Our Laboratory
Programmable materials are materials able to tune and adapt their morphology, properties, and/or functionalities on demand. Such an ability is the result of a proper combination of material intrinsic behavior and structural organization and is fundamental for developing novel simplified solutions that can adapt themselves to application needs or to varying environmental conditions.
The Laboratory of Programmable Materials and Structures (ProMaSt Lab) aims to achieve a fundamental understanding of the complex interactions between material behavior and geometry. The team exploits this understanding for the engineering of new programmable self-adaptive materials and structures to solve global challenges.Â
To this aim, the research team combine novel theoretical, computational, and experimental methods.
The Team
Prof. Giulia Scalet, Director
Dr. Lorenzo Bonetti, Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Lorenzo studied biomedical engineering at the Polytechnic University of Milan, where he also received a PhD in Materials Science and Engineering, working on biobased stimuli-responsive hydrogels for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine applications. He is working on new approaches to the 3D printing/bioprinting of smart polymers and hydrogels and their characterization.
Dr. Matteo Arricca, Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Matteo studied Civil Engineering at the University of Cagliari, completing his MSc thesis in collaboration with the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He defended his PhD thesis on Finite Strain Chemo-Thermo-Electro-Mechanics with Applications in Mechanobiology in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Brescia, and in collaboration with the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is working on theoretical and computational modeling of the thermo-mechanical, failure and fracture behavior of smart polymers.
