Antonio Rinaldi

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors outline the current perspective about microbial fuel cells (MFCs) by focusing on the recent major advances in the areas of materials and engineering, and highlight the promising devices to address sustainability concerns both in terrestrial and space applications.

TL;DR: A novel (scalable) electrospinning process was developed to fabricate bio-inspired multiscale three-dimensional scaffolds endowed with a controlled multimodal distribution of fiber diameters and geared towards soft tissue engineering.

TL;DR: In the case of nanocrystalline nickel pillars, for which there is a fixed microstructural length scale set by the grain size, the smaller is still stronger.

TL;DR: The present study demonstrates that the differentiation of cardiac progenitor cells to cardiomyocytes does not occur when cells are challenged with soluble growth factors alone, but requires strictly controlled procedures for the isolation of a progenitors cell population and the artifactual recreation of a microenvironment critically featured by a fine‐tuned combination of specific biological and physical factors.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an in-depth analysis of two-dimensional disordered lattices of statistical damage mechanics for the study of quasi-brittle materials and demonstrate that the introduction of a new defect in the microstructure produces a perturbation of the microscopic random fields according to a principle of maximum energy dissipation.