This week I am at CNPEM in Campinas for two back-to-back meetings, along with experts from diverse fields in materials science, computational physics, and informatics, to discuss the latest research, innovative methodologies, and applications in electronic structure theory and computational
New paper: Consensus effects of social media synthetic influence groups on scale-free networks
Our latest publication of 2025 “Consensus effects of social media synthetic influence groups on scale-free networks” has just appeared in Chaos, Solitons & Fractals. Online platforms for social interactions are an essential part of modern society. With the advance of technology and
XXXVIII Encontro de Física do Norte e Nordeste
Encontro de Física do Norte e Nordeste (North and northeast physics meeting) promoted by the Brazilian Physical Society is the second largest Physics meeting in Brazil, gathering more than 500 researchers from the north and northeast regions of Brazil. In
New publication in Physical Review B – Lévy flight for electrons in graphene in the presence of regions with enhanced spin-orbit coupling
Our latest paper of 2024 “Lévy flight for electrons in graphene in the presence of regions with enhanced spin-orbit coupling” has just appeared in Physical Review B. In this work, we propose an electronic Lévy glass built from graphene nanoribbons
New publication in Physical Review Materials – Length and torsion dependence of thermal conductivity in twisted graphene nanoribbons
Our latest publication “Length and torsion dependence of thermal conductivity in twisted graphene nanoribbons” has just been accepted for publication in Physical Review Materials. In this work we investigate the dependence of the thermal conductivity (TC) of twisted graphene nanoribbons
New publication in ACS Applied Nano Materials – Tuning the thermal conductivity of silicon phononic crystals
Our first paper of 2024 “Tuning the thermal conductivity of silicon phononic crystals via different defect motifs: Implications for thermoelectric devices and photovoltaics” has just been accepted for publication in ACS Applied Nano Materials, where it will be part of
New Ph.D. student – Diego B. Fonseca
This month we officially welcome a new Ph.D. student in the Transport & Nanostructures group. Diego B. Fonseca joins us after completing his undergraduate and M.Sc. degrees at nearby UFRPE, where he was supervised by our collaborator Anderson L. R.
XI Brazilian Meeting on Simulational Physics
This week I am giving a presentation at the XI Brazilian Meeting on Simulational Physics. This eleventh edition will take place at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, where the meeting started a few decades ago, but it also includes a few
M.Sc. defense – Higo Oliveira
Graduate student Higo de Araujo Oliveira, defended his master’s thesis on Thursday (21.09.2023) in a virtual auditorium via google meet. The thesis, entitled “Thermal conductivity calculation in Si membranes: a Homogeneous Non Equilibrium Molecular Dynamics approach”, employed advanced computer simulation techniques
Sabbatical at Sapienza University of Rome
In September I started a sabbatical leave during which I will be at Dipartimento di Fisica of Sapienza Università di Roma. A sabbatical period is an extraordinary opportunity to focus on novel challenging issues while visiting a new institute, and