TY - GEN
T1 - An optical adventure in sexual deception
AU - Lakhtakia, Akhlesh
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2016.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Bioreplication, the direct replication of a biological structure to copy at least one of its functionalities, is a newly emerging concept within the ambit of engineered biomimicry. An industrially scalable bioreplication process with nanoscale fidelity has been devised and improved to produce visual decoys of an invasive insect species. The decoys are very successful in luring males of the species towards attempted copulation followed by electrocution, thereby disrupting the reproduction cycle and providing forestry managers a tool to limit the spread of the invasive species.
AB - Bioreplication, the direct replication of a biological structure to copy at least one of its functionalities, is a newly emerging concept within the ambit of engineered biomimicry. An industrially scalable bioreplication process with nanoscale fidelity has been devised and improved to produce visual decoys of an invasive insect species. The decoys are very successful in luring males of the species towards attempted copulation followed by electrocution, thereby disrupting the reproduction cycle and providing forestry managers a tool to limit the spread of the invasive species.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-94-017-7478-9_10
DO - 10.1007/978-94-017-7478-9_10
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84964838946
SN - 9789401774888
T3 - NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics
SP - 203
EP - 209
BT - Fundamental and Applied Nano-Electromagnetics
A2 - Maffucci, Antonio
A2 - Maksimenko, Sergey A.
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - Workshop on Fundamental and Applied Nanoelectromagnetics, 2015
Y2 - 25 May 2015 through 27 May 2015
ER -