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 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.