PECH CANUL, MARTIN IGNACIO

Dr. Martin I. Pech-Canul is a full-time research professor with the Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute (CINVESTAV). As a former Fulbright-Garcia Robles Scholar, he got his Ph.D. degree (1999) in Materials Science and Engineering at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in Worcester, Massachusetts. He has published 130 papers in international journals (JCR) and 130 articles in international conferences. He has been invited to give keynote and plenary lectures on composites and recycling materials to produce composites. He has organized several sessions on MMCs at TMS and MS&T conferences.

His research interests include wettability and infiltration phenomena for manufacturing aluminum matrix composites by the pressureless infiltration method. He has fostered using agricultural and industrial wastes to develop metal matrix composites, including fly ash and rice-hull ash. Has developed a synthesis route under the name of hybrid system chemical vapor deposition (HYSY-CVD) and hybrid system chemical vapor infiltration (HYSY-CVI) to develop silicon nitride (Si3N4) and silicon oxynitride (Si2N2O) and other advanced ceramics. This processing route has also been used to synthesize topaz for potential applications in dosimetry. Currently, his work encompasses the processing and characterization of topaz/corundum composites, also intended for dosimetry applications, and of Al/MoSi2/SiC composites for thermal applications.

Since November 2021, Dr. M. I. Pech-Canul became an Editorial Board Member of Synthesis and Sintering Journal. He is also a reviewer for several Elsevier and Springer Journals and is a member of the Advisory Board of some journals, including Elsevier´s Heliyon, in the Materials Science field.

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0449-1981
Web of Science Researcher ID: E-3419-2018