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Topological Engineering

Staff

Lead researcher

Professor David Smith MA, DPhil

Professor
Other researchers

Emeritus Professor Greg Parker

Professor Gill Reid

PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY

Research interests

  • Synthetic inorganic chemistry
  • Design and synthesis of new macrocyclic and multidentate ligands involving donor atoms from Groups 15 (P, As, Sb, Bi) and 16 (S, Se, Te)
  • Coordination chemistry with s-, p-, d- and f-block metal ions

Emeritus Professor William Levason

Research interests

  • Coordination chemistry, group 15 and 16 donor ligands, early transition metal chemistry, main group metal chemistry 

Professor Andrew Hector

Head of School

Research interests

  • Materials synthesis, including metal nitrides, thin film materials, sol-gel and solvothermal processes and porous structures.
  • Materials characterisation – powder and thin film diffraction, microscopy and spectroscopy techniques.
  • Electrochemistry, including charge storage in battery and supercapacitor type cells, and electrodeposition of various materials. 

Professor Philip Bartlett

Professor of Chemistry

Research interests

  • Electrochemistry
  • Bioelectrochemistry
  • Templated electrodeposition of nanomaterials

Dr Pier-John Sazio

Principal Research Fellow

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Electrochemistry

A well-established world-class group researching energy charge transfer that affects many facets of life.

Research outputs

Raman spectroscopy of optical transitions and vibrational energies of ~1 nm HgTe extreme nanowires within single walled carbon nanotubes
Joseph Spencer,
John Nesbitt,
Harrison Trewhitt,
Reza J. Kashtiban,
Gavin Bell,
Victor G. Ivanov,
Eric Faulques,
Jeremy Sloan,
& David C. Smith
, 2014 , ACS Nano , 8 (9) , 9044--9052
DOI: 10.1021/nn5023632
Type: article
Measurements of the population lifetime of D band and G? band phonons in single-walled carbon nanotubes
John M. Nesbitt,
& David C. Smith
, 2013 , Nano Letters , 13 (2) , 416--422
DOI: 10.1021/nl303569n
Type: article
Chemical vapor deposition of GaP and GaAs thin films from [nBu2Ga(µ-EtBu2)2GanBu2] (E= P or As) and Ga(PtBu2)3
Fei Cheng,
Kathryn George,
Andrew L. Hector,
Marek Jura,
Anna Kroner,
William Levason,
John Nesbitt,
Gillian Reid,
David C. Smith,
& James W. Wilson
, 2011 , Chemistry of Materials , 23 (23) , 5217--5222
DOI: 10.1021/cm202158a
Type: article
Supramolecular assemblies of germanium(ii) halides with O-, S- and Se-donor macrocycles – the effects of donor atom type upon structure
Andrew L. Hector,
William Levason,
Michael Webster,
Gillian Reid,
& Wenjian Zhang
, 2011 , Dalton Transactions , 40 (3) , 694--700
DOI: 10.1039/c0dt00749h
Type: article
Coordination complexes of silicon and germanium halides with neutral ligands
William Levason,
Gillian Reid,
& Wenjian Zhang
, 2011 , Coordination Chemistry Reviews , 255 (11-12) , 1319--1341
DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2010.11.019
Type: article
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