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List of works by Nicola Pugno

2D Material Armors Showing Superior Impact Strength of Few Layers

scientific article published on 9 November 2017

A comparative study of the mechanical properties of a dinosaur and crocodile fossil teeth

scientific article published on 18 May 2019

A design strategy to match the band gap of periodic and aperiodic metamaterials

scientific article published on 02 October 2020

A mechanical system for tensile testing of supported films at the nanoscale

scientific article published on 27 June 2018

A novel combined experimental and multiscale theoretical approach to unravel the structure of SiC/SiOx core/shell nanowires for their optimal design

scientific article published on 01 July 2018

Approximating gecko setae via direct laser lithography

scientific article published in 2018

Biofunctional Silk Kirigami With Engineered Properties

scientific article published on 05 March 2020

Bionicomposites

scientific article published on 01 February 2019

Breaking the Nanoparticle Loading-Dispersion Dichotomy in Polymer Nanocomposites with the Art of Croissant-Making

scientific article published on 17 September 2018

Coherently aligned nanoparticles within a biogenic single crystal: A biological prestressing strategy.

scientific article published in December 2017

Competition between delamination and tearing in multiple peeling problems

scientific article published on 27 November 2019

Conversionless efficient and broadband laser light diffusers for high brightness illumination applications

scientific article published on 18 March 2020

Disordered protein-graphene oxide co-assembly and supramolecular biofabrication of functional fluidic devices

scientific article published on 04 March 2020

Effect of mechanical stimulation on the degradation of poly(lactic acid) scaffolds with different designed structures

scientific article published on 18 April 2019

Emergence of the interplay between hierarchy and contact splitting in biological adhesion highlighted through a hierarchical shear lag model

scientific article published on 01 July 2018

Evidence of friction reduction in laterally graded materials

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Evolution of aerial spider webs coincided with repeated structural optimization of silk anchorages

scientific article published on 10 September 2019

Folding Large Graphene-on-Polymer Films Yields Laminated Composites with Enhanced Mechanical Performance

scientific article published on 11 July 2018

Free-Standing Graphene Oxide and Carbon Nanotube Hybrid Papers with Enhanced Electrical and Mechanical Performance and Their Synergy in Polymer Laminates

scientific article published on 14 November 2020

Friction and Adhesion of Different Structural Defects of Graphene

scientific article published on 13 December 2018

Graphene as Barrier to Prevent Volume Increment of Air Bubbles over Silicone Polymer in Aqueous Environment

scientific article published on 18 October 2017

Hierarchical self-entangled carbon nanotube tube networks.

scientific article published on 31 October 2017

How spiders hunt heavy prey: the tangle web as a pulley and spider's lifting mechanics observed and quantified in the laboratory

scientific article published in 2021

Ice-regenerated flame retardant and robust film of <i>Bombyx mori</i> silk fibroin and POSS nano-cages

scientific article published on 28 February 2018

Imaging and mechanical characterization of different junctions in spider orb webs

scientific article published on 08 April 2019

Laser-Based Texturing of Graphene to Locally Tune Electrical Potential and Surface Chemistry

scientific article published on 11 December 2018

Matrix-induced pre-strain and mineralization-dependent interfibrillar shear transfer enable 3D fibrillar deformation in a biogenic armour

scholarly article

Mechanical Properties and Weibull Scaling Laws of Unknown Spider Silks

scientific article published on 26 June 2020

Modeling and simulation of the impact behavior of soft polymeric-foam-based back protectors for winter sports

scientific article published on 06 November 2018

Multifunctional roles of hairs and spines in old man of the Andes cactus: Droplet distant coalescence and mechanical strength

scientific article published on 04 January 2022

Multilayer stag beetle elytra perform better under external loading via non-symmetric bending properties

scientific article published on 01 July 2018

Optimized production of a high‐performance hybrid biomaterial: biomineralized spider silk for bone tissue engineering

scientific article published in 2019

Prey Capturing Dynamics and Nanomechanically Graded Cutting Apparatus of Dragonfly Nymph

scientific article published on 25 January 2021

Prey Impact Localization Enabled by Material and Structural Interaction in Spider Orb Webs

scientific article published in 2022

Proof of concept of a frequency-preserving and time-invariant metamaterial-based nonlinear acoustic diode

scientific article published on 02 July 2019

Properties of Biomimetic Artificial Spider Silk Fibers Tuned by PostSpin Bath Incubation

scientific article published on 16 July 2020

Publisher Correction: Hierarchical self-entangled carbon nanotube tube networks.

scientific article published on 9 January 2018

Secondary electron emission and yield spectra of metals from Monte Carlo simulations and experiments

scientific article published on 23 November 2018

Serpentine locomotion through elastic energy release

scientific article

Slip knots and unfastening topologies enhance toughness without reducing strength of silk fibroin fibres.

scientific article published on February 2016

Stag Beetle Elytra: Localized Shape Retention and Puncture/Wear Resistance

scientific article published on 05 December 2019

Strengthening of Wood-Like Materials via Densification and Nanoparticle Intercalation

scientific article published on 06 March 2020

Surface Phenomena Enhancing the Antibacterial and Osteogenic Ability of Nanocrystalline Hydroxyapatite, Activated by Multiple-Ion Doping

scientific article published on 08 October 2019

The Impact of Shear and Elongational Forces on Structural Formation of Polyacrylonitrile/Carbon Nanotubes Composite Fibers during Wet Spinning Process

scientific article published on 30 August 2019

The influence of substrate roughness, patterning, curvature and compliance in peeling problems.

scientific article published on 12 December 2017

The role of hairs in the adhesion of octopus suckers: a hierarchical peeling approach

scientific article published on 20 March 2020

Towards in situ determination of 3D strain and reorientation in the interpenetrating nanofibre networks of cuticle.

scientific article published on 28 July 2017

Vertically-Aligned Functionalized Silicon Micropillars for 3D Culture of Human Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Cortical Progenitors

scientific article published on 30 December 2019

Vibrational calling signals improve the efficacy of pheromone traps to capture the brown marmorated stink bug

scientific article published in 2022

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