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Books

 

1. Rodrigo G Amorim, Alexandre R. Rocha and  Amaury de M. Souza . Sensores baseados em Nanotubos de Carbono. In: Wendel Andrade Alves. (Org.). Química Supramolecular e Nanotecnologia. 1ed.: Editora Atheneu, 2014, v. 10, Cap 22 - 447, (2014).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Subimitted Papers
 

 

Publish Papers

 

22. Insights into the detection of mutations and epigenetic markers using diamondoid-functionalized sensors,  Sivaraman, Ganesh ; Amorim, Rodrigo G. ; Scheicher, Ralph H. ; Fyta, Maria,  RSC Adv., 2017, accept paper. 

21. Ferreira, M. S. ; Rocha, C. G. ; Lawlor, J. A. ; Vvenezuela, P. ; Amorim, R. G. ; Rocha, A. R. . Commensurability effect on the electronic structure of carbon nanostructures: Impact on supercell calculations in nanotubes. Europhysics Letters (Print), v. 117, p. 27005-27005p6, 2017.

20. Rodrigo G. Amorim; ALVES, Marcos Verissimo ; MARTINS, A. S. . Anisotropic Electronic Structure and Transport Properties of the H-0 Hyperhoneycomb Lattice. Journal of Physical Chemistry. C, p. 1928-1933, 2017.

19. Nieman, Reed ; DAS, ANITA ; AQUINO, ADÉLIA J.A. ; AMORIM, RODRIGO G. ; MACHADO, FRANCISCO B.C. ; LISCHKA, HANS . Single and double carbon vacancies in pyrene as first models for graphene defects: A survey of the chemical reactivity toward hydrogen. Chemical Physics (Print), v. 482, p. 346-354, 2017.

18. DE SOUZA, FÁBIO A. L. ; AMORIM, RODRIGO G. ; SCOPEL, WANDERLÃ L. ; SCHEICHER, RALPH H. . Electrical detection of nucleotides via nanopores in a hybrid graphene/h-BN sheet. Nanoscale (Print), v. 9, p. 2207-2212, 2017.

17. VERÍSSIMO-ALVES, MARCOS ; AMORIM, RODRIGO G. ; MARTINS, A.'S. . Comment on -Line of Dirac Nodes in Hyperhoneycomb Lattices-. Physical Review Letters, v. 116, p. 249701, 2016.

16. Soumyajyoti Haldar,   Rodrigo G. Amorim,   Biplab Sanyal,   Ralph.H Scheicher and   Alexandre R. Rocha . Energetic stability, STM fingerprints and electronic transport properties of defects in graphene and silicene. RSC Adv., 2016,6, 6702-6708.

 

15.  Sivaraman, Ganesh ; Amorim, Rodrigo G. ; Scheicher, Ralph H. ; Fyta, Maria . Diamondoid-functionalized gold nanogaps as sensors for natural, mutated, and epigenetically modified DNA nucleotides, Nanoscale (Print), v. 8, p. 10105-10112, 2016.

14. Alves, Marcos Verissimo ; Rodrigo G. Amorim ; Martins, A. S. . Comment on 'Line of Dirac nodes in hyperhoneycomb lattices'. Physical Review Letters, 116, 249701,(2016). 

 

13. Rodrigo G. Amorim; Scheicher, R. H. ; W Scopel ; F. A. L. de Souza . Nano-structured interface of graphene and h-BN for sensing applications. Nanotechnology (Bristol. Print), v. 27, p. 365503, 2016.

 

12. Sivaraman, Ganesh ; Amorim, Rodrigo G. ; Scheicher, Ralph H. ; Fyta, Maria . Benchmark investigation of diamondoid-functionalized electrodes for nanopore DNA sequencing. Nanotechnology (Bristol. Print), v. 27, p. 414002, 2016.

11. Amorim, Rodrigo G; Rocha, Alexandre R. ; Scheicher, Ralph H. . Boosting DNA Recognition Sensitivity of Graphene Nanogaps through Nitrogen Edge Functionalization. Journal of Physical Chemistry. C, v. 120, p. 19384?19388-19388, 2016.

10. R.G. Amorim ; SCHEICHER, RALPH H ; J. Prasongkit ; S. Chakraborty ; R. Ahuja ; V. Amornkitbamrung . Highly Sensitive and Selective Gas Detection Based on Silicene. J. Phys. Chem. C, 2015, 119 (29), pp 16934–16940

 

9. AMORIM, RODRIGO G ; PANDEY, R. . Switching Behaviors of Graphene-Boron Nitride Nanotube Heterojunctions. Scientific Reports 5, 12238 (2015)

 

8. Rodrigo G Amorim and Ralph H. Scheicher. Silicene as a new potential DNA sequencing device. Nanotechnology v. 26, p. 154002, (2015).

 

7. Zhong , X. ; Rodrigo G. Amorim et al. . Hybridization effects on the out-of-plane electron tunneling properties of monolayers: is h-BN more conductive than graphene?. Nanotechnology (Bristol. Print), v. 25, p. 1/345703-7, 2014.

 

6. Rodrigo G Amorim et al.,  Confinement effects and why carbon nanotube bundles can work as gas sensors. Nanoscale (Print), v. 5, p. 2798, 2013.

 

5. Rodrigo G. Amorim et al. , Strain- and electric field-induced band gap modulation in nitride nanomembranes. Journal of Physics. Condensed Matter (Print), v. 25, p. 195801-195808, 2013.

 

4. Zhong , X. ; Rodrigo G. Amorim et al. , Electronic structure and quantum transport properties of trilayers formed from graphene and boron nitride. Nanoscale (Print), v. 4, p. 5490-5498, 2012.

 

3. J.E. Padilha ; Rodrigo G. Amorim et al., Energetics and stability of vacancies in carbon nanotubes. Solid State Communications, v. 151, p. 482-486, 2011.

 

2. R.G. Amorim et al., Divacancies in Graphene and Carbon Nanotubes. Nano Letters (Print), v. 7, p. 2459-2462, 2007.

 

1. R.G. Amorim et al., Energetics of phase transitions in BaO through DFT calculations with norm-conserving pseudopotential: LDA vs GGA results. Computational Materials Science, v. 37, p. 349-354, 2006.

 

 

 

Academic Publications 

- Claude Bernard -

“The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel”

PUBLICATIONS

News and Views - Magazines

 

2013

 

1. Rodrigo G. Amorim ; Ralph H. Scheicher . Silicen Kisels svar p grafen. Elektroniktidningen 2013, Sweden, p. 22 - 23, 01 set. 2013.

 

2015

 

1. DNA sequencing: Nanotechnology unravels the

code for life

Nanotechweb

 

2. Combining graphene and nanotubes to make digital switches

Nanowerk

 

3. Researchers Create Graphene-Nanotube Switches for High Speed

ComputingScicasts

 

4. Graphene and boron nitride make a semiconductor junction

Electronics Weekly

 

5. Semiconductor-less Transistors the Goal

EE Times

 

6. Graphene and Carbon Nanotubes Together Produce a Digital Switch

IEEE Spectrum

 

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