Bionics and Sustainable Design

Felipe Luis Palombini is a Post-Doctoral Researcher in the Graduate Program of Botany (PPGBot) at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), in Porto Alegre (Brazil). Felipe Palombini received his M.Sc. and his Ph.D. in the Graduate Program in Design (PGDesign), in the School of Engineering (UFRGS). His main research topics are focused on bionics, sustainability, design, and materials selection and characterization via Finite Element Analysis and X-ray Microtomography. He is associated with the Design and Computer Simulation Research Group (DSC), and the Plant Anatomy Laboratory (LAVeg), at UFRGS. Dr. Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu currently works for SgT Group as Head of Sustainability, and is based out of Hong Kong. He earned his PhD from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and is a renowned expert in the areas of Environmental Sustainability in Textiles & Clothing Supply Chain, Product Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Product Carbon Footprint Assessment (PCF) in various industrial sectors. He has five years of industrial experience in textile manufacturing, research and development and textile testing and seven years of experience in life cycle assessment (LCA), carbon and ecological footprints assessment of various consumer products. He has published more than 100 research publications, written numerous book chapters and authored/edited over 100 scientific books in the areas of Carbon Footprint, Recycling, Environmental Assessment and Environmental Sustainability.

• Two-way bionics: How technological advances for bioinspired designs contribute to the study of plant anatomy and morphology.- Transport package and release of Ladybug larvae with Biomimetic concepts.- Characterization of the gradient cellular structure of bottle gourd (Lagenaria siceraria) and implications for bioinspired applications.- Bamboo-based microfluidic system for sustainable bio-devices.- Bionics for inspiration: a new look at Brazilian natural materials for application in sustainable jewelry.- Exploiting the potential of Nature for sustainable building designs: A novel bioinspired framework based on a characterization of living envelopes.- Bio-inspired Approaches for Sustainable Cities Design in Tropical Climate.