Angelo Rosario Carotenuto
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Angelo Rosario Carotenuto explores the frontiers of mechanical instability in living systems, bridging soft matter physics and biomechanics. His research centers on how buckling phenomena—both compressive and tensile—govern the behavior of biological tissues, from cellular tensegrities to human fingers. In his highly cited 2018 work, "Buckling soft tensegrities: Fickle elasticity and configurational switching in living cells" (42 citations), Carotenuto demonstrated how cytoskeletal prestress and buckling instabilities enable cells to switch between mechanical states, offering a new lens on cellular mechanotransduction. More recently, his 2023 study, "Bimodal buckling governs human fingers’ luxation" (3 citations), broke new ground by identifying tensile buckling—a counterintuitive instability only recently discovered—in a living structure for the first time. This work reveals how equilibrium bifurcations can serve as a stress-shielding mechanism to prevent tissue failure. Carotenuto’s contributions are reshaping our understanding of how nature exploits buckling for resilience and function, with implications for tissue engineering and soft robotics. His ability to connect theoretical mechanics with biological reality marks him as a rising voice in the field of biomechanics.
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- 2Bimodal buckling governs human fingers’ luxation3 citations · 2023