Contact Dr Francesco Fanicchia
- Tel: +44 (0) 1234 758366
- Email: Francesco.Fanicchia@cranfield.ac.uk
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 ÂãÁÄÖ±²¥ 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
