Marcos Reyes-Martinez

Staff Employment

2020-Present: Materials Research Engineer. Materials Science and Engineering Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology
2018-2020: National Research Council (NRC) Fellow. Materials Science and Engineering Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology
2015-2018: Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Chemical and Biological Engineering Department, Princeton University

Areas of Expertise

My research explores how structure at multiple scales governs the mechanical properties and performance of advanced polymeric materials. By applying innovative ways to measure and engineer mechanical response, my work supports the design of resilient, adapative, and impact-resistant systems.

Research Interests:

Mechanical metamaterials and impact mitigation
Ultrasound-based methods for non-destructive mechanical property mapping
Fracture of complex networks

Awards

NIST Material Measurement Laboratory Accolade for Service in Professional Organizations (2021)
The National Academies National Research Council (NRC) Associateship (2018)
Office of the Director of National Intelligence IC Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (2015)

Publications

An autonomous design algorithm to experimentally realize three-dimensionally isotropic auxetic network structures without compromising density

May 29, 2024

Author(s)

Meng Shen, Marcos Reyes-Martinez, Ami Ahure Powell, Mark Iadicola, Abhishek Sharma, Fabian Byléhn, Nidhi Pashine, Edwin P. Chan, Christopher Soles, Heinrich Jaeger, Juan de Pablo

Auxetic materials have a negative Poisson's ratio and are of significant interest in applications that include impact mitigation, membrane separations and

Topology as a limiting factor in mechanical properties for disordered networks

March 5, 2024

Author(s)

Marcos Reyes-Martinez, Edward Barron III, Dohgyu Hwang, Christopher Soles, Michael Bartlett, Edwin Chan

Disordered networks are ubiquitous in both the natural and synthetic worlds. Depending on the application, some are extremely soft while others are rigid

Pruning the Mechanical Impedance of Three-Dimensional Disordered Networks

February 21, 2022

Author(s)

Marcos Reyes-Martinez, Edwin Chan, Christopher Soles, Michael Riley, Endao Han, Nidhi Pashine, Kieran Murphy, Heinrich Jaeger, Sidney Nagel, Daniel Reid, Meng Shen, Juan J. de Pablo

Disordered networks, comprised of random arrangements of bonds and nodes, have emerged as materials with the unique ability for independent control over the

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Patents (2018-Present)

Potential applications for impact mitigation.

Inverse Design Machine And Making A Designer Impact-Mitigating Architectured Isotropic Structure

NIST Inventors

Christopher Soles and Marcos Reyes-Martinez

This invention is a tool for designing structured materials with a desired set of mechanical properties arising from an aperiodic arrangement of elastic elements for impact mitigation applications. You input a desired mechanical response for the final structure, and the algorithm that drives the

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Staff Employment

2020-Present: Materials Research Engineer. Materials Science and Engineering Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology
2018-2020: National Research Council (NRC) Fellow. Materials Science and Engineering Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology
2015-2018: Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Chemical and Biological Engineering Department, Princeton University

Areas of Expertise

Marcos Reyes-Martinez (Fed)

Materials Research Engineer

Awards

Publications

Patents (2018-Present)