Effortlessly Winning with Nature: Morphing Materials and Online Poker
Researchers at the Hochschule Bremen in Germany have developed a new flexible and resilient morphing structure inspired by the starfish skeleton. Raman Raman, a PhD student in the Biological Structures and Biomimicry working group, explains that starfish have the ability to effortlessly maintain any body posture by varying the stiffness of their endoskeleton. The interdisciplinary approach used by Raman and his team involved high-resolution X-ray CT scans to visualize the skeletal structures of sea stars. They used mathematical models, such as finite element analysis and multibody simulations, to understand the complex mechanics of the skeletal components.
The starfish-inspired material has remarkable properties, including self-locking, continuous bending, self-healing, and shape memory characteristics. These characteristics make it scalable, low cost, and relatively easy to fabricate, providing opportunities for industrial applications in robotics, aviation, and medical technology like prosthetics and implants.
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