FACULTY PROFILES

Ana C. Martinez

Research Assistant Professor
Metallurgical, Materials and Biomedical Engineering (MMBME)

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Office Room: 3.101
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Email: acmartinezm@utep.edu

Bio

Dr. Martinez is an Assistant Professor of Research specializing in materials for energy storage and conversion for a variety of applications.

Awards and Honors

First grant as lead PI during the fiscal year 2023–2024 - Pioneering Researchers Reception from The University of Texas at El Paso (01/29/2025)
Feature in ACS’s Energy Letters: Women Scientists at the Forefront of Energy Research - ACS’s Energy Letters (01/01/2024-01/31/2024)
Battery Young Research Award - Battery Innovation Days event (11/01/2021-11/30/2021)
Erasmus Mundus grant for the Latin-American region - The European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) (01/01/2015-12/31/2015)

Education

Ph D in Chemistry of solids and materials science, Industrial PhD between the Renault–Nissan–Mitsubishi Alliance and Université de Picardie Jules Verne (2021)
MS in Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion, Université de Toulouse Paul Sabatier / Warsaw University of Technology / Universidad de Córdoba / Université de Picardie Jules Verne (2017)
B.Eng. in Nanotechnology Engineering, Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro (2015)

Publications

3D Printing of Highly Porous Polypropylene Separators for Lithium‐Ion Batteries Using Fused Deposition Modeling and Thermally Induced Phase Separation Advanced Materials Technologies (2025), Abraham Enchinton, Ana C. Martinez Maciel, Alexis Maurel, Katherine R. Gonzalez, Christian A. Fernandez, Sivasai Balivada, Laura C. Merril, Jorge A. Cardenas, Stéphane Panier.
Electrochemical Performance of Layered Honeycomb Na2(Ni2–xCox)TeO6 (x = 0, 0.10, 0.25) Oxides as Sodium-Ion Battery Cathodes Inorganic Chemistry 64 17 (2025), Yohannes W. Getahun, Ana C. Martinez Maciel, Mario Rodriguez, Alexis Maurel, Daisy Lopez, Eunja Kim, Graham King, Harikrishnan Nair.
3D printed polymer gaskets for custom-form batteries Journal of Power Sources Advances (2025), Jorge Cardenas, Laura C. Merrill, Alexis Maurel, Ana C. Martinez Maciel, .
3D Printing of Lattice-Structured Hard Carbon Negative Electrodes for Sodium-Ion Batteries Using Vat Photopolymerization Rapid Prototyping (2025), S. Bakhtar Chavari, Ana C. Martinez Maciel, Pedro Cortes, Eric MacDonald, B. Yelamanchi, M. Seol, D. Dornbusch, W. Huddleston, C. Francis, C. Ochoa Putman, Alexis Maurel.
Combining 3D printing of copper current collectors and electrophoretic deposition of electrode materials for structural lithium-ion batteries Advances in Manufacturing 13 (2025), Ana C. Martinez Maciel, Alexis Maurel, Bharat Yelamanchi, A. A. Talin, Sylvie Grugeon, Stéphane Panier, Loic Dupont, Ana Aranzola, Eva Schiaffino, Sreeprasad T. Sreenivasan, Pedro Cortes, Eric MacDonald.
Vat photopolymerization three-dimensional printing of PEGDA/LiClO4 solid polymer electrolytes with optimised accuracy and electrochemical-mechanical performance Virtual and Physical Prototyping 20 1 (2025), Alexis Maurel, Christian A. Fernandez, Eva M. Schiaffino, Md S. Mahmud, Katia L. Delgado Ramos, Yirong Lin, Eric MacDonald, Laura C. Merrill, Jorge Cardenas, Ana C. Martinez Maciel.
Combining 3D printing of copper current collectors and electrophoretic deposition of electrode materials for structural lithium-ion batteries Advances in Manufacturing (2024), Ana C. Martinez Maciel, Alexis Maurel, Bharat Yelamanchi, A. A. Talin, Sylvie Grugeon, Stéphane Panier, Loic Dupont, Ana Aranzola, Eva Schiaffino, Sreeprasad T. Sreenivasan, Pedro Cortes, Eric MacDonald.
3D printing of cyanate ester resins with interpenetration networks for enhanced thermal and mechanical properties Journal of Applied Polymer Science 141 21 (2024), Saqlain Zaman, Sergio Favela, Nicolas E. Herrera, Alejandro Gandara, Laura Molina, Md. S. Hassan, Sofia G. Gomez, Jean E. Ramirez, Md. S. Mahmud, Ana C. Martinez Maciel, Alexis Maurel, Zhengtao Gan, Eric MacDonald, Yirong Lin.
The Transformative Power of Additive Manufacturing for Batteries AM&P Technical Articles 182 (3) (2024), Ana C. Martinez Maciel, Alexis Maurel.
3D Printed Alumina for Geometrically-Complex Electronic Substrates With High-Performance Printed Conductors IEEE Access 12 (2024), Alexander Gomez, Bharat Yelamanchi, Alexis Maurel, Ana C. Martinez Maciel, Thomas Feldhausen, Jayaprakash Shivakumar, Eduardo Rojas, Yirong Lin, Pedro Cortes, Eric MacDonald, David A. Roberson.
3D printing of cyanate ester resins with interpenetration networks for enhanced thermal and mechanical properties Journal of Applied Polymer Science 141 21 (2024), Saqlain Zaman, Sergio Favela, Nicolas E. Herrera, Alejandro Gandara, Laura Molina, Md S. Hassan, Sofia G. Gomez, Jean E. Ramirez, Md S. Mahmud, Ana C. Martinez Maciel, Yirong Lin.
Additive manufacturing of LiCoO2 electrodes via vat photopolymerization for lithium ion batteries Energy Advances 3 5 (2024), Ana C. Martinez Maciel, Ana P. Aranzola, Eva Schiaffino, Eric MacDonald, Alexis Maurel.
Doping of Sodium-Ion Cathodes for in-Situ Resource Utilization on the Moon and Mars 10 (2024), William Huddleston, Donald Dornbusch, Alexis Maurel, Ana C. Martinez Maciel, Eric MacDonald, Myeonglok Seol, Bharat Yelamanchi, Sina B. Chavari, Pedro Cortes, Cameroun Sherrard, others.
Symmetric Sodium-Ion Batteries Incorporating 3D Printed Na3V2 (PO4) 3 Electrodes PRiME 2024 (October 6-11, 2024) (2024), Ana C. Martinez Maciel, Sina B. Chavari, Pedro Cortes, Carol Putman, Eric MacDonald, Alexis Maurel.
Manufacturing-oriented review on 3D printed lithium-ion batteries fabricated using material extrusion Virtual and Physical Prototyping 18 1 (2023), Alexis Maurel, Antonio Pavone, Gianni Stano, Ana C. Martinez Maciel, Eric MacDonald, Gianluca Percoco.
3D Printed TiO2 Negative Electrodes for Sodium-Ion and Lithium-Ion Batteries Using Vat Photopolymerization Journal of The Electrochemical Society 170 10 (2023), Alexis Maurel, Ana C. Martinez Maciel, Sina B. Chavari, Bharat Yelamanchi, Myeong-Lok Seol, Donald A. Dornbusch, William H. Huddleston, Sreeprasad T. Sreenivasan, Cameroun G. Sherrard, Eric MacDonald, Pedro Cortes.
3D Printed TiO2 Negative Electrodes for Sodium-Ion and Lithium-Ion Batteries Using Vat Photopolymerization Journal of The Electrochemical Society 170 10 (2023), Alexis Maurel, Ana C. Martinez Maciel, Sina B. Chavari, Bharat Yelamanchi, Myeong-Lok Seol, Donald A. Dornbusch, William H. Huddleston, Sreeprasad T. Sreenivasan, Cameroun G. Sherrard, Eric MacDonald, Pedro Cortes.
Multiprocess 3D printing of sodium-ion batteries via vat photopolymerization and direct ink writing Journal of Physics: Energy 5 4 (2023), Ana C. Martinez Maciel, Eva M. Schiaffino, Ana P. Aranzola, Christian A. Fernandez, Myeong-Lok Seol, Cameroun G. Sherrard, Jennifer Jones, William H. Huddleston, Donald A. Dornbusch, Sreeprasad T. Sreenivasan, Pedro Cortes, Eric MacDonald, Alexis Maurel.
What Would Battery Manufacturing Look Like on the Moon and Mars? ACS Energy Letters 8 2 (2023), Ana C. Martinez Maciel, Alexis Maurel, Sreeprasad T. Sreenivasan, Pedro Cortes, Eric MacDonald.
What would battery manufacturing look like on the Moon and Mars? American Chemical Society (2023), Alexis Maurel, Ana C. Martinez Maciel, Donald A. Dornbusch, William H. Huddleston, Myeong-Lok Seol, Christopher R. Henry, Jennifer M. Jones, Bharat Yelamanchi, Sina Bakhtar Chavari, Jennifer E. Edmunson, others.
Additive manufacturing of LiNi1/3Mn1/3Co1/3O2 battery electrode material via vat photopolymerization precursor approach Scientific Reports 12 1 (2022), Ana C. Martinez Maciel, Alexis Maurel, Ana P. Aranzola, Sylvie Grugeon, Panier, St\'ephane, Loic Dupont, Jose A. Hernandez Viezcas, Bhargavi Mummareddy, Beth L. Armstrong, Pedro Cortes, others.
Toward high resolution 3D printing of shape-conformable batteries via vat photopolymerization: review and perspective IEEE Access 9 (2021), Alexis Maurel, Ana C. Martinez Maciel, Sylvie Grugeon, Panier, St\'ephane, Loic Dupont, Pedro Cortes, Cameroun G. Sherrard, Ian Small, Sreeprasad T. Sreenivasan, Eric MacDonald.

Presentations

Advanced manufacturing of materials for more efficient and sustainable energy storage on Earth and in Space (2025), Volume Medellin, Colombia, Ana C. Martinez.
Doping of Sodium-Ion Cathodes for in-Situ Resource Utilization on the Moon and Mars (2024), William Huddleston, Donald Dornbusch, Alexis Maurel, Ana C. Martinez Maciel, Eric MacDonald, Myeonglok Seol, Bharat Yelamanchi, Pedro Cortes, Carol Putman.
Extrusion Printing of Polypropylene/Polyethylene Copolymer Gaskets in Custom-Form Batteries (2024), Jorge Antonio Cardenas, Laura C. Merril, Benjamin Warren, Ana C. Martinez Maciel, Alexis Maurel.
4D Printed Actuation with Spatially-varying Lattices (2024), Katia L. Delgado Ramos, Ana Aranzola, Aaron Cervantes, Alejandra G. Castellanos, Mohamed El Mansori, Akbar Ijaz, Ana C. Martinez Maciel, Alexis Maurel, Eric MacDonald, David A. Roberson.

Grants

No info available.

Current/Future Courses

Term	Course	Section
Spring 2026	MASE 6398 - Dissertation	22576
Spring 2026	MASE 6399 - Dissertation	22715
Spring 2026	MECH 6396 - Doctoral Research	24582
Spring 2026	MME 5396 - Graduate Projects	25617
Spring 2026	MME 5397 - Graduate Projects	23680
Spring 2026	MME 5194 - Graduate Research	27718
Spring 2026	MME 5294 - Graduate Research	27457
Spring 2026	MME 5394 - Graduate Research	27460
Spring 2026	MASE 6194 - Graduate Research Projects	21073
Spring 2026	MASE 6294 - Graduate Research Projects	22690
Spring 2026	MASE 6394 - Graduate Research Projects	20090
Spring 2026	MASE 6191 - Individual Studies	25629
Spring 2026	MASE 6291 - Individual Studies	21119
Spring 2026	MASE 6391 - Individual Studies	20085
Spring 2026	MME 5191 - Individual Studies	27698
Spring 2026	MME 5391 - Individual Studies	25626
Spring 2026	MME 5398 - Thesis	25620
Spring 2026	MME 5399 - Thesis	25624
Spring 2026	RSRC 4033 - Undergraduate Research	26176

Past Courses

Select Term:

Term	Course	Section
Fall 2025	MASE 6191 - Individual Studies	16819
Fall 2024	RSRC 4033 - Undergraduate Research	18232
Summer 2024	RSRC 4033 - Undergraduate Research	31003

Course Evaluations

No info available.

Bio

Dr. Martinez is an Assistant Professor of Research specializing in materials for energy storage and conversion for a variety of applications.

Awards and Honors

First grant as lead PI during the fiscal year 2023–2024 - Pioneering Researchers Reception from The University of Texas at El Paso (01/29/2025)
Feature in ACS’s Energy Letters: Women Scientists at the Forefront of Energy Research - ACS’s Energy Letters (01/01/2024-01/31/2024)
Battery Young Research Award - Battery Innovation Days event (11/01/2021-11/30/2021)
Erasmus Mundus grant for the Latin-American region - The European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) (01/01/2015-12/31/2015)

Ph D in Chemistry of solids and materials science, Industrial PhD between the Renault–Nissan–Mitsubishi Alliance and Université de Picardie Jules Verne (2021)
MS in Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion, Université de Toulouse Paul Sabatier / Warsaw University of Technology / Universidad de Córdoba / Université de Picardie Jules Verne (2017)
B.Eng. in Nanotechnology Engineering, Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro (2015)

Publications

3D Printing of Highly Porous Polypropylene Separators for Lithium‐Ion Batteries Using Fused Deposition Modeling and Thermally Induced Phase Separation Advanced Materials Technologies (2025), Abraham Enchinton, Ana C. Martinez Maciel, Alexis Maurel, Katherine R. Gonzalez, Christian A. Fernandez, Sivasai Balivada, Laura C. Merril, Jorge A. Cardenas, Stéphane Panier.
Electrochemical Performance of Layered Honeycomb Na2(Ni2–xCox)TeO6 (x = 0, 0.10, 0.25) Oxides as Sodium-Ion Battery Cathodes Inorganic Chemistry 64 17 (2025), Yohannes W. Getahun, Ana C. Martinez Maciel, Mario Rodriguez, Alexis Maurel, Daisy Lopez, Eunja Kim, Graham King, Harikrishnan Nair.
3D printed polymer gaskets for custom-form batteries Journal of Power Sources Advances (2025), Jorge Cardenas, Laura C. Merrill, Alexis Maurel, Ana C. Martinez Maciel, .
3D Printing of Lattice-Structured Hard Carbon Negative Electrodes for Sodium-Ion Batteries Using Vat Photopolymerization Rapid Prototyping (2025), S. Bakhtar Chavari, Ana C. Martinez Maciel, Pedro Cortes, Eric MacDonald, B. Yelamanchi, M. Seol, D. Dornbusch, W. Huddleston, C. Francis, C. Ochoa Putman, Alexis Maurel.
Combining 3D printing of copper current collectors and electrophoretic deposition of electrode materials for structural lithium-ion batteries Advances in Manufacturing 13 (2025), Ana C. Martinez Maciel, Alexis Maurel, Bharat Yelamanchi, A. A. Talin, Sylvie Grugeon, Stéphane Panier, Loic Dupont, Ana Aranzola, Eva Schiaffino, Sreeprasad T. Sreenivasan, Pedro Cortes, Eric MacDonald.

Presentations

Advanced manufacturing of materials for more efficient and sustainable energy storage on Earth and in Space (2025), Volume Medellin, Colombia, Ana C. Martinez.
Doping of Sodium-Ion Cathodes for in-Situ Resource Utilization on the Moon and Mars (2024), William Huddleston, Donald Dornbusch, Alexis Maurel, Ana C. Martinez Maciel, Eric MacDonald, Myeonglok Seol, Bharat Yelamanchi, Pedro Cortes, Carol Putman.
Extrusion Printing of Polypropylene/Polyethylene Copolymer Gaskets in Custom-Form Batteries (2024), Jorge Antonio Cardenas, Laura C. Merril, Benjamin Warren, Ana C. Martinez Maciel, Alexis Maurel.
4D Printed Actuation with Spatially-varying Lattices (2024), Katia L. Delgado Ramos, Ana Aranzola, Aaron Cervantes, Alejandra G. Castellanos, Mohamed El Mansori, Akbar Ijaz, Ana C. Martinez Maciel, Alexis Maurel, Eric MacDonald, David A. Roberson.

No info available.

Current/Future Courses

Term

Spring 2026

Course

MASE 6398 - Dissertation

Section

22576

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2026

Course

MASE 6399 - Dissertation

Section

22715

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2026

Course

MECH 6396 - Doctoral Research

Section

24582

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2026

Course

MME 5396 - Graduate Projects

Section

25617

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2026

Course

MME 5397 - Graduate Projects

Section

23680

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2026

Course

MME 5194 - Graduate Research

Section

27718

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2026

Course

MME 5294 - Graduate Research

Section

27457

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2026

Course

MME 5394 - Graduate Research

Section

27460

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2026

Course

MASE 6194 - Graduate Research Projects

Section

21073

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2026

Course

MASE 6294 - Graduate Research Projects

Section

22690

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2026

Course

MASE 6394 - Graduate Research Projects

Section

20090

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2026

Course

MASE 6191 - Individual Studies

Section

25629

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2026

Course

MASE 6291 - Individual Studies

Section

21119

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2026

Course

MASE 6391 - Individual Studies

Section

20085

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2026

Course

MME 5191 - Individual Studies

Section

27698

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2026

Course

MME 5391 - Individual Studies

Section

25626

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2026

Course

MME 5398 - Thesis

Section

25620

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2026

Course

MME 5399 - Thesis

Section

25624

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2026

Course

RSRC 4033 - Undergraduate Research

Section

26176

Syllabus

Past Courses

Select Term:

Term

Fall 2025

Course

MASE 6191 - Individual Studies

Section

16819

Syllabus

Term

Fall 2024

Course

RSRC 4033 - Undergraduate Research

Section

18232

Syllabus

Term

Summer 2024

Course

RSRC 4033 - Undergraduate Research

Section

31003

Syllabus

No info available.

Ana C. Martinez

Bio

Education

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Courses

Course Evaluations