The gecko's foot : bio-inspiration : engineering new materials from nature /
Peter Forbes.
- 1st American ed.
- New York : W. W. Norton & Co., 2006, c2005.
- xv, 272 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
First published: Great Britain: Fourth Estate, 2005.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
An analysis of the unlikely relationship between nature and scientific design reveals how such innovations as Velcro, solar panels, and self-cleaning surfaces were created to mimic intricate mechanisms found in the natural world.