The Gecko's Foot Bio-inspiration Engineering New Materials from Nature [Paperback]

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you. When Frank Lloyd Wright said this, he probably wasn't envisioning self-cleaning surfaces, the photonic crystal, or Velcro. But nature has indeed yielded such inventions for those scientists and engineers who heeded the architect's words.A riveting account of the unexpected relationship between nature and scientific design.