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Androulidakis, Charalampos and Koukaras, Emmanuel N. and Frank, Otakar and Tsoukleri, Georgia and Sfyris, Dimitris and Parthenios, John and Pugno, Nicola M. and Papagelis, Konstantinos and Novoselov, Kostya S. and Galiotis, Costas (2014) Failure Processes in Embedded Monolayer Graphene under Axial Compression. In «Scientific Reports», vol. 4, London, UK : Nature Publishing Group, p. 5271.

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 Colella, S. and Mattoli, Virgilio and Mazzolai, Barbara and Pugno, Nicola M. (2014) Hierarchical multiple peeling simulations. In «RSC Advances», vol. 4, n. 48 London, UK : The Royal Society of Chemistry, pp. 25447-25452.

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.

Clemente, Alessandra and Bergamin, Federica and Surace, Cecilia and Lepore, Emiliano and Pugno, Nicola M. (2015) Barbed suture vs conventional tenorrhaphy: biomechanical analysis in an animal model. In «Journal of Orthopaedics and Traumatology», vol. 16, n. 1 Milan, Italy : Springer Milan, pp. 1-7.

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.).

Panzavolta, Silvia and Bracci, Barbara and Gualandi, Chiara and Focarete, Maria Letizia and Treossi, Emanuele and Kouroupis-Agalou, Konstantinos and Rubini, Katia and Bosia, Federico and Brely, Lucas and Pugno, Nicola M. and Palermo, Vincenzo and Bigi, Adriana (2014) Structural reinforcement and failure analysis in composite nanofibers of graphene oxide and gelatin. In «Carbon», vol. 78, Netherlands : Elsevier, pp. 566-577.

Pugno, Nicola M. (2014) The "Egg of Columbus" for Making the World’s Toughest Fibres. In «PLOS ONE», vol. 9, n. 4 San Francisco, CA (USA) : Public Library of Science, e93079-6 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.

Shi, Xinghua and Peng, Bo and Pugno, Nicola M. and Gao, Huajian (2012) Stretch-induced softening of bending rigidity in graphene. In «Applied Physics Letters», vol. 100, Melville, NY, USA : AIP Publishing, 191193-(5 pp.).

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.

Tan, P. H. and Han, W. P. and Zhao, W. J. and Wu, Z. H. and Chang, W. and Wang, H. and Bonini, N. and Marzari, N. and Pugno, Nicola M. and Savini, G. and Lombardo, A. and Ferrari, Andrea C. (2012) The shear mode of multi-layer graphene. In «Nature Materials», vol. 11, London, UK : Nature Publishing Group, pp. 294-300.

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.