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Current position: post-doc at Dr. Kyeongjae (KJ) Cho’s group - Department of Materials Science and Engineering - UTD

Project: Mechanics of Nanostructures

Research Interests

 

Education & Academic Experience Abroad

 

Publications

       Peer-Reviewed Papers:

 

10. Ali E. Aliev, J. Oh, M. E. Kozlov, A. A. Kuznetsov, S. Fang, Alexandre F. Fonseca, R. Ovalle, M. D. Lima, M. H. Haque, Y. N. Gartstein, M. Zhang, A. A. Zakhidov and Ray H. Baughman,

“Giant Stroke, Superelastic Carbon Nanotube Aerogel Muscles”

Science 323, 1575-1578 (2009).

 

9. Vitor R. Coluci, Alexandre F. Fonseca, D. S. Galvão and C. Daraio,

“Entanglement and the nonlinear elastic behavior of forests of coiled carbon nanotubes”

Physical Review Letters 100, 086807 (2008).

 

8. Alexandre F. Fonseca, C. P. Malta and D. S. Galvão,

“Is it possible to grow amorphous normal nanosprings ?”

Nanotechnology 18, 435606 (2007).

 

7. Alexandre F. Da Fonseca, C. P. Malta and D. S. Galvão,

“Mechanical properties of amorphous nanosprings”

Nanotechnology 17, 5620-5626 (2006).

 

6. Alexandre F. Da Fonseca, C. P. Malta and D. S. Galvão,

“Elastic properties of nanowires”

Journal of Applied Physics 99, 094310 (2006).

 

5. Alexandre F. Da Fonseca, C. P. Malta and M. A. M. de Aguiar,

“Resonant helical deformations in nonhomogeneous Kirchhoff filaments”

Physica A 352, 547-557 (2005).

 

4. Alexandre F. Da Fonseca and Douglas S. Galvão,

“Mechanical properties of nanosprings”

Physical Review Letters 92, 175502 (2004).

 

3. Alexandre F. Da Fonseca and M. A. M. de Aguiar,

“Solving the boundary value problem for finite Kirchhoff rods”

Physica D 181, 53-69 (2003).

 

2. Alexandre F. Fonseca and M. A. M. de Aguiar,

“Near equilibrium dynamics of nonhomogeneous Kirchhoff filaments in viscous media”

Physical Review E 63, 016611 (2001).

 

1. Alexandre F. Fonseca, M. V. Mesquita, A. R. Vasconcellos and R. Luzzi,

“Informational-statistical thermodynamics of a complex system”

Journal of Chemical Physics 112, 3967-3979 (2000).

 

       Peer-Reviewed Proceeding Papers:

 

4. Vitor R. Coluci, Alexandre F. Fonseca, D. S. Galvão and C. Daraio,

“Entanglement and the nonlinear elastic behavior of forests of coiled carbon nanotubes”

MRS Spring Proceedings Symposium P Volume 1081E, art. n. 1081-P08-24, March 24 – 28, San Francisco, EUA (2008).

 

3. Alexandre F. Da Fonseca, D. S. Galvão and C. P. Malta,

“Elastic properties of normal and binormal helical nanowires”

MRS Fall Proceedings Symposium Q Volume 963E, art. n. 0963-Q20-27, November 30 – December 06, Boston, EUA (2006).

 

2. Alexandre F. Da Fonseca, D. S. Galvão and C. P. Malta,

“Binormal nanohelices”

MRS Fall Proceedings Symposium Z Volume 903E, art. n. 0903-Z14-33, November 28 – December 02, Boston, EUA (2005).

 

1. Alexandre F. Da Fonseca, C. P. Malta and M. A. M. de Aguiar,

“Effects of sequence-dependent elastic properties of tandemly repeated DNA”

Proceedings of the 12th International IEEE Workshop on Nonlinear Dynamics of Electronic Systems, pp. 154-157, May 9–13, Évora, Portugal (2004).

 

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Contac information:

Material Science and Engineering Department – University of Texas at Dallas, NSERL

800 West Campbell Road RL10

Richardson, TX 75080

E-mail: alexandre.fonseca “at” utdallas.edu