TY  - BOOK
AU  - Forbes,Peter
TI  - The gecko's foot: bio-inspiration : engineering new materials from nature 
SN  - 9780393062236 
AV  - T173.8 .F63 2006
U1  - 600 22
PY  - 2006///, c2005
CY  - New York
PB  - W. W. Norton & Co.
KW  - Technological innovations
KW  - Nature
KW  - Bioengineering.
KW  - Biomechanics
N1  - First published: Great Britain: Fourth Estate, 2005; Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - 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
ER  -