TY - CHAP AU - Masashi Sekine AU - Kento Sugimori AU - Wenwei Yu ED - Assoc. Lilyana D. Pramatarova Y1 - 2011-08-29 PY - 2011 T1 - To Design a Small Pneumatic Actuator Driven Parallel Link Mechanism for Shoulder Prostheses for Daily Living Use N2 - Bio-mimicry is fundamental idea ‘How to mimic the Nature’ by various methodologies as well as new ideas or suggestions on the creation of novel materials and functions. This book comprises seven sections on various perspectives of bio-mimicry in our life; Section 1 gives an overview of modeling of biomimetic materials; Section 2 presents a processing and design of biomaterials; Section 3 presents various aspects of design and application of biomimetic polymers and composites are discussed; Section 4 presents a general characterization of biomaterials; Section 5 proposes new examples for biomimetic systems; Section 6 summarizes chapters, concerning cells behavior through mimicry; Section 7 presents various applications of biomimetic materials are presented. Aimed at physicists, chemists and biologists interested in biomineralization, biochemistry, kinetics, solution chemistry. This book is also relevant to engineers and doctors interested in research and construction of biomimetic systems. BT - On Biomimetics SP - Ch. 6 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/22050 DO - 10.5772/22050 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-03-29 ER -