Education

• B.S. Mechanical Engineering. Instituto Tecnológico de Mérida. 2000.
• M.S. Applied Physics. Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados. 2002.
• Ph.D. Solid Body Mechanics. Florida Atlantic University. 2005.
• Post-Doctorate. Composite Materials. University of Delaware. 2006.

Current research

• Composites and Nanomaterials

ONGOING PROJECTS

• Multifunctional Properties of Hierarchical Composites Based on Carbon Nanostructures. (ONRG/CONACYT)
• Piezoresistivity and Self-Monitoring of Deformation and Damage on Multi-Scale Composites Based on Hybrid Carbon Nanostructures. (CONACYT)
• Mechanical and Fracture Analysis of Fiber-Reinforced Composite Materials.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• “Thermoresistivity of carbon nanostructures and their polymeric nanocomposites”, Review article. F. Avilés. Advanced Materials Interfaces (ISSN: 2196-7350), 2023, 2300218 (17 p). https://doi.org/10.1002/admi.202300218.
• “Piezoimpedance of carbon nanotube yarns coupled with Raman spectroscopy and its implementation for sensing polymerization kinetics”, R. Pech-Pisté, C. Pérez-Aranda, A. Balam, R. Vargas-Coronado, J.V. Cauich-Rodríguez, F. Avilés. Carbon (ISSN:0008-6223), Vol. 213, 2023, 118246 (9 p). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carbon.2023.118246.
• “Thermoresistive properties of multilayer graphene sheet/polypropylene composites using four dissimilar fillers”, C. Medina, A. Balam, F. Avilés. Materials Today Communications (ISSN 2352-4928), Vol. 41, 2024, 110903 (11 pp). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtcomm.2024.110903.
• “Adhesion testing system based on convolutional neural networks for quality inspection of flexible strain sensors”. I. Isaac-Medina, G. Arana, A.C. Castillo-Atoche, J.J. Estrada-López, J. Vázquez-Castillo, F. Avilés, A.A. Castillo-Atoche. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (Electronic ISSN: 1941-0050; Print ISSN: 1551-3203). Vol. 20 (7), 2024, 9235-9243. doi:10.1109/TII.2024.3383547.
• “Mechanical, thermal and physicochemical properties of filaments of poly (lactic acid), polyhydroxyalkanoates and their blend for additive manufacturing”. L.I. Mondragón Herrera, R.F. Vargas-Coronado, H. Carrillo-Escalante, J.V. Cauich-Rodríguez, F. Hernández-Sánchez, C. Velasco-Santos, F. Avilés. Polymers (E-ISSN 2073-4360). Vol. 16(8), 2024, 1062 (19 p). https://doi.org/10.3390/polym16081062.

PATENTS OR TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS

• Francis Avilés-Cetina, Marco Antonio Cen-Puc, José Roberto Bautista-Quijano, Alejandro May-Pat, Gabriel de Jesús Pool-Balam. Fabrication process of an electroconductive composite with high carbon nanotube content with application as a nanostructered thermistor. MX/E/2013/077417. México. (2020).
• Fidel Fernando Gamboa-Perera, Alejandro de Jesús López-Puerto, Francis Avilés-Cetina, José Emilio Corona-Hernández, Andrés Iván Oliva-Arias. Method and apparatus to obtain the natural frequency of vibration and the elastic modulus of multi-layers with nanometric thickness. MX/E/2014/077358. México. (2018).
• Francis Avilés-Cetina, José de Jesús Kú-Herrera. Carbon nanotube coated fibers and production method using an ultrasonic technique. MX/E/2013/071594. México. (2018).

RECOGNITIONS AND AWARDS

• 2003-2021. Member. American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
• 2018-2021. Member. Editorial board. Journal of Engineering Materials and Technology. American Society for Mechanical Engineers.
• 2021. Deputy Editor. Journal of Sandwich Structures and Materials. SAGE Journals.

RECOMMENDED SITES

• Personal site. https://www.cicy.mx/sitios/investigador/dr-francis-aviles-cetina.
• Journal of Sandwich Structures & Materials. https://journals.sagepub.com/home/jsm.
• Journal of Engineering Materials and Technology. http://materialstechnology.asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/journal.aspx.