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• Phd Transfer Paper – the Biomimetics of Hooks
• Paper 1: The Biomimetic/Bionic Study of Arctium minus (Burdock) – Uncorrected – see below for Journal Article link
• Paper 1(b) Formatted for Conference the Biomimetics of Hooks – to date unused nor peer reviewed
• Paper 2: A Biomimetic/Bionic Study of Arctium Minus (Burdock) – Imaging Small (~mm) Hooks of Cellulose and Chitin – SUBMITTED – see link below to Journal Article
• Paper 2(b) Formatted for Conference Biomimetics of Hooks – neither used nor peer reviewed
• Paper 3 – The Biomimetic/Bionic Study of Burdock (Arctium minus) – SUBMITTED – Vastly altered – see Background and Conclusion posts – full version shall be forthcoming with publication in April 2016
• Paper 3(b) Formatted for Conference the Biomimetics of Hooks – Neither used nor peer reviewed
• Proposal for silent attachment mechanism – Work in Progress
• Paper 4: On a Silent Attachment Mechanism from a Biomimetic/Bionic study of Arctium minus (Burdock) WIP
• Paper 5: On a Silent Biomimetic/Bionic Attachment Mechanism WIP
• APPENDIX 1 – LIBRARY OF ZOOLOGICAL EXAMPLES OF ATTACHMENT MECHANISMS
• APPENDIX 2 – BIOMATERIALS
• APPENDIX 3 – THE PLANT EPIDERMIS, CELL WALL AND TRICHOMES
• APPENDIX 4 – STUDIES OF ATTACHMENT MECHANISMS AND PROBABLISTIC FASTENERS IN NATURE
• APPENDIX 5 – MORPHOLOGICAL STUDIES – METHODS OF RECORDING SHAPES FOR BIOMIMETICISTS
• APPENDIX 6 – SHAPE OPTIMISATION IN BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS
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• CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY AND A BURDOCK HOOK THAT DOESN’T LOOK LIKE VELCRO
• Paper 1 – A Bionic/Biomimetic study of Arctium minus – Published 29/7/2015
• PUBLISHED 23/11/2015 – Paper two – A Biomimetic Study of Natural Attachment Mechanisms – imaging cellulose and chitin
• CORRECTED VERSION – A Biomimetic Study of Natural Attachment Mechanisms – Model Development – Part 3
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Nanotechnology, Biomimetics, Micro-design, Arctium minus et al Hook and Velcro – A PhD and a Virtual Textbook on Biological Attachment Mechanisms and their Mimicking

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