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Barber, Asa H. and Lu, Dun and Pugno, Nicola M. (2015) Extreme strength observed in limpet teeth. In «Journal of the Royal Society Interface», United Kingdom : Royal Society Publishing.

Bosia, Federico and Della Croce, Federico and Pugno, Nicola M. (2012) Systematic numerical investigation of the role of hierarchy in heterogeneous bio-inspired materials. In «Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials», vol. 19, Philadelphia, PA, USA : Elsevier, pp. 34-42.

Chen, Qiang and Pugno, Nicola (2012) Competition between in-plane buckling and bending collapses in nanohoneycombs. In «Europhysics Letters», vol. 98, Bristol, UK : IOP Publishing, 16005-(5 pp.).

Chen, Quiang and Gorb, Stanislav N. and Gorb, Elena and Pugno, Nicola M. (2013) Mechanics of plant fruit hooks. In «Journal of the Royal Society Interface», vol. 10, n. 81 London, UK : Royal Society Publishing, 20120913-(7 pp.).

Chiavazzo, Eliodoro and Isaia, Marco and Mammola, Stefano and Lepore, Emiliano and Ventola, Luigi and Asinari, Pietro and Pugno, Nicola M. (2015) Cave spiders choose optimal environmental factors with respect to the generated entropy when laying their cocoon. In «Scientific Reports», vol. 5, London, UK : Macmillan Publishers Limited, p. 7611.

Chou , Chia-Ching and Lepore, Emiliano and Antonaci, Paola and Pugno, Nicola M. and Buehler, Markus J. (2015) Mechanics of trichocyte alpha-keratin fibers: Experiment, theory, and simulation. In «Journal of Materials Research», vol. 30, n. 1 United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, pp. 26-35.

Cranford, Steven W. and Tarakanova, Anna and Pugno, Nicola M. and Buehler, Markus J. (2012) Nonlinear material behaviour of spider silk yields robust webs. In «Nature», vol. 482, London, UK : Nature Publishing Group, pp. 72-76.

Giesa, Tristan and Pugno, Nicola M. and Buehler, Markus J. (2012) Natural stiffening increases flaw tolerance of biological fibers. In «Pysical Review E», vol. 86, Ridge, NY, USA : American Physical Society, 041902-(7 pp.).

Lepore, Emiliano and Giorcelli, Mauro and Saggese, Chiara and Tagliaferro, Alberto and Pugno, Nicola (2013) Mimicking water striders’ legs superhydrophobicity and buoyancy with cabbage leaves and nanotube carpets. In «Journal of Materials Research», vol. 28, n. 7 Warrendale, PA, USA : Materials Research Society, pp. 976-983.

Lepore, Emiliano and Marchioro, Andrea and Isaia, Marco and Buehler, Markus J. and Pugno, Nicola M. (2012) Evidence of the Most Stretchable Egg Sac Silk Stalk, of the European Spider of the Year Meta menardi. In «PLoS ONE», vol. 7, n. 2 San Francisco, CA, USA : PLOS, e30500-(12 pp.).

Pugno, Nicola M. and Cranford, Steven W. and Buehler, Markus J. (2013) Synergetic Material and Structure Optimization Yields Robust Spider Web Anchorages. In «Small», vol. 9, Weinheim, DE : Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, pp. 2747-2756.

Qin, Zhao and Pugno, Nicola and Buehler, Markus J. (2014) Mechanics of fragmentation of crocodile skin and other thin films. In «Scientific Reports», vol. 4, n. 4966 London, UK : Nature Publishing Group, pp. 1-7.

Sun, Yongtao and Chen, Quiang and Pugno, Nicola M. (2013) Elastic and Transport Properties of the Tailorable Multifunctional Hierarchical Honeycombs. In «Composite Structures», vol. 107, Amsterdam, NL : Elsevier, pp. 698-710.

Sun, Yongtao and Pugno, Nicola M. (2013) Hierarchical Fibers with a Negative Poisson’s Ratio for Tougher Composites. In «Materials», vol. 6, n. 2 Basel, Switzerland : MDPI, pp. 699-712.

Zhang, Jianfeng and Ryu, Seunghwa and Pugno, Nicola M. and Wang, Qiming and Tu, Qing and Buehler, Markus J. and Zhao, Xuanhe (2013) Multifunctionality and control of the crumpling and unfolding of large-area graphene. In «Nature Materials», vol. 12, London, UK : Nature Publishing Group, pp. 321-325.