Rodrigo Bernal

Associate Professor - Mechanical Engineering

Please see labs.utdallas.edu/nml

972-883-4709
ECSW 4.355E
Nanomechanical Multiphysics Lab
ORCID

Currently accepting undergraduate and graduate students

Mechanical Engineering

Professional Preparation

Postdoctoral Fellow - Mechanical Engineering
University of Pennsylvania - 2016

Ph.D. - Mechanical Engineering
Northwestern University - 2014

Research Areas

Mechanical properties of nanomaterials

Multiphysics phenomena at the nanoscale

MEMS and NEMS

Electron Microscopy

Publications

Nanoscale Adhesion and Material Transfer at 2D MoS2–MoS2 Interfaces Elucidated by In Situ Transmission Electron Microscopy and Atomistic Simulations 2024 - Journal Article

Electromigration Lifetime of Penta-Twinned Gold Nanowires: Implications for Flexible Electronics 2024 - Journal Article

Biolistic delivery of liposomes protected in metal-organic frameworks 2023 - Journal Article

Influence of surface roughness on the transient interfacial phenomena in laser impact welding 2022 - Journal Article

High-throughput tensile testing of silver nanowires 2022 - Journal Article

Current density at failure of twinned silver nanowires 2022 - Journal Article

On the application of Weibull statistics for describing strength of micro and nanostructures 2021 - Journal Article

Visualization of nanoscale wear mechanisms in ultrananocrystalline diamond by in-situ TEM tribometry 2019 - Journal Article