Imitation of Nature - The Key for Development

Abstract

"We are now at the level of development of nanotechnology, which allows only improve the performance of existing materials, but do not give them a qualitatively new properties. The real breakthroughs come to pass when we learn to do what nature does - namely, to create artificial materials with complex hierarchical structure ", - argues Academician Mikhail Alafimov, Director of the Center for Photochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences.