Dr. Abot is an academician dedicated to the teaching, training, and mentoring of engineering students and to the advancement of integrated sensing using carbon nanotube fibers. He published more than one hundred and sixty technical papers and has been serving as associate editor of the Journal of Carbon Research and in the advisory board or guest editor of Sensors, and the Journal of Composites Science. He served as principal or co-principal investigator in projects funded by NASA, the Department of State, the Department of Defense, Petrobras, and businesses. He served as the director of more than thirty doctoral and masters’ students. He has taught twenty-six different engineering courses and served as academic advisor to hundreds of mechanical engineering and aerospace engineering students. He is also the founder and chief technology officer of IntSensing, a company that provides sensing solutions to the private and public sectors around the world.
Selected Publications
1. Kyabutwa, P., Alyamni, N., Abot, J. L. and Zestos, A. G. Advanced electrochemistry methods using carbon nanotube electrodes for detection of heavy metals in water: A review. Curr. Opin. Electrochem. 54, 101749 (2025).
2. Alyamni, N., Abot, J. L. and Zestos, A. G. Carbon microelectrodes for the measurement of neurotransmitters with fast-scan voltammetry: Methodology and applications. Front. Bioeng. Biotechnol., section Nanobiotechnology 13, 1 (2025).
3. Alyamni, N., Cook, C., Abot, J. L. and Zestos, A. G. Enzyme-modified microelectrodes for measurement of glutamate: Characterization and applications. Electroanal. 37(3) (2025).
4. Abot, J. L., Montanheiro, T. L. A., Pereira, D. de A., Nascimento Jr., S., Nascimento Jr., C. L., Silva, J. R. B. F., Kasama, A. H. and Rade, D. A. Monitoring of static and vibration responses of laminated composite materials using integrated carbon nanotube fibers. Compos. Sci. Technol. 254 110694 (2024).
5. Alyamni, N., Abot, J. L. and Zestos, A. G. Perspective-advances in voltammetric methods for the measurement of biomolecules. ECS Sens. Plus 3 (2): 027001 (2024).
6. Garcia Guerra, I., Tayyarian, T., Rodríguez-Uicab, O. and Abot, J. L. Piezoresistive response of carbon nanotube yarn monofilament composites under axial compression. J. Carbon Res., 9 89 (2023).
7. Binfaris, A., Zestos, A. G. and Abot, J. L. Development of carbon nanotube yarn supercapacitors and energy storage for integrated structural health monitoring. Energies, 16 5736 (2023).
8. Pirmoz, A., Abot, J. L. and Avilés, F. Simulation of mechanical response of carbon nanotube yarns under uniaxial tensile loading. Mech. Mater. 165, 104144 (2022).
9. Rodríguez-Uicab, O., Abot, J. L. and Avilés, F. Electrical resistance sensing of epoxy curing using an embedded carbon nanotube yarn. Sensors 20, 3230 (2020).
10. Anike, J. C., Belay, K. and Abot, J. L. Effect of twist on the electromechanical properties of carbon nanotube yarns. Carbon 142: 491-503 (2019).
