
RODRIGO A. BERNAL

bernal@utdallas.edu
Phone: 972-883-4709
Mail Box: ECW 31
Office: ECSW 4.355E
800 West Campbell Rd.
Mailstop: ECW 31
Richardson, TX 75080-3021
ASSociate PROFESSOR
Education
Postdoc. University of Pennsylvania, 2016.
PhD Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, 2014
Research Interests
Mechanical properties of nanomaterials, Multiphysics phenomena at the nanoscale, Nanoscale metrology, MEMS and NEMS, Electron Microscopy
Five Most Recent Journal Publications, Book Chapters, and Books
- Waliullah, M., A.-M.A. Hossain, B. Ojeda, N. Muzaffar, and R.A. Bernal, “Electromigration Lifetime of Penta-Twinned Gold Nanowires: Implications for Flexible Electronics“. ACS Applied Nano Materials 7, no. 7 (2024): 6906-6915. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsanm.3c05847
- Waliullah, M. and R.A. Bernal, “Adhesive contact mechanics of penta-twinned nanowires”. Extreme Mechanics Letters 66, no. (2023): 102118. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eml.2023.102118
- Kumari, S., Y.H. Wijesundara, T.S. Howlett, M. Waliullah, F.C. Herbert, A. Raja, I. Trashi, R.A. Bernal, and J.J. Gassensmith, “Biolistic delivery of liposomes protected in metal-organic frameworks“. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. (PNAS) 120, no. 11 (2023): e2218247120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2218247120
- Bhuiyan, M.E.H., C. Wang, M.J. Arellano-Jimenez, M. Waliullah, M. Quevedo-Lopez, R.A. Bernal, and M. Minary-Jolandan, “Electrical property-microstructure of copper interconnects printed by localized pulsed electrodeposition (l-PED)“. Materials Letters 330, no. (2023): 133364. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matlet.2022.133364
- Waliullah, M. and R.A. Bernal, “Current density at failure of twinned silver nanowires“. Nanotechnology 33, no. 30 (2022): 305706. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6528/ac64af