisciplinary integration. This could also help researchers in multidisciplinary fields grasp the frontiers of bionic engineering research.

This Special Issue mainly focuses on the latest research and original insights into bionic engineering that boost multidisciplinary integration. This may include, but is not limited to, the topics of bionic innovative design, bionic material preparation, bionic engineering applications, etc. We invite biomimeticians, biologists, mechanical engineers, materials scientists, and chemists from all over the world to contribute to this Special Issue. We would also like to create an international, open, and shared academic exchange platform for researchers in the bionic engineering field and seek to promote the high-quality development of bionics together.

Dr. Zhengzhi Mu
Dr. Wenxin Cao
Dr. Zhi-bei Qu
Dr. Jiao Yan
Guest Editors

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