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Welcome to the Mechanics of Biological and Bioinspired Materials laboratory website!
We are a research unit from the Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering department within the Faculty of Applied Science at the University of Liège.
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My thesis in 180 seconds
The mysteries of the cement at the heart of our bones
On March 20, our lab member Astrid Cantamessa participated in an outreach competition aiming to describe a thesis in 3 minutes. Congratulations on her performance!
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Conference
Annual Meeting of IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society & 21st National Day of Biomedical Engineering
On Novemeber 16th and 17th, Astrid presented her work during the Annual Meeting of IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society & the 21st National Day of Biomedical Engineering in Bruxelles, Belgium. She was granted the best poster award by the National Committee of Biomedical Engineering. Congratulation to her!
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Conference
Annual Meeting of the American Society of Bone and Mineral Research
ASBMR 2023
Astrid presented a poster of her work druing the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Bone and Mineral Research and the pre-meeting symposium "Osteocytes in Bone Health and Disease and as Therapeutic Target Cells" in Vancouver, Canada.
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Biological materials
Discrete-IGA
Development of a new computational strategy informed by experimental approaches at multiple length scales, to investigate crack propagation in trabecular bone.
Biological materials
EOS project
Characterization of the interface between hyaline cartilage and subchondral bone in mice in the context of post traumatic osteoarthritis.
Biological materials
Biomechanics of the tendon-bone interface
How is nature facing one of the greatest material mismatch?
Architectured & bioinspired materials
Bioinspired 3D-printed helical composites
Contact us !
Biomat | University of Liège
Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Building B52/3, Room 2/448
Quartier Polytech 1
Allée de la Découverte 9
B-4000 Liège, Belgium
