@article{346328,
      author = {Allen, R.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/346328},
      title = {Bulletproof feathers : how science uses nature's secrets  to design cutting-edge technology /},
      publisher = {University of Chicago Press,},
      abstract = {"Though they may sound like the stuff of science fiction,  in fact such inventions represent only the most recent  iterations of natural mechanisms that are billions of years  old - the focus of the rapidly growing field of  biomimetics. Based on the realization that natural  selection has for countless eons been conducting  trial-and-error experiments with the laws of physics,  chemistry, material science, and engineering, biomimetics  takes nature as its laboratory, looking to the most  successful developments and strategies of an array of  plants and animals as a source of technological innovation  and ideas. Thus the lotus flower, with its waxy,  water-resistant surface, gives us stainproofing; the  feathers of raptors become transformable airplane wings;  and the nerve-deadening serrations on a mosquito's  proboscis are adapted to hypodermics."--pub. desc.},
      recid = {346328},
      pages = {192 p. :},
      address = {Chicago :},
      year = {2010},
}