My transfer to the Physics Department at Universidade Federal de Pernambuco has just been published in Diário Oficial da União. We have spent six years at the Physics Department of Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, where I made…
Year: 2019
New materials science papers: Diboron-porphyrin monolayer and BiSbTe nanofilms
In the last few weeks we had two papers published in materials science journals: “Diboron-porphyrin monolayer: A new 2D semiconductor” has been published in Computational Materials Science and “Thermoelectric properties of BiSbTe alloy nanofilms produced by DC sputtering: experiments and modeling”…
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TNG @ XXXIV Encontro de Físicos do Norte e Nordeste
The Encontro de Físicos do Norte e Nordeste (North and northeast physics meeting) promoted by the Brazilian Physical Society is the second largest Physics meeting in Brazil, gathering nearly 500 researchers from the north and northeast regions of Brazil. In 2019,…
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2D Materials: from fundamentals to spintronics
Our event 2D Materials: from fundamentals to spintronics begins today at the International Institute of Physics of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte. This three-week event began with a proposal submitted almost two years ago to the International…
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X Brazilian Meeting on Simulational Physics
This week we are in Minas Gerais for the tenth edition of the Brazilian Meeting on Simulational Physics. In this tenth edition the event returns to Minas Gerais and will be held in Belo Horizonte (opening) and Ouro Preto as…
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Conference on Nanophononics, Bridging Statistical Physics, Molecular Modeling and Experiments
This week we are at The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics to deliver an invited talk at the Conference on Nanophononics, Bridging Statistical Physics, Molecular Modeling and Experiments. My talk “Phonon transport in graphene-BN superlattices: Coherence and localization” will focus…
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TNG @ Autumn Meeting 2019 of the Brazilian Physical Society
The Autumn Meeting of the Brazilian Physical Society (previously the Brazilian Condensed Matter Physics Meeting) is the largest Physics meeting in Brazil, gathering nearly 1,000 researchers from Brazil and abroad. In 2019, the event takes place in Aracaju, Sergipe, from 26 to…
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Scientific Reports Top 100 in Physics 2018
Scientific Reports, an online, multidisciplinary, open access journal from the publishers of Nature (Springer Nature Publishing) has released a list of their most highly accessed physics articles in 2018 (#SREPTop100). The list is based on nature.com web analytics, covering accesses from January to December…
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New paper in Carbon – Mechanical, optical and thermal transport properties of graphene-like BC3 and BC6N
Our third publication of 2019 “Outstanding strength, optical characteristics and thermal conductivity of graphene-like BC3 and BC6N semiconductors” has just been accepted for publication in Carbon. Carbon-based 2D materials with honeycomb lattices, such as graphene, polyaniline carbon-nitride, and boron-carbide exhibit exceptional physical properties. Here,…
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Physics education paper accepted in Revista Brasileira de Ensino de Física
My first ever publication in a physics education journal, “Total entropy variation for an object in contact with heat reservoirs: the path to reversibility” has just been accepted for publication in Revista Brasileira de Ensino de Física, published by the…
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