Issue 7, 2013
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Soft Matter

Comment on “Innovation through imitation: biomimetic, bioinspired and biokleptic research” by A. E. Rawlings, J. P. Bramble and S. S. Staniland, Soft Matter, 2012, 8, 6675

Manfred Drack*a  and  Ille C. Gebeshuberbc  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Theoretical Biology, University of Vienna, Althanstrasse 14, 1090 Wien, Austria
E-mail: manfred.drack@univie.ac.at
Fax: +43 142779567
Tel: +43 1427756706

b Institute of Microengineering and Nanoelectronics, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Malaysia
E-mail: ille.gebeshuber@ukm.my
Tel: +60 133198588

c Institute of Applied Physics, Vienna University of Technology, Wiedner Hauptstrasse 8-10, 1040 Wien, Austria
E-mail: gebeshuber@iap.tuwien.ac.at
Tel: +43 15880113436

Abstract

We try to clarify some issues that were raised by an article that appeared in Soft Matter, 2012, 8, 6675. The main question was how to distinguish biomimetic, bioinspired and biokleptic research. We put forward a “continental” perspective that can help to avoid some of the confusion that might have been evoked.

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Article information

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C2SM26722E
Article type
Comment
Submitted
25 Jul 2012
Accepted
29 Nov 2012
First published
03 Jan 2013

Soft Matter, 2013,9, 2338-2340

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M. Drack and I. C. Gebeshuber, Soft Matter, 2013, 9, 2338 DOI: 10.1039/C2SM26722E

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