2020_07_10
很多生物都有自己一套方法,可以黏附在自然界任何表面上,方便居住、活動和保護自己。另一邊廂,又有其他物種利用滑溜的表皮,成功防止塵垢、細菌和其他東西在自己身上逗留。生物世界裡的這些黏附和滑脫超能力,能否啟發我們改革創新?有黏合或排斥能力的物料對我們非常重要,是人類基本需要的一部份。愈來愈多科學家、設計師和創業家從動植物身上汲取靈感,發明比現在更便宜、有效和可持續的黏合和滑脫舖面物料。
A lot of organisms have found wonderful solutions to adhere to all kinds of surfaces in nature, whether it is to accommodate, to move or to protect themselves. Others, on the contrary, succeeded to create the most slippery surfacing on which no dirt, no germ or anything else can hang.
What if these adhesion and slip superpowers created by the living world could enable us to innovate? Materials that “bind” or “repel” are essential and have always been a part of our fundamental needs. More and more scientists, designers and entrepreneurs draw inspiration from fauna and flora to create cheaper, more efficient and more sustainable sticky or slippery materials and surfacing than the ones currently used.