Editorial—Special Issue on the NCCR Bio‐Inspired Materials

The National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) Bio-Inspired Materials was established in June 2014 to create a Swiss research network dedicated to developing environmentally adaptive and stimuli-responsive materials inspired by nature. Throughout its twelve-year funding period, the centre has been guided by the vision of its main funders—the Swiss National Science Foundation and the University of Fribourg—to draw inspiration from biological systems to create stimuli-responsive materials, u