Biologically-inspired design

This bonus exercise is worth up to 5 points. You must complete it by 11:59pm Friday February 28 to get credit. Although it is set up as a “test” in HuskyCT, that is only to make it easier for us to grade it and to centralize everything in HuskyCT; there is no penalty for skipping this.

Find an example of biologically-inspired design

Rules

  • must be different than anything turned in by another student (or discussed in lecture)
  • must provide the scientific name (binomial) of the organism that served as inspiration (correctly italicized)
  • must briefly describe what design aspect was inspired by the organism IN YOUR OWN WORDS (no quotes allowed, no plagiarism)
  • must provide a citation including authors (can use “et al.” if more than 2 authors), year, title, and journal
  • must provide the Document Object Identifier (DOI) to the peer-reviewed paper in a scientific journal that describes this example

DOIs already taken

Below is a list of DOIs that have already been used in lecture or claimed by other students. Please check this list before you put a lot of work into a particular example because you will not get any bonus points if you use the same DOI as someone who turned in the assignment before you.

10.1038/s41563-020-0798-1
10.1038/s41586-020-2813-8
10.1088/1748-3190/10/4/046003
10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b05183
10.1098/rsif.2014.0675
10.1088/1748-3190/ad5c25
10.1242/jeb.063040
10.1098/rsif.2017.0828
10.1038/s41467-023-35907-4
10.1088/1748-3182/1/1/P01
10.1051/matecconf/201713500019 
10.4031/MTSJ.45.4.1
10.1088/1748-3182/3/4/046001
10.1016/j.paerosci.2016.03.002
10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b03734.
10.1021/acsami.4c17004
10.1038/nature10447
10.1111/joim.12982
10.1186/s40712-017-0085-3
10.1126/scirobotics.aao5619
10.1021/la204040p
10.1016/j.ijmecsci.2022.108073
10.1126/science.aah6362
10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c03707
10.1002/advs.202207233
10.1126/science.1177894
10.1021/acs.accounts.8b00015
10.1021/acsami.3c13008
10.1038/ncomms2715
10.61173/yqsqtm73
10.1021/am504414q
10.1103/PhysRevFluids.1.033905
10.1186/s40638-015-0028-5
10.1002/anie.202015833
10.1016/S1672-6529(11)60028-0
10.1242/jeb.138438
10.1364/OE.21.00A179
10.3390/app11167514
10.2478/aoa-2014-0037
10.1098/rspb.2013.1200
10.1038/ncomms9011
10.1002/cben.201500011
10.1098/rsta.2018.0268
10.1073/pnas.1116564108
10.1093/icb/icac097
10.1002/adma.201605050
10.1016/j.ymssp.2025.112459
10.1126/sciadv.aaw7013
10.1093/icb/icr016
10.1016/j.sna.2023.114541