Metamaterials Lab; Design and Mechanics and Additive Manufacturing of Metamaterials Laboratory at Tec de Mty

NEWS

Dr. Cuan-Urquizo wons prestigious award

Our own Dr. Kike Cuan was part of the team that won the Rómulo Garza 2025 in its ¨Journal article with impact¨ category.
The paper awarded was Evaluation of rheology and printability of 3D printing nutritious food with complex formulations published in the highest ranked journal in the field of 3D printing, i.e. Additive Manufacturing.

Giulia Orsi

Research stay

Andrés Barker

Research intern (oncampus job)

Mauro Bassi

Research stay

Our own Dr. Kike Cuan invited to give a talk to the cool peeps of the ASTRO Lab led by Dr. Acar.
The talk was focused on our efforts in proposing novel metamaterial topologies.

Happy to welcome Valeria!

Valeria joins as project specialist to collaborate with us in the Hybrids metamaterials project. Specifically in charge of experimental characterization.
Valeria recently graduated as Biomed engineering.

The lab got a special stand at the Science Summit 2025!

Happy to welcome (back) Dr. Mario!

Dr. Mario Martínez-Magallanes joins as research fellow to collaboarte in various projects.
Dr. Martínez-Magallanes is well experienced in Additive Manufacturing techonologies and design strategies!

Metamaterials lab 2025!

at Mty campus!

This summer 2023, Metamaterials lab member will reach international conference participations!!
Look at each image below for more info:

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In terms of scientific publications we have been quite successfull recently!
The list of papers accepted since May 2023 is as follows:

Álvarez-Trejo, A., E. Cuan-Urquizo, D. Bhate, and A. Roman-Flores.Mechanical metamaterials with topologies based on curved elements: an overview of design, additive manufacturing and mechanical properties. (accepted in Materials & Design).
Ochoa, O., E. Cuan-Urquizo, A. Álvarez-Trejo, A. Roman-Flores and R. Guerra Silva. “Additively manufactured auxetic metamaterial: Mechanical properties and their directional dependency”(accepted in Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures)
Cuan-Urquizo, E. and R. Guerra Silva, "Fused Filament Fabrication of cellular, lattice and porous mechanical metamaterials: a review", 2023, Virtual and Physical Prototyping, 18(1), e2224300
Chapa, A., E. Cuan-Urquizo, PD Urbina Corona and A. Roman-Flores, "Experimental characterization of the mechanical properties of 3D printed TPU auxetic cellular materials under cyclic compressive loadings" 2023 (accepted in Rapid Prototyping Journal).
Ramírez-Gutiérrez, D. E. Cuan-Urquizo, and R.Q. Fuentes-Aguilar, "Sine-based lattice plates: additive manufacturing and their mechanical properties when loaded out of plane" 2023 (accepted in Rapid Prototyping Journal).
Gómez-Castañeda, M., E. Cuan-Urquizo, AL. Giraldo-Betancur, C. Félix-Martínez, and J.M. Alvarado-Orozco, “Additive manufacturing and mechanical characterization of sinusoidal-based lattice structures: a numerical and experimental approach” (accepted in Progress in Additive Manufacturing)
Rocha-Cuervo, J. J., Uribe-Lam, E., Treviño-Quintanilla, C. D., & Melo-Maximo, D. V. (2023). Sputtering Plasma Effect on Zinc Oxide Thin Films Produced on Photopolymer Substrates. Polymers, 15(10), 2283.

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Majo Betancourt (MCI), nos lleva a ver cómo la naturaleza puede ser usada como fuente de inspiración en la busqueda de soluciones. Lee más aquí

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Amador Chapa (DCI), nos ayuda a entender cuáles son los super-poderes de los (meta)materiales! Puedes leer sobre esto aquí

First blog entry!

(in spanish) qué son los metamateriales?

New talent!

We are very happy to receive MSc students!

Welcome:

Alexa, Majo, Caro, César, Gustavo, Alejandro, Luis Cano and Luis Fuentes!

New talent!

We are very happy to receive new research interns!

Welcome:

Ana Sofía, Andrea, Paola and Brando!

New talent!

We are very happy to receive new research interns under the Tec21 internship scheme!

Welcome:

Rubén Romero, Paulina Ramírez, Andrés Hidalgo, Daniel Merino, Martiza Arreguín, Marial del Ángel, Mauricio Gutiérrez, Alberto Salgado, Ivan Natera and Santiago Hevia!

New paper!

Our MSc stundent Majo Betancourt was a former research intern in the lab and here project consisted in increasing the displacement range in compliant joints.

This has been recently published in the Engineering Science and Technology, an International Journal

Check out the paper here

New paper!

Our PhD stundent Mario Martínez explores the use of fractals in meta-structures!

This has been recently published in the Journal of Materials: Design and applications.

Check out the paper here

Today our MSc student participate in the 51° Congreso de Investigación y Desarrollo with a poster of their research projects:

· A study of variation in the cross-sectional areas of thermoplastic filaments on lattice structures fabricated by fused filament fabrication

Student: Benjamín Moreno Núñez

Advisor and committee: Cecilia Treviño Quintanilla, Esmeralda Uribe Lam, Enrique Cuan Urquizo

· Auxetic Metamaterials for Impact Applications: Exploratory Study of 2D Re-Entrant Honeycombs

Student: Amador Chapa Cárdenas

Advisor and committee: Pedro Daniel Urbina Coronado, Enrique Cuan Urquizo, Armando Román Flores

· Bézier-based metamaterials: synthesis, mechanics and additive manufacturing

Student: Alberto Alvarez Trejo

Advisor and committee: Enrique Cuan Urquizo, Armando Román Flores, Juan Manuel Alvarado Orozco

· Producción y caracterización de películas delgadas de Zn/ZnO obtenidas por PVD depositadas en sustratos poliméricos y su rendimiento bajo condiciones de desgaste

Student: Juan Jesús Rocha Cuervo

Advisor and committee: Esmeralda Uribe Lam, Cecilia Treviño Quintanilla, Dulce Melo-Máximo

· Producción, caracterización y desempeño de películas delgadas de silicio / óxido de silicio en sustratos de acero inoxidable 316L en atmósferas de “Metal Dusting”

Student: Kevin Rueda Castellanos

Advisor and committee: Esmeralda Uribe Lam, Cecilia Treviño Quintanilla, Dulce Melo-Máximo

Congratulations to all!

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