Contact Dr Francesco Fanicchia
- Tel: +44 (0) 1234 758366
- Email: Francesco.Fanicchia@cranfield.ac.uk
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Areas of expertise
- Hydrogen
- Manufacturing of Functional Materials
- Surface Engineering
- Sustainable Manufacturing
Background
Dr Fanicchia is Senior Lecturer in High Temperature Surface Engineering in the Surface Engineering and Precision Centre. He has both a BSc and a MSc in Materials Science from the University of Rome Tor Vergata (Italy) and in 2013 he moved to the UK to pursue his PhD in Materials Science at The University of Nottingham. He then gained industrial research experience in Surface Engineering at TRT Ltd and TWI Ltd (UK), before joining Cranfield University in 2022 as a Senior Lecturer.
Dr. Fanicchia is a Chartered Engineer (CEng) of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3) and an associate member of The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS).
Since his appointment at Cranfield, he is also Operations leader for the National High Temperature Surface Engineering Centre within the Henry Royce Institute.
Research opportunities
Hydrogen transport (permeation)
Coatings
Corrosion
High Temperature Materials
Testing for hydrogen embrittlement
Current activities
Hydrogen embrittlement and permeation
Hydrogen Permeation Barrier Coatings
Hydrogen Testing Technology
Thermal Barrier Coatings (TBCs)
Physical Vapour Deposition/Atomic Layer Deposition (PVD/ALD) multilayer development
Clients
- Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC
- UK Atomic Energy Authority
- Zircotec Ltd
Publications
Articles In Journals
- Fanicchia F & Karlsdottir SN. (2023). Research and development on coatings and paints for geothermal environments: a review. Advanced Materials Technologies, 8(18)
- Oppong Boakye G, Geambazu LE, Ormsdottir AM, Gunnarsson BG, Csaki I, .... (2022). Microstructural properties and wear resistance of Fe-Cr-Co-Ni-Mo-based high entropy alloy coatings deposited with different coating techniques. Applied Sciences, 12(6)
- Brownlie F, Hodgkiess T & Fanicchia F. (2021). Erosion-corrosion behaviour of CoCrFeNiMo0.85 and Al0.5CoCrFeNi complex concentrated alloys produced by laser metal deposition. Surface and Coatings Technology, 423
- Thorhallsson AI, Fanicchia F, Davison E, Paul S, Davidsdottir S, .... (2021). Erosion and Corrosion Resistance Performance of Laser Metal Deposited High-Entropy Alloy Coatings at Hellisheidi Geothermal Site. Materials, 14(11)
- Dong Z, Sergeev D, Dodge MF, Fanicchia F, Müller M, .... (2021). Microstructure and Thermal Analysis of Metastable Intermetallic Phases in High-Entropy Alloy CoCrFeMo0.85Ni. Materials, 14(5)
- Fanicchia F, Csaki I, Geambazu LE, Begg H & Paul S. (2019). Effect of Microstructural Modifications on the Corrosion Resistance of CoCrFeMo0.85Ni Compositionally Complex Alloy Coatings. Coatings, 9(11)
- Manea CA, Csaki I, Geambazu LE, Miculescu F, Petrescu MI, .... (2019). Hfnbtatizr high entropy alloy processed by mechanical alloying. UPB Scientific Bulletin, Series B: Chemistry and Materials Science, 81(3)
- Fanicchia F, Maeder X, Ast J, Taylor AA, Guo Y, .... (2018). Residual stress and adhesion of thermal spray coatings: Microscopic view by solidification and crystallisation analysis in the epitaxial CoNiCrAlY single splat. Materials & Design, 153
- Fanicchia F & Axinte DA. (2018). Transient three-dimensional geometrical/thermal modelling of thermal spray: Normal-impinging jet and single straight deposits. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 122
- Fanicchia F, Axinte DA, Kell J, McIntyre R, Brewster G, .... (2017). Combustion Flame Spray of CoNiCrAlY & YSZ coatings. Surface and Coatings Technology, 315
- De Matteis F, Fanicchia F, Lamastra FR, Stracci G, De Angelis R, .... (2014). Nonlinear optical materials by electrospinning technique. Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 131(20)
