Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Charles Godfrey Binder professor of engineering science and mechanics,
co-chaired a conference entitled Bioinspiration, Biomimetics, and Bioreplication during the
SPIE Smart Structures Symposium convened at San Diego, CA, between March 7 and 10, 2011.

At this conference, Drew P. Pulsifer, Ph.D. student, presented a paper entitled
"Engineered biomimicry: polymeric replication of surface features found on insects". His co-authors were Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Raúl J. Martín-Palma (Autonomous University of Madrid) and Carlo G. Pantano (Penn State).

Dr. Lakhtakia also co-authored the paper entitled "Prismatic bioinspired compound lenses for solar cells". This paper was presented by Francesco Chiadini (University of Salerno), and was also co-authored by
Vincenzo Fiumara (University of Basilicata) and Antonio Scaglione (University of Salerno).