Alessandro Porrari- Roma Tre University
Alessandro Porrari
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Taking inspiration from nature allows to engineer materials that possess improved performance, durability and reliability. For instance, living systems repair themselves spontaneously when their biological tissues are injured. Similarly, a material that self-heals when cracked or damaged has the potential to significantly augment its life-time and...
In the last two decades, there has been a growing interest in the use of smart materials or stimuli-responsive materials in high-tech industries and material science technologies. Current trends are working towards the development of materials that can be controlled and/or act in a predicted manner, undergoing significant macroscopic deformations w...
