Now, we are at a turning point in our technical evolution and consideration of sustainability. How can we live with an advanced technology and without destroying our Earth? Nature can teach us. Over the 3.8 billion years, evolution has occurred as a result of adaptation to environment. These nature’s challenges have the greatest innovative solution potential with maximal performance using minimal resources. Nature’s inventions have always inspired human life and have led to effective algorithms, methods, materials, process, structures, tools, behavior, control, mechanisms, systems, and more. We call this “Nature-Inspired Technology”. Especially, the nature inspired functional surfaces have great attention in industrial and research fields. I will introduce the definition of nature inspired technology and the nature inspired functional surfaces which exhibit the superhydrophobic and antireflective property, bactericidal property, dew collection property, and anti-icing property, etc. Even though we have a long way to go for realization of nature’s wisdom, these researches will conduct the advanced function and sustainability in technology.

- 2002년 고려대학교 화학과(박사)

- 2003년-현재 한국기계연구원 책임연구원
- 2002년~2003년 UC Berkeley 화학공학과 박사 후 연구원