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UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST
FACULTY OF PHYSICS Guest
2024-11-22 1:39 |
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Conference: Bucharest University Faculty of Physics 2006 Meeting
Section: Electricity and Biophysics
Title:
Technical performances of the living organisms
Authors:
Aurel Popescu
Affiliation:
Department of Electricity and Biophysics, Faculty of Physics, University of Bucharest
E-mail
Keywords:
biological optimality,bionics,human activity
Abstract:
The living world is an exciting an inexhaustible source of high performance solutions to the multitude of biological problems, which were attained as a result of the natural selection, during the millions and millions years evolution of life on Earth. In this talk I will present some examples of high performances of living beings, in the light of the universal principle of biological optimality, governing the realm of living matter. This principle is known as Optimal Design Principle (ODP). The examples are overlapping a very large scale of living matter complexity, starting with the molecular level and attaining the pluricellular organisms one. The living matter is according to ODP, an inexhaustible source of inspirations for the engineers, architects, chemists, etc. involved in different fields of human activity. For this reason, the transfer of these optimal solutions, from living matter to techniques, the main objective of Bionics, is also shortly discussed. This transfer is offering new and fertile perspectives to the future technologies, which are claimed to be cheaper, more efficient and non-pollutant.
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