Principal Investigator of FlexiLab
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
School of Industrial Engineering and Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering
Purdue University
West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
Phone: +1 765-496-0399
E-mail: rmartinez@purdue.edu
Education
PhD in Physics and Materials Science |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Spanish National Research Council |
Diploma of Advanced Studies in Physics |
Spanish National Research Council & Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM), Spain |
Certificate of Aptitudes for High Level Teaching (Physics and Chemistry) |
University of Madrid (UCM), Spain |
B. A. in Physics |
Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM), Spain |
Experience
01/2015 to Present |
Purdue University |
Organized two new courses on Additive Manufacturing and Electromagnetic Robotic Systems |
01/2012 to 06/2012 |
Harvard University- UC Santa Barbara |
Organized course material and taught selected lectures for undergraduate course on soft robotics |
01/2010 to 10/2010 |
Harvard University. Boston, US |
Teacher Fellow of “Physical Science |
01/2008 to 06/2008 |
Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM), Spain |
Teacher Fellow of “Electrical Transport in Nanoscale Systems |
10/2006 to 12/2007 |
Antonio Lopez High School. Madrid, Spain |
Teacher in Physics and Math |
10/2005 to 10/2006 |
Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM), Spain |
Teacher Fellow of the Laboratory of Instrumentation |
Biography
Ramses V. Martinez is an assistant professor at the School of Industrial Engineering and the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University since January 2015. His research group, the FlexiLab, is primarily involved in several projects in the areas of nanomanufacturing, microfluidics, and soft robotics. Dr. Martinez grew up in Madrid, Spain, and received a degree in Applied Physics from the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid in June 2004. He then entered an international PhD program at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) in collaboration with the Department of Material Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Ramses is author of more than 25 scientific publications and 10 patents. He has been awarded with the Fulbright Fellowship and the Marie Curie IOF grant for his postdoctoral work in the lab of Prof. George Whitesides at Harvard University while he also served as a Teaching Fellow at the Harvard University Science Center. Dr. Martinez has also been an active mentor of undergrad and graduate students and is now teaching courses on Robotics, Material Science, and Engineering Design at Purdue University. His current research efforts focus in the development of new microfluidic devices and wearable sensors.
Research Interest
Ramses Martinez is the Principal Investigator of the FlexiLab at Purdue University. The goal of the research at the FlexiLab is to conceptualize, develop, and implement new strategies for producing multifunctional flexible devices with advanced applications, such as tissue-like wearable and implantable nanoelectronics that are resistant to body fluids, and sufficiently flexible and stretchable to adapt to tissue and body motions. Dr. Ramses Martinez research interest includes:
- Wearable Devices
- Wireless Communication
- Microfluidic Devices
- Flexible Electronics
- Electrochemical Sensing
Scientific Activities:
Honors & Awards
- 03/2016-Teaching for Tomorrow Award, Faculty Learning Award granted to fifteen “junior” faculty associated to the College of Engineering who are committed to improving teaching at Purdue.
- 01/2012 to 01/2015-Marie Curie IOF–275148 Fellowship, European Commission (FP7 People program) Research grant for career development awarded to most outstanding, young, independent researchers in Europe
- 1/2010 to 01/2012-Fulbright Fellowship, Spanish Ministry of Education. Postdoctoral fellowship award
- 02/2010-Gold Medal (PhD Thesis), Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain, Award to the best doctoral thesis
- 09/2004 to 06/2012-I3P-CSIC Scholarship, European Social Fund and Spanish Ministry of Education Ph.D. scholarship award
- 06/2008-Travel grant for scientific stay at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Spanish Ministry of Education
- 02/2008-Travel grant to represent Spain at the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting COSCE Foundation
- 09/2006-Phantoms Foundation travel grant Travel grant for international conference participation. (“ISPM and Biosensors Conference.”Montpellier, France)
- 09/2002 to 06/2004-Undergraduate Research Assistant Scholarship to work 20 hours/week in the Department of Applied Physics at the Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain
Intellectual Property
- Ultrafast and Ultrasensitive Novel Photodetectors. Patent Number: 8154063Inventors: Jin Young Kim, Ramses V. Martinez, Francesco Stellacci, Javier Martinez, and Ricardo Garcia
- Filed: March 2, 2010 Issued: April 10, 2012
- Assignees: Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Spanish National Research Council
- Soft Robotic Actuators. Patent Number: WO2012148472 A3 Inventors: Filip Ilievski, Xin Chen, Aaron D. Mazzeo, George M. Whitesides, Robert Shepherd, Ramses V. Martinez, Won Jae Choi, Sen W. Kwok, Stephen Morin, Adam Stokes, and ZhihongNieFiled: November 21, 2011 Issued: July 25, 2013Assignee: President and Fellows of Harvard College
- Programmable Paper-Elastomer Composites as Pneumatic Actuators. Provisional Application Serial Number: 61/604,727 Inventors: Ramses V. Martinez and George M. WhitesidesFiled: February 28, 2012Assignee: President and Fellows of Harvard College
- Systems and Methods for Providing Soft Tentacles. Provisional Application Serial Number: 61/698,436Inventors: Ramses V. Martinez, Jamie L. Branch, Carina R. Fish, LihuaJin, Robert F. Shepherd, Rui M. D. Nunes, Zhigang Suo, and George M. WhitesidesFiled: September 7, 2012
- Assignee: President and Fellows of Harvard College
- Microfluidic Devices Formed from Hydrophobic Paper. Provisional Application Serial Number: 61/654,639 Inventors: Martin MwangiThuo, Xinyu Liu, Jean-Francis Bloch, Ana C. Glavan, Ramses V. Martinez, Wenije Lan, and George M. WhitesidesFiled: June 1, 2012Assignee: President and Fellows of Harvard College
- System, Method, and Computer-Accessible Medium for Fabrication of Miniature Endoscope using Soft Lithography. Provisional Patent Application Serial Number: 61/692,117Inventors: Guillermo J. Tearney, Dongkyun Kang, Ramses V. Martinez, Brett E. Bouma, and George M. WhitesidesFiled: August 22, 2012Assignees: Massachusetts General Hospital and President and Fellows of Harvard College
- Omniphobic Paper Devices. Provisional Application Serial Number: 61/792,455 Inventors: Ana C. Glavan, Ramses V. Martinez, and George M. WhitesidesFiled: March 15, 2013
- Assignee: President and Fellows of Harvard College
- Systems and Methods for Providing Flexible Robotic Actuators. Provisional International Patent Application Number: PCT/US13/32297 (USA, China, Korea, and Japan)
- Inventors: George M. Whitesides, Carina R. Fish, Filip Ilievski, LihuaJin, Ramses V. Martinez, Stephen Morin, Rui Nunes, Robert Foster Shepherd, Zhigang Suo, and Adam A. Stokes
- Filed: March 15, 2013Assignee: President and Fellows of Harvard College
- Apparatus, System, and Method for Providing Fabric Elastomer Composites as Pneumatic Actuators. Provisional International Patent Application Number: PCT/US13/28250 (USA, China, Korea, and Japan)Inventors: Ramses V. Martinez and George M. WhitesidesFiled: February 28, 2013
- Assignee: President and Fellows of Harvard College
- Flexible Electronic Strain-Limiting Layer for Soft ActuatorsInventors: Joshua Aaron Lessing, Ramses V. Martinez, Alok S. Tayi, Jason Ming Ting, and George M. Whitesides. Filed: (Provisional Application Serial Number: 62/040,905)Assignee: President and Fellows of Harvard College
- Phase-transforming and Switchable MetamaterialsUnited States Patent Application No. 62/200,466Inventors: Katia Bertoldi, LihuaJin, Ramses V. Martinez, Zhigang Suo, George M. Whitesides and Dian Yang Filed: August 3, 2015 Assignee: President and Fellows of Harvard College
- System and Method for Fabrication of Miniature Endoscope using Nanoimprint Lithography
Provisional International Patent Application Number: PCT/US15/13853 (USA, China, Korea, and Japan) Inventors: Ramses V. Martinez, and George M. WhitesidesFiled: January 30, 2016 - Assignee: President and Fellows of Harvard College
Publications
- Nanolithography Based on the Formation and Manipulation of Nanometer-size Organic Liquid Menisci.Ramses V. Martinez and Ricardo Garcia. Nano Letters 5, 1161-1164 (2005).
- Nano-chemistry and Scanning Probe Nanolithographies.Ricardo Garcia, Ramses V. Martinez, and Javier Martinez. Chemical Society Reviews 35, 29-38 (2006).
- Nanoscale Deposition of Single‐Molecule Magnets onto SiO2 Patterns.Ramses V. Martinez, Fernando Garcia, Ricardo Garcia, Eugenio Coronado, Alicia Forment‐Aliaga, Francisco M. Romero, and Sergio Tatay. Advanced Materials 19, 291‑295 (2007).
- Patterning Polymeric Structures with 2 nm Resolution at 3 nm Half Pitch in Ambient Conditions.Ramses V. Martinez, Nuria S. Losilla, Javier Martinez, Yves Huttel, and Ricardo Garcia. Nano Letters 7, 1846-1850 (2007).
- Sequential and Parallel Patterning by Local Chemical Nanolithography.Ramses V. Martinez, Nuria S. Losilla, Javier Martinez, Marta Tello, and Ricardo Garcia. Nanotechnology 18, 084021 (2007).
- Silicon Nanowire Transistors with a Channel Width of 4 nm Fabricated by Atomic Force Microscope Nanolithography.Javier Martinez, Ramses V. Martinez, and Ricardo Garcia. Nano Letters 8, 3636-3639 (2008).
- Splitting CO2 with Electric Fields: A Computational Investigation.Matteo Calvaresi, Ramses V. Martinez, Nuria S. Losilla, Javier Martinez, Ricardo Garcia, and Francesco Zerbetto. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 1, 3256-3260 (2010).
- Nanopatterning of Carbonaceous Structures by Field-induced Carbon Dioxide Splitting with a Force Microscope.Ricardo Garcia, Nuria S. Losilla, Javier Martinez, Ramses V. Martinez, Francisco J. Palomares, Yves Huttel, Matteo Calvaresi, and Francesco Zerbetto. Applied Physics Letters96, 143110 (2010).
- Survey of Materials for Nanoskiving and Influence of the Cutting Process on the Nanostructures Produced.Darren J. Lipomi, Ramses V. Martinez, Robert M. Rioux, Ludovico Cademartiri, William F. Reus, and George M. Whitesides. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces2, 2503-2514 (2010).
- Large‐scale Nanopatterning of Single Proteins used as Carriers of Magnetic Nanoparticles.Ramses V. Martinez, Javier Martinez, Marco Chiesa, Ricardo Garcia, Eugenio Coronado, Elena Pinilla‐Cienfuegos, and Sergio Tatay. Advanced Materials 22, 588-591 (2010).
- Silicon Nanowire Circuits Fabricated by AFM Oxidation Nanolithography.Ramses V. Martinez, Javier Martinez, and Ricardo Garcia. Nanotechnology 21, 245301 (2010).
- Patterning the Tips of Optical Fibers with Metallic Nanostructures Using Nanoskiving.Darren J. Lipomi, Ramses V. Martinez, Mikhail A. Kats, Sung H. Kang, Philseok Kim, Joanna Aizenberg, Federico Capasso, and George M. Whitesides. Nano letters11, 632‑636 (2011).
- Use of Thin Sectioning (Nanoskiving) to Fabricate Nanostructures for Electronic and Optical Applications.Darren J. Lipomi, Ramses V. Martinez, and George M. Whitesides. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 50, 8566-8583 (2011).
- Nanopatterning of Ferritin Molecules and the Controlled Size Reduction of Their Magnetic Cores. Ramses V. Martinez, Marco Chiesa, and Ricardo Garcia. Small7, 2914-2920 (2011).
- Separation of Nanoparticles in Aqueous Multiphase Systems through Centrifugation. Ozge Akbulut, Charles R. Mace, Ramses V. Martinez, Ashok A. Kumar, Zhihong Nie, Matthew R. Patton, and George M. Whitesides. Nano Letters 12, 4060-4064 (2012).
- Soft Lithographic Approaches to Nanofabrication.Darren J. Lipomi, Ramses V. Martinez, Ludovico Cademartiri, and George M. Whitesides. Nanostructured Polymer Materials and Thin Films; Kumacheva, E. and Russell, T.P. Vol. Eds., In Polymer Science: A Comprehensive Reference; Matyjaszewski, K., Möller, M., Eds.-in-Chief; Elsevier: Amsterdam. 7, 211-231 (2012).
- Elastomeric Origami: Programmable Paper‐Elastomer Composites as Pneumatic Actuators.Ramses V. Martinez, Carina R. Fish, Xin Chen, and George M. Whitesides. Advanced Functional Materials 22, 1376-1384 (2012).
- Robotic Tentacles with Three‐Dimensional Mobility Based on Flexible Elastomers. Ramses V. Martinez, Jamie L. Branch, Carina R. Fish, Lihua Jin, Robert F. Shepherd, Rui Nunes, Zhigang Suo, and George M. Whitesides. Advanced Materials 25, 205-212 (2013).
- Miniature Grating for Spectrally-Encoded Endoscopy.Dongkyun Kang, Ramses V. Martinez, George M. Whitesides, and Guillermo J. Tearney. Lab on a Chip13, 1810-1816 (2013).
- Rapid Fabrication of Pressure-driven Open-Channel Microfluidic Devices in Omniphobic RF Paper.Ana C. Glavan*, Ramses V. Martinez*, E. Jane Maxwell, Anand B. Subramaniam, Rui M.D. Nunes, Siowling Soh, and George M. Whitesides. Lab on a Chip 13, 2922-2930 (2013).
- Omniphobic “RF Paper” Produced by Silanization of Paper with Fluoroalkyltrichlorosilanes.Ana C. Glavan, Ramses V. Martinez, Anand B. Subramaniam, Hyo J. Yoon, Rui M.D. Nunes, Heiko Lange, Martin M. Thuo, and George M. Whitesides. Advanced Functional Materials 24, 60‑70 (2014).
- Magnetic Assembly of Soft Robots with Hard Components. Sen W. Kwok, Stephen A. Morin, BobakMosadegh, Ju-Hee So, Robert F. Shepherd, Ramses V. Martinez, Barbara Smith, Felice C. Simeone, Adam A. Stokes, andGeorge M. Whitesides. Advanced Functional Materials24, 2180-2187 (2014).
- Nanoskiving Core-shell Nanowires: A New Fabrication Method for Nano-optics.Douglas C. Watson*, Ramses V. Martinez*, Yannik Fontana, Eleonora Russo-Averchi, Martin Heiss, Anna FontcubertaiMorral, George M. Whitesides, and Marko Lončar. Nano Letters14, 524-531(2014).
- Soft Actuators and Robots that Are Resistant to Mechanical Damage.Ramses V. Martinez, Ana C. Glavan, CristophKeplinger, Alexis I. Oyetibo, and George M. Whitesides. Advanced Functional Materials24, 3003–3010 (2014).
- Fabrication of Low-cost Paper-based Microfluidic Devices by Embossing or Cut-and-Stack Methods.Martin M. Thuo*, Ramses V. Martinez*, Wenjie Lan, Xinyu Liu, Jabulani Barber, Manza B.J. Atkinson, Dineth Bandarage, Jean‑Francis Bloch, and George M. Whitesides. Chemistry of Materials 26, 4230–4237 (2014).
- Miniature Objective Lens with Variable Focus for Confocal Endomicroscopy.Minkyu Kim, Dongkyun Kang, Tao Wu, NimaTabatabaei, Robert W. Carruth, Ramses V. Martinez, George M. Whitesides, Yoshikazu Nakajima, and Guillermo J. Tearney. Biomedical Optics Express, 5, 4350-4361 (2014).
- Large-scale Nanoshaping of Ultrasmooth 3D Crystalline Metallic Structures.Huang Gao, Yaowu Hu, Yi Xuan, Ji Li, Yingling Yang, Ramses V. Martinez, Chunyu Li, Jian Luo, Minghao Qi, and Gary J. Cheng. Science, 346, 1352–1356 (2014).
- Phase-transforming and Switchable Metamaterials.Dian Yang, LihuaJin, Ramses V. Martinez, Katia Bertoldi, George M. Whitesides, and Zhigang Suo. Extreme Mechanics Letters, 6, 1-9 (2016).