Davide Ruffoni

Nature has optimized creatures' tools. Drawing knowledge from mantis shrimps & employing 3D printing, Ruffoni, Compère et al. design lightweight harpoons relying on environmentally friendly building blocks. @UniversiteLiege @DaviRuffo @alexandra_tits 🦐doi.org/10.1002/ntls.2…

You may consider submitting your abstract to our mini-symposium: Lessons from nature: design of bioinspired architected materials @ 15th World Congress on #Computational #Mechanics #WCCM2022 More info: lnkd.in/egME68Ya F.Libonati; M.Milazzo; @DaviRuffo @amir_zadpoor

I am so happy and proud to finally share my first own research based paper 🦴🔬 We investigated the mysteries of the tendon-bone attachment with high resolution imaging techniques, revealing a very specific arrangement of surface roughness, subchondral channels and cells (1/2)