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NEVER BEFORE
BY V.RAMALINGAM
Millions of years of successive
improvement through natural selection,
nature seems to have a solution for
everything – find out how we’re using
them to solve modern, human problems.
http://www.bath.ac.uk/~ensab/B-man/tr_11_00/
Stenocara beetle
ஆக்ஸ்யபோர்ட்
பல் ககலகைகத்கத
சோர்ந்த விலங் கி ல்
ஆ ் வோளர் அன்டுருவ்
போர்கர்.
The beetle is able to survive
by collecting water on its bumpy back
surface from early morning fogs.
Learning efficiency from
Kingfishers..
• The Shinkansen Bullet Train (Japan): fastest train in
the world (300 km/hour)
• The problem? Thunder claps/Sonic boom
Bombardier
beetle’s
A secret
weapon
Ortiz and her colleagues are studying the beetle
and other species to develop
military armour inspired by biology. They have
already developed a flexible, protective material
based on an armoured fish.— New York Times
News Service
SKIN LITE CREAM
The beetle has two chambered glands in which the explosive
chemicals are produced. When a predator approaches or the
beetle becomes alarmed, a valve opens, and a single drop of
the chemical falls from one chamber into the second, where
it combines with a catalyst and sets off an explosion.
A flexible membrane closes off the valve while the spray is
being released. After the explosion, the valve reopens, so
another drop of the toxin can enter the explosion chamber.
The mechanism creates a pulsed spray of toxin, rather than
a steady stream, which allows the explosion chamber to
cool down between pulses, Ortiz said.
It can be much hotter than a stream, and it can go much
faster because it’s a smaller amount of material.
Nature’s array of structure and design is
amazing.
These are just a few examples of Gecko feet
http://www.lclark.edu/~autumn/PNAS/PNAS_images/GeckoFeet_300.jpg
Geckos have
millions of
microscopic hairs
on the bottom of
their feet that act
like an adhesive,
allowing them to
climb up walls and
even on glass
Dr. Kellar Autumn, a biologist at
Lewis and Clark College
Researchers have
figured out the secret
to Gecko design:
we can find a way to Sticking
shed surface dirt we with gecko
could improve surface- glue.
You’re an inventor…
Winner of the 2016-2017 PubCo Award for
Best Illustration
Evaluate your findings
Thank your teacher (Nature)
for the
inspiration
இ ற் ககக யநசிக்கவுை்
போதுகோக்கவுை் பூர்வகுடிகளிடை் இருந் து
கற் றுக்பகோள் ள யவண்டுை் !