Dr. Alexandre Pereira dos Santos

Profile

Academic positionLecturer, Assistant Professor, Researcher
Research fieldsTheoretical Physics
Keywordselectrolytes, electroosmosis, adsorption, computer simulations, membranes
Honours and awards

2013: Brazilian Physics Society - Best Phd thesis of the year in Brazil

: CAPES - Honour mention in Best Phd thesis of year in Brazil

: Nortwestern University Eshbach Visiting Professor Scholarship

Current contact address

CountryBrazil
CityPorto Alegre
InstitutionUniversidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)
InstituteInstituto de Fisica

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Roland R. NetzFachbereich Physik, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin
Start of initial sponsorship01/04/2017

Programme(s)

2016CAPES-Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2024Pogharian, Nicholas and Dos Santos, Alexandre P and Ehlen, Ali and Olvera de la Cruz, Monica: Electric fields near undulating dielectric membranes. In: The Journal of Chemical Physics, 160, 2024,
2024Scalfi, Laura and Lehmann, Louis and Dos Santos, Alexandre P and Becker, Maximilian R and Netz, Roland R: Propensity of hydroxide and hydronium ions for the air--water and graphene--water interfaces from ab initio and force field simulations. In: The Journal of Chemical Physics, 161, 2024,
2024Arfan, Muhammad and Telles, Igor M and dos Santos, Alexandre P: Strong attraction between like-charged metal nanoparticles mediated by multivalent counterions. In: Journal of Molecular Liquids, 401, 2024, 124527
2023Telles, Igor M and Arfan, Muhammad and Dos Santos, Alexandre P: Effects of electrostatic coupling and surface polarization on polyelectrolyte brush structure. In: The Journal of Chemical Physics, 158, 2023,
2023Dos Santos, AP and Jim{\'e}nez-{\'A}ngeles, F and Ehlen, A and Olvera de la Cruz, M: Modulation of ionic conduction using polarizable surfaces. In: Physical Review Research, 5, 2023, 043174
2023Colla, Thiago and Telles, Igor M and Arfan, Muhammad and Dos Santos, Alexandre P and Levin, Yan: Spiers Memorial Lecture: Towards understanding of iontronic systems: electroosmotic flow of monovalent and divalent electrolyte through charged cylindrical nanopores. In: Faraday Discussions, 246, 2023, 11--46
2022Telles, Igor M and Levin, Yan and Dos Santos, Alexandre P: Reversal of electroosmotic flow in charged nanopores with multivalent electrolyte. In: Langmuir, 38, 2022, 3817--3823
2021Telles, Igor M and Dos Santos, Alexandre P: Electroosmotic flow grows with electrostatic coupling in confining charged dielectric surfaces. In: Langmuir, 37, 2021, 2104--2110
2021Bombardelli, Rog{\'e}rio K and Telles, Igor M and Dos Santos, Alexandre P and Levin, Yan: Electroosmotic flow in polarizable charged cylindrical nanopores. In: The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 125, 2021, 11091--11098
2021Telles, Igor M and Bombardelli, Rogerio K and dos Santos, Alexandre P and Levin, Yan: Simulations of electroosmotic flow in charged nanopores using Dissipative Particle Dynamics with Ewald summation. In: Journal of Molecular Liquids, 336, 2021, 116263
2020Dos Santos, Alexandre P and Uematsu, Yuki and Rathert, Alexander and Loche, Philip and Netz, Roland R: Consistent description of ion-specificity in bulk and at interfaces by solvent implicit simulations and mean-field theory. In: The Journal of Chemical Physics, 153, 2020,
2020Palaia, Ivan and Telles, Igor M and Dos Santos, Alexandre P and Trizac, Emmanuel: Electroosmosis as a probe for electrostatic correlations. In: Soft Matter, 16, 2020, 10688--10696
2020Bakhshandeh, Amin and Dos Santos, Alexandre P and Levin, Yan: Interaction between charge-regulated metal nanoparticles in an electrolyte solution. In: The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 124, 2020, 11762--11770
2020Malossi, Rodrigo M{\'o}r and Girotto, Matheus and Dos Santos, Alexandre P and Levin, Yan: Simulations of electrolyte between charged metal surfaces. In: The Journal of Chemical Physics, 153, 2020,
2019Bakhshandeh, Amin and Dos Santos, Alexandre P and Diehl, Alexandre and Levin, Yan: Isothermal adsorption of polyampholytes on charged nanopatterned surfaces. In: The Journal of chemical physics, 151, 2019,
2019Dos Santos, Alexandre P and Levin, Yan: Like-Charge Attraction between Metal Nanoparticles in a 1∶ 1 Electrolyte Solution. In: Physical review letters, 122, 2019, 248005
2018Dos Santos, Alexandre P and Netz, Roland R: Dielectric boundary effects on the interaction between planar charged surfaces with counterions only. In: The Journal of chemical physics, 148, 2018,
2018Dos Santos, Alexandre P and Levin, Yan: Effective charges and zeta potentials of oil in water microemulsions in the presence of Hofmeister salts. In: The Journal of Chemical Physics, 148, 2018,
2018Bakhshandeh, Amin and Dos Santos, Alexandre P and Levin, Yan: Efficient simulation method for nano-patterned charged surfaces in an electrolyte solution. In: Soft Matter, 14, 2018, 4081--4086
2018Girotto, Matheus and Malossi, Rodrigo M and Dos Santos, Alexandre P and Levin, Yan: Lattice model of ionic liquid confined by metal electrodes. In: The Journal of chemical physics, 148, 2018,
2018Schlaich, Alexander and Dos Santos, Alexandre P and Netz, Roland R: Simulations of nanoseparated charged surfaces reveal charge-induced water reorientation and nonadditivity of hydration and mean-field electrostatic repulsion. In: Langmuir, 35, 2018, 551--560
2017Tergolina, Vinicius B and Dos Santos, Alexandre P: Effect of dielectric discontinuity on a spherical polyelectrolyte brush. In: The Journal of Chemical Physics, 147, 2017,
2017Colla, Thiago and Nunes Lopes, Lucas and Dos Santos, Alexandre P: Ionic size effects on the Poisson-Boltzmann theory. In: The Journal of Chemical Physics, 147, 2017,
2017Girotto, Matheus and Colla, Thiago and Dos Santos, Alexandre P and Levin, Yan: Lattice model of an ionic liquid at an electrified interface. In: The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 121, 2017, 6408--6415
2017Dos Santos, Alexandre P and Girotto, Matheus and Levin, Yan: Simulations of Coulomb systems confined by polarizable surfaces using periodic Green functions. In: The Journal of chemical physics, 147, 2017,
2017Girotto, Matheus and Dos Santos, Alexandre P and Levin, Yan: Simulations of ionic liquids confined by metal electrodes using periodic Green functions. In: The Journal of Chemical Physics, 147, 2017,
2016Dos Santos, Alexandre P and Bakhshandeh, Amin and Diehl, Alexandre and Levin, Yan: Adsorption isotherms of charged nanoparticles. In: Soft Matter, 12, 2016, 8528--8533
2016Colla, Thiago and Girotto, Matheus and Dos Santos, Alexandre P and Levin, Yan: Charge neutrality breakdown in confined aqueous electrolytes: Theory and simulation. In: The Journal of chemical physics, 145, 2016,
2016Girotto, Matheus and Dos Santos, Alexandre P and Levin, Yan: Interaction of charged colloidal particles at the air--water interface. In: The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 120, 2016, 5817--5822
2016{\v{S}}amaj, Ladislav and Dos Santos, Alexandre P and Levin, Yan and Trizac, Emmanuel: Mean-field beyond mean-field: the single particle view for moderately to strongly coupled charged fluids. In: Soft Matter, 12, 2016, 8768--8773
2016dos Santos, Alexandre P and Girotto, Matheus and Levin, Yan: Simulations of Coulomb systems with slab geometry using an efficient 3D Ewald summation method. In: The Journal of chemical physics, 144, 2016,
2016Dos Santos, Alexandre P and Girotto, Matheus and Levin, Yan: Simulations of polyelectrolyte adsorption to a dielectric like-charged surface. In: The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 120, 2016, 10387--10393
2015dos Santos, Alexandre P and Levin, Yan: Electrolytes between dielectric charged surfaces: Simulations and theory. In: The Journal of Chemical Physics, 142, 2015,
2015Bakhshandeh, Amin and dos Santos, Alexandre P and Diehl, Alexandre and Levin, Yan: Interaction between random heterogeneously charged surfaces in an electrolyte solution. In: The Journal of chemical physics, 142, 2015,
2014dos Santos, Alexandre P and Figueiredo, Wagner and Levin, Yan: Ion specificity and micellization of ionic surfactants: A monte carlo study. In: Langmuir, 30, 2014, 4593--4598
2014Levin, Yan and dos Santos, Alexandre P: Ions at hydrophobic interfaces. In: Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 26, 2014, 203101
2014Girotto, Matheus and dos Santos, Alexandre P and Pakter, Renato and Levin, Yan: Reply to “Comment on ‘Vortex distribution in a confining potential’”. In: Physical Review E, 90, 2014, 026102
2014Girotto, Matheus and dos Santos, Alexandre P and Colla, Thiago and Levin, Yan: Yukawa particles in a confining potential. In: The Journal of Chemical Physics, 141, 2014,
2013dos Santos, Alexandre P and Levin, Yan: Adsorption of cationic polyions onto a hydrophobic surface in the presence of Hofmeister salts. In: Soft Matter, 9, 2013, 10545--10549
2013dos Santos, Alexandre P and Levin, Yan: Surface and interfacial tensions of Hofmeister electrolytes. In: Faraday Discussions, 160, 2013, 75--87
2013Girotto, Matheus and Dos Santos, Alexandre P and Levin, Yan: Vortex distribution in a confining potential. In: Physical Review E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics, 88, 2013, 032118
2012Colla, Thiago E and dos Santos, Alexandre P and Levin, Yan: Equation of state of charged colloidal suspensions and its dependence on the thermodynamic route. In: The Journal of chemical physics, 136, 2012,
2012dos Santos, Alexandre P and Levin, Yan: Ions at the water--oil interface: interfacial tension of electrolyte solutions. In: Langmuir, 28, 2012, 1304--1308
2012dos Santos, Alexandre P and Levin, Yan: Polarizable surfaces: Weak and strong coupling regimes. In: arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.8381, 2012,
2012Diehl, Alexandre and Dos Santos, Alexandre P and Levin, Yan: Surface tension of an electrolyte--air interface: a Monte Carlo study. In: Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 24, 2012, 284115
2011dos Santos, Alexandre P and Bakhshandeh, Amin and Levin, Yan: Effects of the dielectric discontinuity on the counterion distribution in a colloidal suspension. In: The Journal of chemical physics, 135, 2011,
2011Dos Santos, Alexandre P and Levin, Yan: Ion specificity and the theory of stability of colloidal suspensions. In: Physical Review Letters, 106, 2011, 167801
2011Bakhshandeh, Amin and Dos Santos, Alexandre P and Levin, Yan: Weak and strong coupling theories for polarizable colloids and nanoparticles. In: Physical review letters, 107, 2011, 107801
2010dos Santos, Alexandre P and Diehl, Alexandre and Levin, Yan: Colloidal charge renormalization in suspensions containing multivalent electrolyte. In: The Journal of chemical physics, 132, 2010,
2010dos Santos, Alexandre P and Levin, Yan: Surface tensions and surface potentials of acid solutions. In: The Journal of chemical physics, 133, 2010,
2010dos Santos, Alexandre P and Diehl, Alexandre and Levin, Yan: Surface tensions, surface potentials, and the Hofmeister series of electrolyte solutions. In: Langmuir, 26, 2010, 10778--10783
2009dos Santos, Alexandre P and Diehl, Alexandre and Levin, Yan: Electrostatic correlations in colloidal suspensions: Density profiles and effective charges beyond the Poisson--Boltzmann theory. In: The Journal of chemical physics, 130, 2009,
2009Levin, Yan and Dos Santos, Alexandre P and Diehl, Alexandre: Ions at the air-water interface: an end to a hundred-year-old mystery?. In: Physical review letters, 103, 2009, 257802