Bio-inspirierte Materialentwicklungen

Abstract

Biological materials are often characterized by the fact that their structuring is at least equally, sometimes even more important for generating certain properties or property combinations than their chemical composition. This is not only the case for volume properties, but also for the skin of animals or the surface of leaves or blossoms. Biological structures for hydrophobization or antireflection of surfaces, adaptive coloring, drag reduction and increase of adhesion have been selected in this article as examples how such structures can be transferred (by means of bio-inspiration) to the development of new materials.