Paper NM-TuM8
Nature-Inspired Approaches to Nanotechnologies

Tuesday, December 4, 2018, 10:20 am, Room Naupaka Salon 5

Biomimetics, Biomimicry, Nature-Inspired, or Biologically Inspired technologies are all referring to the emerging fields where innovations are strongly influenced by the wisdom from nature or biological systems. Biomimetics is the scientific approach of learning new principles and processes based on systematic study of living organisms, plants, or animals in order to develop novel engineering systems through the convergence of biology, materials science, cognitive science, robotics, and nanotechnology. Especially, the multi-functionality offered by nature can enable various applications with the help of nanotechnology. Multiple levels of approaches are feasible from nature-inspiration – adaptation of how nature works, adoption of what nature provides, or replication of natural processes and functionalities for eco-friendly, sustainable, and highly efficient technologies. In this talk, nature-inspired approaches to nanotechnology will be introduced for next generation technologies in omniphobic surfaces, color reflective displays, neuromorphic semiconductors, stretchable electronics, biomaterials and biosensors enabled by biomimetic surface, optical, electronic, or bio functionalities.

This research was supported by the MIST (Ministry of Science and ICT), Korea, under the “ICT Consilience Creative Program” (IITP-2018-2017-0-01015) supervised by the IITP (Institute for Information & communications Technology Promotion) and also under the “Mid-career Researcher Program” (NRF-2016R1A2B2014612) supervised by the NRF (National Research Foundation) and by the MOTIE (Ministry of Trade, Industry & Energy (project number 10080625) and KSRC (Korea Semiconductor Research Consortium) support program for the development of the future semiconductor device.