By creating a shear-sensitive protein gel and a uniquely biomimetic spinning mechanism, Spintex Engineering has developed a process that mimics a spider spinnerets’ ability to create a fiber from a liquid gel, at room temperature, without harsh chemicals.

Nanomik Biotechnology protects crops from fungi by controlling the release of plant defense molecules found throughout nature. Their targeted microencapsulation system is applied in both pre-harvest and post-harvest applications and outperforms synthetic fungicides, all while treating a broad spectrum of fungal diseases.

The team at Biohm has mimicked nature’s nutrient cycles to address climate change and resource depletion and waste all at the same time, helping us cut fewer trees, emit less CO2, send less to the landfill, and perhaps one day eliminate the concept of waste altogether. Learn how Biohm used biomimicry to emulate nature’s closed loop system and trained fungi, nature’s master “recyclers,” to help decompose all of the “waste”.

Inspired by nature’s elegant process of photosynthesis, the team at New Iridium  has developed a way to use light instead of heat to power chemical transformations. Learn about how this light-driven chemical technology, otherwise known as a photocatalysis, inspired a way for New Iridium to practice biomimicry in developing a light-absorbing chemical compound to accelerate reactions. This heat-free, metal-free technology reduces the steps in the chemical production process, uses far less energy, and also reduces the creation of waste.

The Cyphochilus beetle has evolved an extraordinary network-like system in their exoskeleton that’s one of the best light scatterers found in nature. Amazed by this phenomenon, the scientists at Impossible Materials used the practice of biomimicry to create safer and more renewable structural pigments that could be used in everything from food coloring and packaging, to automotive paint and paper, to cosmetics and toothpaste.