Dr Victoria Garcia Rocha
Honorary Fellow
- garciarochav@cardiff.ac.uk
- +44 (0)29 2087 0498
- W/2.28, Queen's Buildings - West Building, 5 The Parade, Newport Road, Cardiff, CF24 3AA
Overview
Dr Victoria Garcia Rocha is currently a Lecturer in Composites working in the area of carbon-ceramic composites. She holds a MEng degree in Chemical Engineering and PhD in Materials Science and over six years Postdoctoral Experience including an Intra-European Marie Curie Fellowship at Imperial College London. Her expertise lies in the field of materials science, chemistry and engineering of carbon-based composite materials and ceramics. Her research interests are in the relationship between chemical structure and bulk properties of carbon materials, carbon-ceramic and ceramic composites, which enable the development of synthesis, scale up and processing technologies with the aim of finding new composite materials for different applications, primarily advanced structural materials and energy devices.
Biography
Education and qualifications
- 2008: PhD Materials Science and Metallurgy Engineering. Doctoral Thesis “Development of petroleum pitches for magnesia-carbon refractories”. National Institute of Coal. (INCAR-CSIC). University of Oviedo. (Spain)
- 2001: MEng Chemical Engineering. University of Oviedo. (Spain)
Career overview
- 2016: Lecturer in Composites, Cardiff University, UK
- 2013-2016: Intra European Marie Curie Fellowship, Department of Materials. Imperial College London, UK.
- 2012-2013: Research Associate, Chemical Engineering. University of Bath, UK
- 2009-2012: Research Associate, ITMA Materials Technology, Asturias. Spain
- 2008-2009: Quality and R&D Manager at SIDERCAL MINERALES SME. Spain
Professional memberships
Associate member of Spanish Carbon Group
Fellow of The Higher Education Academy, 2019
Publications
2021
- Eze, M. C.et al. 2021. Optimum silver contact sputtering parameters for efficient perovskite solar cell fabrication. Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 230, article number: 111185. (10.1016/j.solmat.2021.111185)
2020
- Garcia Rocha, V.et al. 2020. Direct ink writing advances in multi-material structures for a sustainable future. Journal of Materials Chemistry A 8(31), pp. 15646-15657. (10.1039/D0TA04181E)
- Li, J.et al. 2020. Formation of polarised, functional artificial cells from compartmentalised droplet networks and nanomaterials, using one-step, dual-material 3D-printed microfluidics. Advanced Science 7(1), article number: 1901719. (10.1002/advs.201901719)
2018
- Rocha, V. G.et al. 2018. Multimaterial 3D printing of graphene-based electrodes for electrochemical energy storage using thermo-responsive inks. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces 9(42), pp. 37136-37145. (10.1021/acsami.7b10285)
- Al-Shidhani, M.et al. 2018. Design and testing of 3D printed cross compound parabolic concentrators for LCPV system. AIP Conference Proceedings 2012(1), article number: 20001. (10.1063/1.5053489)
2017
- Olowojoba, G. B.et al. 2017. A facile way to produce epoxy nanocomposites having excellent thermal conductivity with low contents of reduced graphene oxide. Journal of Materials Science 52(12), pp. 7323-7344. (10.1007/s10853-017-0969-x)
- Picot, O. T.et al. 2017. Using graphene networks to build bioinspired self-monitoring ceramics. Nature Communications 8, article number: 14425. (10.1038/ncomms14425)
2016
- Olowojoba, G. B.et al. 2016. In situ thermally reduced graphene oxide/epoxy composites: thermal and mechanical properties. Applied Nanoscience 6(7), pp. 1015-1022. (10.1007/s13204-016-0518-y)
- Ferraro, C.et al. 2016. Light and strong SiC networks. Advanced Functional Materials 26(10), pp. 1636-1645. (10.1002/adfm.201504051)
- Eslava, S.et al. 2016. Using graphene oxide as a sacrificial support of polyoxotitanium clusters to replicate its two-dimensionality on pure titania photocatalysts. Journal of Materials Chemistry A 4(19), pp. 7200-7206. (10.1039/C5TA09989G)
- Chabi, S.et al. 2016. Ultralight, strong, three-dimensional SiC structures. ACS Nano 10(2), pp. 1871-1876. (10.1021/acsnano.5b05533)
2015
- D'Elia, E.et al. 2015. Self-healing graphene-based composites with sensing capabilities. Advanced Materials 27(32), pp. 4788-4794. (10.1002/adma.201501653)
- Gutierrez-Gonzalez, C. F.et al. 2015. Wear behavior of graphene/alumina composite. Ceramics International 41(6) (10.1016/j.ceramint.2015.02.061)
2014
- Suarez, M.et al. 2014. Synthesis and processing of spinel powders for transparent ceramics. Ceramics International 40(3), pp. 4065-4069. (10.1016/j.ceramint.2013.08.060)
- Borrell, A.et al. 2014. ZrTiO4 materials obtained by spark plasma reaction-sintering. Composites: Part B Engineering 56, pp. 330-335. (10.1016/j.compositesb.2013.08.046)
2013
- Centeno, A.et al. 2013. Graphene for tough and electroconductive alumina ceramics. Journal of the European Ceramic Society 33(15-16), pp. 3201-3210. (10.1016/j.jeurceramsoc.2013.07.007)
- Borrell, A.et al. 2013. EPD and spark plasma sintering of bimodal alumina/titania concentrated suspensions. Journal of Alloys and Compounds 577, pp. 195-202. (10.1016/j.jallcom.2013.04.175)
- Borrell, A.et al. 2013. Enhanced properties of alumina-aluminium titanate composites obtained by spark plasma reaction-sintering of slip cast green bodies. Composites: Part B Engineering 47, pp. 255-259. (10.1016/j.compositesb.2012.11.010)
2012
- Borrell, A.et al. 2012. Bulk TiCxN1-x-15%Co cermets obtained by direct spark plasma sintering of mechanochemical synthesized powders. Materials Research Bulletin 47(12), pp. 4487-4490. (10.1016/j.materresbull.2012.09.066)
- Garcia Rocha, V.et al. 2012. Improvement of CNFs/SiC nanocomposite properties obtained from different routes and consolidated by pulsed electric-current pressure sintering. Materials Science and Engineering: A 556, pp. 414-419. (10.1016/j.msea.2012.07.006)
- Borrell, A.et al. 2012. Alumina-carbon nanofibers nanocomposites obtained by spark plasma sintering for proton exchange membrane fuel cell bipolar plates. Fuel Cells 12(4), pp. 599-605. (10.1002/fuce.201100042)
- Borrell, A.et al. 2012. Effect of carbon nanofibers content on thermal properties of ceramic nanocomposites. Journal of Composite Materials 46(10), pp. 1229-1234. (10.1177/0021998311416528)
- Centeno, A.et al. 2012. Fabrication of C/SiC composites by combining liquid infiltration process and spark plasma sintering technique. Ceramics International 38(3), pp. 2171-2175. (10.1016/j.ceramint.2011.10.060)
- Borrell, A.et al. 2012. Microstructural design for mechanical and electrical properties of spark plasma sintered Al2O3-SiC nanocomposites. Materials Science and Engineering: A 534, pp. 693-698. (10.1016/j.msea.2011.12.032)
- Borrell, A.et al. 2012. Effect of CNFs content on the tribological behaviour of spark plasma sintering ceramic-CNFs composites. Wear 274-27, pp. 94-99. (10.1016/j.wear.2011.08.013)
2011
- Borrell, A.et al. 2011. Improvement of Carbon Nanofibers/ZrO2 Composites Properties with a Zirconia Nanocoating on Carbon Nanofibers by Sol-Gel Method. Journal of the American Ceramic Society 94(7), pp. 2048-2052. (10.1111/j.1551-2916.2010.04354.x)
- Borrell, A.et al. 2011. Propiedades mecánicas y tribológicas de materiales nanoestructurados de carburo de silicio/nanofibras de carbono. Boletín de la Sociedad Española de Cerámica y Vidrio 50(3), pp. 109-116. (10.3989/cyv.152011)
- Bonache, V.et al. 2011. Microstructural control of ultrafine and nanocrystalline WC?12Co?VC/Cr3C2 mixture by spark plasma sintering. Ceramics International 37(3), pp. 1139-1142. (10.1016/j.ceramint.2010.11.026)
- Borrell, A.et al. 2011. Surface coating on carbon nanofibers with alumina precursor by different synthesis routes. Composites Science and Technology 71(1), pp. 18-22. (10.1016/j.compscitech.2010.09.011)
2010
- Garcia Rocha, V.et al. 2010. The effect of the substrate on pitch wetting behaviour. Fuel Processing Technology 91(11), pp. 1373-1377. (10.1016/j.fuproc.2010.05.007)
- Garcia Rocha, V.et al. 2010. Oxidation behaviour of magnesia-carbon materials prepared with petroleum pitch as binder. Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis 88(2), pp. 207-212. (10.1016/j.jaap.2010.04.008)
2005
- Garcia Rocha, V.et al. 2005. Pitch/coke wetting behaviour. Fuel 84(12-13), pp. 1550-1556. (10.1016/j.fuel.2005.02.007)
- Garcia Rocha, V.et al. 2005. Pyrolysis behaviour of pitches modified with different additives. Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis 73(2), pp. 276-283. (10.1016/j.jaap.2005.02.010)
Teaching
Victoria's lecturing expertise is mainly focussed on Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science related topics.
Academic year 2016/2017
- EN1048 - Engineering Applications.
- EN1090 - Engineering Analysis
- EN2024 - Mechanical Engineering Laboratories.
- EN3100 - Year 3 Project MMM.
- EN4101 - Mechatronics Design.
Engineers create graphene components using 3D printing
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcollege/newssummary/news_12-2-2015-8-58-8
Supervision
- Materials and Composites Design and Manufacturing
- Graphene based materials
- Ceramics and ceramics based composites manufacturing
- Mechanical properties characterisation
