Michele NACUCCHI
Michele NACUCCHI
(ENEA, Centro di Ricerca di Brindisi)
Nacucchi is currently researcher at the Brindisi Research Centre of the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA).
Since April 2010 to June 2015 he was head of the Laboratory “Composites and Nanostructured Materials” of that Centre. Since 1990 he has began to develop expertise in the advanced materials field, specifically focusing on micro-analytical characterization of materials using probes of collimated beams of electrons or X-rays.
In 1993 he has become member of the European Society of Microanalysis (EMAS). Due to this expertise, since 1998 Nacucchi is Italian representative in the Technical Committee ISO/TC-202 "Standardisation in the field of microbeam analysis" as an expert in the subcommittee "Electron Probe microanalysis". More recently, he was responsible for ENEA activities in the Apulian regional project, "Materials and methods for innovative products in the field of renewable energy."
In this project, he was involved in the measurement of the aging degradation of the mechanical properties of bonded joints of fibre-reinforced plastic material, used in the blades manufacturing of small wind turbines. Since January 2014 he deals with non destructive analyses by high-resolution X-ray computed tomography of different materials, primarily for aerospace applications and bioengineering.
