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MASSIMILIANO ZINGALES

Research Area

Active Research fields

The research activities underways involves :

  • Study of the mechanical behavior of biological tissues: Knee ligaments and cardiac valves
  • Mechanics of porous media in presence of anomalous transport
  • Chemomechanical coupling of cell membranes and cAMP
  • Hereditariness of heterogeneous media: Biological tissues and nanocomposites
  • Multiscale methods for the analysis of carbon nanotubes and graphene-based nanocomposites.

Research projects of the last 5 years

  • Participation to the project PON – “R&C” 2007/2013 (PONa3_00273): Mediterranean Center of Human Health and Advanced Biotechnologies (Med-CHHAB). www.chab.center.
  • Coordnator of the local research unit for the project PRIN2015:  A MULTISCALE-MULTIPHYSICS THERMODYNAMICALLY CONSISTENT MODELING FOR ENGINEERING DECIPHERING COLLECTIVE AND SINGLE CELL MECHANiCAL BEHAVIORS, prot.2015WZFLPX.
  • Partecipant to the project PRIN2010-2011: DYNAMICS, STABILITY AND CONTROL OF FLEXIBLE STRUCTURES, prot.2010MBJKSB_008.  

Collaborations

Active cooperation with national/international research group involves:

  • Prof. Oreste Bursi, Università degli Studi di Trento, Italia.
  • Prof. Noel Challamel, Università de Rennes, Metz, Francia.
  • Prof. Enrique Cerda, Università di Santiago, Cile.
  • Prof. Kaushik Dayal, Università Carneige-Mellon, Pittsburgh, U.S.A.
  • Prof. Luca Deseri, Università di Trento, Italia.
  • Prof. Walter Drugan, Università degli Studi di Ann-Harbour, Michigan, U.S.A.
  • Prof. Isaac Elishakoff, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, U.S.A.
  • Prof. Giuseppe Failla, Università degli Studi di Reggio Calabria, Italia.
  • Prof. Massimiliano Fraldi, Università degli Studi di Napoli.
  • Prof. Alfio Grillo, Politecnico di Torino, Italia.
  • Prof. Ridha Hambli, Università di Tolosa, Tolosa, Francia.
  • Prof. David Owen, Università Carneige-Mellon, Pittsburgh, U.S.A.
  • Prof. Anne Robertson, Università di Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, U.S.A.

Active research

The laboratory is equipped with the following instrumentation:

  • Electrodynamic equipments for the mechanical characterization of biological tissues
  • Electrodynamic equipments for the mechanical characterization of discal, dental, vascular and articular prosthesis
  • Atomic force microscopy, Nanoindenters, Nanotensile, Nanotribometer
  • Optical profilometers, micro-particle image correlation, micro digital image correlation
 

Services delivered under the right of third parties

  • Mechanical characterization of biomedical prosthesis compliant with ASTM and ISO codes
  • Morphological and mechanical characterizations of surface coatings
  • Mechanical characterizations of thin films, nanocomposites and nanofibers
  • Fatigue mechanical tests of advanced materials