Abstract #1464

Bio-inspired optimization of technical fiber-reinforced ramifications using high-resolution MRI of Dracaena marginata branchings as concept generators

Linnea Hesse^1,2, Tom Masselter^1,3,4, Nils Spengler⁵, Jan Gerrit Korvink⁵, Jochen Leupold⁶, and Thomas Speck^1,2,4

¹Botanical Garden, University Freiburg, Plant Biomechanics Group, Freiburg, Germany, ²Freiburg Centre for Interactive Materials and Bioinspired Technologies (FIT), Freiburg, Germany, ³Freiburg Centre for Interactive Materials and Bioinspired Technologies (FIT), Freiburg, ⁴Competence Network Biomimetics, Germany, ⁵Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Microstructure Technology, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany, ⁶Department of Radiology University Medical Center Freiburg, Medical Physics, Freiburg, Germany

MRT is still a little-known and highly underestimated imaging method within the field of functional morphology and biomechanics of plants and biomimetics. Its non-invasive and non-destructive character in combination with a large variety of applicable imaging sequences, gives this method a strong potential to shed light to various unanswered scientific questions concerning both the plant structure and function as well as on physiology. Using a Bruker Biospec 94/20 9.4T and a 3D FLASH sequence we could gain new insights into the biomechanics and development of dragon tree ramifications as a source of inspiration for the optimization of technical fiber-reinforced ramifications.

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