ABSTRACT

Biomimetics is a new eld of materials science. It opens a new era of future of engineering. Biomimetic materials are novel materials having unique characteristics. They possess nature graded property and are being tried in almost all elds of engineering. Due to their versatility of behaviour, their concepts are now used in aircraft construction, robot construction and industrial bearings. The study and simulation of biological systems with desired properties is popularly known as biomimetics. Such an approach involves the transformation of the principles discovered in nature into manmade technology. Biomimetics, already popular in the elds of materials science and engineering, is being applied in diverse areas ranging from micro-/nanoelectronics to structural engineering and in tribology.