Contact Dr Francesco Gucci
- Email: F.Gucci@cranfield.ac.uk
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Areas of expertise
- Lightweighting & Crashworthiness
- Manufacturing of Functional Materials
Background
I got a bachelor's in chemical engineering at the university of Pisa and later on joined Politecnico di Torino for a MSc in materials science and engineering. After my thesis I joined a research project between Politecnico di Torino and OLCI Enginering on resistance spot welding of aluminium alloy before being awarded a Marie Curie fellowship to join Queen Mary University of London for a PhD in Material Science. After my PhD I joined Cranfield University as a Research Fellow in Precision Device Manufacturing and then became Research Fellow in Advanced Automotive Lightweighting Structures.
Research opportunities
My current research interest are energy and multifunctional materials, coatings, sintering technologies and additive manufacturing..
Publications
Articles In Journals
- Yu M, Wang M, Xu C, Zhong W, Wu H, .... (2025). Review of bioinspired composites for thermal energy storage: preparation, microstructures and properties. Journal of Composites Science, 9(1)
- Campuzano A, Fernandes Soares L, Gucci F, Vargas Pereira F, Grasso M, .... (2025). Mechanical behaviour of a novel 3D-printed cubic cellular structures under bending loads: an experimental and numerical analysis. Progress in Additive Manufacturing, 10(11)
- Gucci F, de Sousa Malafaia AM, Brighton J & Grasso M. (2025). Influence of notch geometry and temperature on the mechanical properties of Al‐Mg alloy using molecular dynamics simulations. Fatigue & Fracture of Engineering Materials & Structures, 48(11)
- Lei P, Yu M, Gucci F, Huang Z, Fu R, .... (2024). Numerical simulation of heat transfer during spark plasma sintering of porous SiC. Ceramics International, 50(11)
- Russo S, Grasso M, Huang J, Pramana SS, Gucci F, .... (2024). Electrophoretic deposition of LiFePO4 and carbon black: a numerical study to explore longitudinal trends using Taguchi design. Materials & Design, 247
- Gucci F, Grasso M, Russo S, Leighton GJT, Shaw C, .... (2023). Electrical and mechanical characterisation of poly(ethylene)oxide-polysulfone blend for composite structural lithium batteries. Polymers, 15(11)
- Gucci F, Grasso M, Shaw C, Leighton GJT & Marchante Rodriguez V. (2023). PEO-based polymer blend electrolyte for composite structural battery. Polymer-Plastics Technology and Engineering, 62(8)
- Li G-Q, Yu M, Lin G-W, Wang Y-L, Yang L-X, .... (2023). Corrigendum to “Enhanced strength and thermal oxidation resistance of shaddock peel-polycarbosilane-derived C–SiC–SiO2 composites” [Ceram. Int. 48 (19 Part A) (2022) 27516–27526]. Ceramics International, 49(1)
- Li G-Q, Yu M, Luo H, Huang Z, Fu R-L, .... (2023). Low-temperature thermally modified fir-derived biomorphic C–SiC composites prepared by sol-gel infiltration. Ceramics International, 49(6)
- Gurung S, Gucci F, Cairns G, Chianella I & Leighton GJT. (2022). Hollow silica nano and micro spheres with polystyrene templating: a mini-review. Materials, 15(23)
- Li G-Q, Yu M, Lin G-W, Wang Y-L, Yang L-X, .... (2022). Enhanced strength and thermal oxidation resistance of shaddock peel-polycarbosilane-derived C–SiC–SiO2 composites. Ceramics International, 48(19)
- Gucci F, Saunders TG, Srinivasan B, Cheviré F, Ferluccio DA, .... (2020). Hybrid Flash-SPS of TiNiCu0.05Sn with reduced thermal conductivity. Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 837
- Gucci F, D’Isanto F, Zhang R, Reece MJ, Smeacetto F, .... (2019). Oxidation protective hybrid coating for thermoelectric materials. Materials, 12(4)
- Srinivasan B, Gellé A, Gucci F, Boussard-Pledel C, Fontaine B, .... (2019). Realizing a stable high thermoelectric zT ∼ 2 over a broad temperature range in Ge1−x−yGaxSbyTe via band engineering and hybrid flash-SPS processing. Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers, 6(1)
- Salvo M, Smeacetto F, D’Isanto F, Viola G, Demitri P, .... (2019). Glass-ceramic oxidation protection of higher manganese silicide thermoelectrics. Journal of the European Ceramic Society, 39(1)
- Taveri G, Grasso S, Gucci F, Toušek J & Dlouhy I. (2018). Bio‐Inspired Hydro‐Pressure Consolidation of Silica. Advanced Functional Materials, 28(48)
- Gucci F, Saunders TG & Reece MJ. (2018). In-situ synthesis of n-type unfilled skutterudite with reduced thermal conductivity by hybrid flash-spark plasma sintering. Scripta Materialia, 157
- Zhang R-Z, Gucci F, Zhu H, Chen K & Reece MJ. (2018). Data-Driven Design of Ecofriendly Thermoelectric High-Entropy Sulfides. Inorganic Chemistry, 57(20)
- Srinivasan B, Gautier R, Gucci F, Fontaine B, Halet J-F, .... (2018). Impact of Coinage Metal Insertion on the Thermoelectric Properties of GeTe Solid-State Solutions. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 122(1)
- Srinivasan B, Fontaine B, Gucci F, Dorcet V, Saunders TG, .... (2018). Effect of the Processing Route on the Thermoelectric Performance of Nanostructured CuPb18SbTe20. Inorganic Chemistry, 57(20)
- Yu M, Saunders T, Su T, Gucci F & Reece MJ. (2018). Effect of Heat Treatment on the Properties of Wood-Derived Biocarbon Structures. Materials, 11(9)
- Srinivasan B, Gucci F, Boussard-Pledel C, Cheviré F, Reece MJ, .... (2017). Enhancement in thermoelectric performance of n-type Pb-deficit Pb-Sb-Te alloys. Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 729
- Du B, Gucci F, Porwal H, Grasso S, Mahajan A, .... (2017). Flash spark plasma sintering of magnesium silicide stannide with improved thermoelectric properties. Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 5(6)
- Grasso S, Saunders T, McKinnon R, Castle E, Tatarko P, .... (2016). Spark plasma sintering in a flash. American Ceramic Society Bulletin, 95(7)
Books
- Gucci F, Saunders T, Reece M & Grasso S. (2019). Refined SPS modeling based on calibrated current and voltage measurements In Spark Plasma Sintering. Elsevier.
- Gucci F, Saunders T, Reece M & Grasso S. (2019). Chapter 7 - Refined SPS modeling based on calibrated current and voltage measurements In Cao G, Estournès C, Garay J & Orrù R (eds), Spark Plasma Sintering: Current status, new developments and challenges. Elsevier.