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Bionic Functional Interfaces and Devices for Low-Carbon Applications
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Bionic Functional Interfaces and Devices for Low-Carbon Applications

A special issue of Biomimetics (ISSN 2313-7673). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Biomimetics".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 March 2024) | Viewed by 4456

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Zhaolong Wang

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College of Mechanical and Vehicle Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China
Interests: bionic interface; low-carbon functional devices; wearable devices; 3D printing technique; metasurfaces
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Prof. Dr. Ping Cheng

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MOE Key Laboratory for Power Machinery and Engineering, School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
Interests: microscale heat transfer; phase-change heat transfer; lattice Boltzmann methods; heat transfer in porous media and geothermal systems; radiative heat transfer and radiative gasdynamics

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Nature provides us with different forms of energy sources and various kinds of materials for use in daily life and social developments. However, the consumption of fossil energy also discharges a huge amount of carbon dioxide, resulting in ever-increasing hazards, e.g., extremely high-temperature weather leading to mountain wildfires, glacier melting causing rises in sea level, biological extinction, etc. For these reasons, low-carbon living is attracting increasing attention, and the need for a significant reduction in CO2 emissions has gradually become a global consensus. Biomimetics can play a significant role in preventing such hazards. Artificial photosynthesis, for example, has made a huge breakthrough in the past two years, making it possible to synthesize proteins and other carbohydrates from CO2 in the air in the laboratory setting. However, the lack of guiding principles, materials, special interfaces, functional devices, and systems has severely limited the development of clean energy harvesting, CO2 capture and reduction, artificial photosynthesis, etc. Biomimetic technology can guide us in designing functional interfaces and devices suitable for future low-carbon applications.

Aim & Scope:

This Special Issue, “Bionic Functional Interfaces and Devices for Low-Carbon Applications”, welcomes original research and review articles that focus on innovative bionic functional interfaces and devices with potential low-carbon applications, such as clean energy production, CO2 reduction, batteries, wearable devices, and so on. In addition, due to the intrinsic multidisciplinary nature of such a research topic, papers from experts in the field related to materials, characterization, design, systems, and fabrication methods, as well as computations and mathematics for the underlying mechanisms of physics, chemistry, biology, and bionic functional surfaces/devices, are also solicited.

Dr. Zhaolong Wang
Prof. Dr. Ping Cheng
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Biomimetics is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2200 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • bionic surfaces
  • functional interfaces
  • mimicked devices
  • biomimetic electrodes
  • biomechanics
  • bionic systems and structures
  • biomimetic design
  • microfluidics
  • novel materials
  • 3D printing technique
  • computations for bionic interfaces/devices
  • low-carbon applications of novel bionic devices

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Study of the Heat Transfer Performance of Laminated Paper Honeycomb Panels
by Yinsheng Li, Jing Yang, Jinxiang Chen and Jian Yin
Biomimetics 2023, 8(1), 46; https://doi.org/10.3390/biomimetics8010046 - 19 Jan 2023
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To apply functional honeycomb panels (FHPs) in actual engineering projects, the heat transfer performance and intrinsic heat transfer mechanism of laminated honeycomb panels (LHPs, total thickness of 60 mm) with different structural parameters were investigated in this study by a heat flow meter. [...] Read more.
To apply functional honeycomb panels (FHPs) in actual engineering projects, the heat transfer performance and intrinsic heat transfer mechanism of laminated honeycomb panels (LHPs, total thickness of 60 mm) with different structural parameters were investigated in this study by a heat flow meter. The results showed that (1) the equivalent thermal conductivity λequ of the LHP was almost independent of the cell size, when it consisted of a small single-layer thickness. Thus, LHP panels with a single-layer thickness of 15–20 mm are recommended. (2) A heat transfer model of LHPs was developed, and it was concluded that the heat transfer performance of LHPs depends greatly on the performance of their honeycomb core. Then, an equation was derived for the steady state temperature distribution of the honeycomb core. (3) The contribution of each heat transfer method to the total heat flux of the LHP was calculated using the theoretical equation. According to the theoretical results, the intrinsic heat transfer mechanism affecting the heat transfer performance of LHPs was revealed. The results of this study laid the foundation for the application of LHPs in building envelopes. Full article
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Theoretical Design of a Bionic Spatial 3D-Arrayed Multifocal Metalens
by Guihui Duan, Ce Zhang, Dongsheng Yang and Zhaolong Wang
Biomimetics 2022, 7(4), 200; https://doi.org/10.3390/biomimetics7040200 - 16 Nov 2022
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With the development of micro/nano-optics, metasurfaces are gaining increasing attention working as novel electromagnetic wave control devices. Among which, metalenses have been developed and applied as a typical application of metasurfaces owing to their unique optical properties. However, most of those previous metalenses [...] Read more.
With the development of micro/nano-optics, metasurfaces are gaining increasing attention working as novel electromagnetic wave control devices. Among which, metalenses have been developed and applied as a typical application of metasurfaces owing to their unique optical properties. However, most of those previous metalenses can only produce one focal point, which severely limits their applications. Inspired by the fly compound eye, we propose a special kind of spatial multifocal metalens. Our metalenses can reverse the polarization state of the incident circularly polarized light, which is then focused. In addition, a horizontally aligned multifocal metalens can be achieved by designing reasonable phase and region distributions, which is similar to a vertically aligned one. Most significantly, a spatially 3D-arrayed multifocal metalens with low crosstalk is well achieved by combining these two distribution methods. The proposed bionic 3D-arrayed multifocal metalens with amazing focusing effect promises applications in imaging, nanoparticle manipulation, optical communication, and other fields. Full article
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