One day in 1948, the Swiss engineer George de Mestral was cleaning his dog of burrs picked up on a walk when he realised how the hooks of the burrs clung to the fur. His realisation led to the invention of Velcro -- and a multimillion-dollar industry.
The study of the structure and function of biological systems as models for the design and engineering of materials.
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