Valentina Perricone

• MSc in Marine Biology
• Post doc at University of California, Irvine

In nature, organisms communicate to each other exchanging key information, primarily for intra and interspecific recognition (e.g., between parents and offspring, predators, members in a herd’s hierarchy)

Coastal erosion, extreme climate events, and the loss of biodiversity are important consequences of climate change that directly impact our society. The needs to develop effective engineering practices using nature as model and mentor are now emerging aimed to develop high-performance coastal infrastructures integrating and sustaining local marine...

The chapter presents a novel approach to carry out biomimetic research and disseminate the culture of bio-inspired designs. It describes the results of an interdisciplinary project, named Echinodesign, i.e. a design-driven biological investigation aimed at understanding the characteristics, principles, and logic of echinoids as well as at facilitat...

Coastal erosion is occurring at a faster rate than in the past. The adverse impacts are not negligible at environmental, economic, and socio-cultural levels. Hence, coastal protection is currently seen as an emerging need to counteract erosion impacts and their many negative effects on worldwide ecosystems. In this regard, natural systems and their...

This article provides an overview of recent advances in the development of nature-based material designs in architecture and construction fields. Firstly, it aims to classify existing projects and ongoing researches into three types: bioinspired, biobased and living building materials. Secondly, selected case studies absolving different functions i...

The skeletal plates of echinoids consist of a peculiar lightweight structure, called stereom, which is organized in a porous three-dimensional lattice-like meshwork. The stereom is characterized by an extremely complex and diverse microarchitecture, largely varying not only from species to species but also among different test plates. It consists o...

Biomimicry is a method of transferring natural strategies developed over millions of years of evolution into new practical applications. The identified biological principles are abstracted and used to solve problems with the aid of technological tools. Based on a biomimetic bottom- up approach, the present study regards the development of new ortho...

Repeated polygonal patterns are pervasive in natural forms and structures. These patterns provide inherent structural stability while optimizing strength-per-weight and minimizing construction costs. In echinoids (sea urchins), a visible regularity can be found in the endoskeleton, consisting of a lightweight and resistant micro-trabecular meshwork...

In biomimetic design, functional systems, principles, and processes observed in nature are used for the development of innovative technical systems. The research on functional features is often carried out without giving importance to the generative mechanism behind them: evolution. To deeply understand and evaluate the meaning of functional morpho...

Since the industrial revolution, the human world has been dominated by eco-systemically unintegrated and non-sustainable manufacturing and mass production leading to natural disasters and extinctions. However, a new perspective is now emerging: an architectural design that does not impose itself on nature but is born, inspired, and integrated with...

In the field of structural engineering, lightweight and resistant shell structures can be designed by efficiently integrating and optimizing form, structure and function to achieve the capability to sustain a variety of loading conditions with a reduced use of resources. Interestingly, a limitless variety of high-performance shell structures can be...

Biomimetics emerges as an effective approach to identify functional bio-inspired solutions for the development of original design applications. This approach does not necessarily result in sustainable products and processes, which are frequently made of petroleum-based materials fabricated with non-renewable and high-energy consuming technologies....

Los equinoides, conocidos como erizos de mar, son invertebrados que pueblan los mares desde finales del Ordovícico. Durante su evolución, se sometieron a una radiación adaptativa relevante que condujo a una variedad de formas y estilos de vida especializados. La mayor parte del éxito evolutivo de los equinoides se debe sin duda al empleo estratégic...

Organisms and their features represent a complex system of solutions that can efficiently inspire the development of original and cutting-edge design applications: the related discipline is known as biomimetics. From the smallest to the largest, every species has developed and adapted different working principles based on their relative dimensional...

The endoskeleton of echinoderms (Deuterostomia: Echinodermata) is of mesodermal origin and consists of cells, organic components, as well as an inorganic mineral matrix. The echinoderm skeleton forms a complex lattice-system, which represents a model structure for naturally inspired engineering in terms of construction, mechanical behaviour and fun...

30 autores para homenajear a Carmelo Di Bartolo, sobre Bió nica y Diseño. Ado Francisco Eduardo Sesti de Azevedo | Miguel Ángel Mila | Maria Daniela Candia Carnevali | Fabrice Vanden Broeck | Tomàs Dorta | Massimo Lumini | Jimena Alarcón Castro | Marina Nova Amilton José Vieira de Arruda | Pedro Maria Lozano Crespo | Giulio Ceppi | Silvia Pizzocar...

Living organisms represent a complex system of morphological and structural solutions that can efficiently inspire the development of original and cutting-edge technological applications. In the history of design, the “learning from nature approach” boasts a long tradition of natural observations and relations with biological research, both oriente...

In species with complex life cycles, early developmental stages are often less thermally tolerant than adults, suggesting that they are key to predicting organismal response to environmental warming. Here we document the optimal and lethal temperatures of larval sea urchins, and we use those to calculate the warming tolerance and the thermal safety...

The diversity of cephalopod species and the differences in morphology and the habitats in which they live, illustrates the ability of this class of molluscs to adapt to all marine environments, demonstrating a wide spectrum of patterns to search, detect, select, capture, handle, and kill prey. Photo-, mechano-, and chemoreceptors provide tools for...