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Full Professor of Solid and Structural Mechanics
Dept. of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering
University of Trento, Italy
Founder of the Laboratory of Bio-Inspired Nanomechanics “Giuseppe Maria Pugno” at Politecnico di Torino;
Biographical Sketch:
Nicola Maria Pugno (born January 4, 1972 in Pavia, Italy) is an Italian scientist working in the area of bio-inspired nanomechanics. He is currently a Professor of Solid and Structural Mechanics at the Politecnico di Torino in Turin, Italy, where in addition he is the founder and head of the Laboratory of Bio-Inspired Nanomechanics “Giuseppe Maria Pugno” and leader of the Bio-inspired Nanomechanics Research Group (BIONANOMECH Group). After completing a Master Degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1995, Prof. Pugno went on to pursue his Ph.D. in Solid and Structural Mechanics, which he received in 1998, and a second Degree in Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics, completed in 2004 and is currently following a Ph.D. in Biology. Beyond Turin, Prof. Pugno has spent a significant amount of time as a visiting scholar or professor in foreign institutions, including Northwestern University, the Max Planck Institute, the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Florida State University, Brown University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Cambridge University. His recent research has focused on nanoelectromechanical systems, ultra-strong nanotube bundles (e.g. space elevator cables), (Wikipedia article)
Education (Torino):
October 1990 - July 1995: Master Degree in Mechanical Engineering, 110/110 cum laude
December 1995 - December 1998: Ph.D. Solid and Structural Mechanics (Mathematical Foundations of Fracture and Adhesion)
October 2000 - April 2004: Master Degree in Theoretical Physics and Astrophisics, 110/110 cum laude
Current: Ph.D in Biology (Learning Solid and Structural Mechanics from Spiders)
Teaching Activity (Politecnico di Torino):
From 1996 to 2001, Assistant to the Course of “Structural and Solid Mechanics”
Since 2001 up to now, Lecturer of “Structural and Solid Mechanics”
Since 2004 up to now, Lecturer of “Structural and Solid Bio- & Nano-Mechanics”
Since 2010 up to now, Lecturer of the advanced course “Bio-Inspired Advanced Nanomechanics
Visiting Scholar/professor (Nanomechanics):
August 2003 – February 2004: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA (Prof. H. Espinosa).
August 2004: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA (Prof. R. Ruoff)
May 2005: Max Planck Institute, Stuttgart, Germany (Prof. H. Gao).
July-September 2005: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece (Prof. E. Aifantis).
April-May 2007: Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA (Nobel Laureate H. Kroto).
May 2009 (first part): Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA (Prof. H. Gao).
May 2009, June 2011, April 2012, November 2012: Massachussetts Institute of Technology (Prof. M. Buehler).
June 2009 (first part): Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK, (Prof. A. Windle).
June 2009 and May 2012: Centre for Advanced Photonics and Electronics, Cambridge, UK (Prof. A. Ferrari).
December 2012: State University of Campinas – UNICAMP, Campinas, SP – Brazil (Prof. D. Galvao).
Awards:
European Research Council Consolidator Grant Ideas 2011 (Bio-inspired hierarchical super nanomaterials)
For Science Popularization: First Place of the first edition of the Giovedì Scienza Prize
Editorial Board and Referee:
Editorial Board member for 41 Int. Journals, e.g. Journal of Adhesion (Taylor and Francis) and BioNanoScience (Springer); referee for about 100 Int. Journals, e.g. Journal of the Mechanics of Physics of Solids and Advanced Materials; referee for 10 Institutions, e.g. National Science Foundation and European Research Council.
Publications:
See http://areeweb.polito.it/ricerca/bionanomech/publications.htm
About 400 papers published in international journals, international volumes, international or national conference proceedings on Structural-, Solid-, Fracture- Bio- and especially Nano-Mechanics.
Selected Publications:
N. Pugno, The design of self-collapsed super-strong nanotube bundles. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids (2010), 58, 1397-1410.
J. Zang, Q. Wang, Q. Tu, S. Ryu, N. Pugno, M. Buehler, X. Zhao, Multifunctionality and control of the crumpling and unfolding of large-area graphene, Nature Materials (2013)
Nicola M. Pugno and James A. Elliott, “Buckling of peapods, fullerenes and nanotubes”, Physica E, Vol. 44, pp. 944-948, 2012,
doi:10.1016/j.physe.2011.12.024
ABSTRACT: In this paper, the buckling under an applied external pressure and the self-buckling of nanostructures, such as peapods, nanotubes and fullerenes, is numerically treated with Molecular Dynamics simulations and compared with theoretical calculations. The self-buckling is due to the interaction among the nanostructures caused by the surface energy; it is peculiar to the nanoscale and does not have a macroscopiic counterpart. Atomistic simulations confirm that the influence on a single nanostructure from the surrounding nanostructures in a crystal, is nearly identical to that of a liquid with surface tension equal to the surface energy of the solid.
Qiang Chen and Nicola M. Pugno, “In-plane elastic buckling of hierarchical honeycomb materials”, European Journal of Mechaics A/Solids, Vol. 34, pp. 120-129, 2012
ABSTRACT: In this paper, we study the elastic buckling of a new class of honeycomb materials with hierarchical architecture, which is often observed in nature. Employing the topedown approach, the virtual buckling stresses and corresponding strains for each cell wall at level n _ 1 are calculated from those at level n; then, comparing these virtual buckling stresses of all cell walls, the real local buckling stress is deduced; also, the progressive failure of the hierarchical structure is studied. Finally, parametric analyses reveal influences of some key parameters on the local buckling stress and strength-to-density ratio; meanwhile the constitutive behaviors and energy-absorption properties, with increasing hierarchy n, are calculated. The results show the possibility to tailor the elastic buckling properties at each hierarchical level, and could thus have interesting applications, e.g., in the design of multiscale energy-absorption honeycomb light materials.
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