2020 Volume 20 Issue 6 Pages 267-274
Biomimetics is the innovative paradigm shift based on biodiversity for sustainability. Biodiversity is not only the result of evolutionary adaptation but also the optimized solution of “an epic combinatorial chemistry” for sustainability, because the diversity has been acquired by “biological processes and technology” including “production processes”, “operating principles”, and “control systems”, all of which differ from the “human technology”. Biomimetics is an emergent interdisciplinary field of natural history, biology, ecology, mathematics, physics, chemistry, nanotechnology, materials science, mechanical engineering, architecture, economics, and sociology. “Biomimetic Informatics” based on biological database and information science is an important tool for the technology transfer from biology to engineering. The comprehensive translational research combining various fields of science and technology is indispensable to open the new paradigm based on biological diversity and human wisdom. Recently the Council of the EU adopted reduction of marine plastic litter from single-use plastic products towards safeguarding natural environment and transition to Circular Economy for promoting sustainable production and consumption. Biomimetics is an ecosystem service based on biodiversity, that brings about paradigm shift for technological innovation in sustainable manufacturing under the restricted environmental condition in the new geological age, “Anthropocene”.
