Biomimetics in Materials Science

Dr. Michael Nosonovsky is an Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (UWM). He is a co-author of one monograph, ten book chapters, and more than 50 research articles. For his work on the Lotus effect and biomimetic surfaces, he was honored with the 2008 Burt L. Newkirk Award by ASME. Dr. Pradeep K. Rohatgi is Wisconsin Distinguished Professor and Director of the UWM Center for Composites. He is a pioneer in the field of composite materials, particularly metal matrix composites. Rohatgi has coauthored and edited eleven books and over four hundred scientific papers, and holds 20 U.S. patents. In 2006, he was honored with the "Rohatgi Honorary Symposium" on Solidification Processing of Metal Matrix Composites by The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society.

• Preface.- Chapter 1. Introduction.- PART ONE. SELF-HEALING MATERIALS.- Chapter 2. Thermodynamic principles of self-healing in metallic materials.- Chapter 3. Case study of self-healing in metallic composite with embedded low melting temperature solders.- Chapter 4. Surface healing: a case study.- Chapter 5. Development of Metallic and metal matrix composite self-healing materials.- PART TWO. SELF-LUBRICATING MATERIALS.- Chapter 6. Friction, wear, and self-lubrication.- Chapter 7. Thermodynamic methods in tribology and friction-induced self-organization.- Chapter 8. Tribological properties of metal matrix composites.- PART THREE. SELF-CLEANING MATERIALS.- Chapter 9. Thermodynamic foundations of wetting and capillary phenomena.- Chapter 10. Superhydrophobicity.- Chapter 11. Lotus-effect and self-cleaning.- Chapter 12. Self-cleaning in the water flow.- Chapter 13. Artificial self-cleaning surfaces.- Chapter 14. Outlook.