As Stainless as the Lotus

摘要

The artificial imitation of natural creatures has always been a forever dream in the fairy tales or scientific fictions. Thanks to the development of science and technology, this long-cherished dream has come true in some ways. Bionics, a branch of science concerned with applying the data and mechanisms of the functions of biological system to the solution of engineering problems, has become one of the frontier areas of science in the 21st century, as what was shown in many reviews and books published in the late 20th century. In fact, human being got inspiration from the nature and created lots of bionic products in the past decades, e.g. the airplane and the radar. However, few examples are given in molecular-level or nano-scale artificial plant surface.