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EP/K009877/1 - Andrew Hector - Enabling microfocus and thin film x-ray scattering

Staff

Lead researcher

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. 
Other researchers

Dr Mark Light

X Ray Diffraction Manager

Research interests

  • Single crystal X-ray diffraction
  • Powder and materials X-ray diffraction
  • Total scattering and pair distribution function analysis

Research outputs

Confining the growth of mesoporous silica films into nanospaces
Samantha Soulé,
Gilles E. Moehl,
Ruomeng Huang,
Yasir J. Noori,
Kian Shen Kiang,
C. H. Kees de Groot,
Richard Beanland,
David C. Smith,
& Andrew L. Hector
, 2022 , Nanoscale Advances , 4 (4) , 1105--1111
DOI: 10.1039/d1na00654a
Type: article
LiFePO4 battery material for the production of lithium from brines: Effect of brine composition and benefits of dilution
Sara Perez rodriguez,
Samuel Fitch,
Philip N. Bartlett,
& Nuria Garcia-Araez
, 2022 , ChemSusChem , 15 (1)
DOI: 10.1002/cssc.202102182
Type: article
Thermoelectric properties of bismuth telluride thin films electrodeposited from a non-aqueous solution
Katarina Cicvarić,
Lingcong Meng,
Daniel W. Newbrook,
Ruomeng Huang,
Sheng Ye,
Wenjian Zhang,
Andrew L. Hector,
Gillian Reid,
Philip N. Bartlett,
& C.H. Kees De Groot
, 2020 , ACS Omega , 5 (24) , 14679--14688
DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.0c01284
Type: article
Electrodeposition of a functional solid state memory material – germanium antimony telluride from a non-aqueous plating bath
Gabriela Kissling,
Ruomeng Huang,
Andrew Jolleys,
Sophie L Benjamin,
Andrew L. Hector,
Gillian Reid,
William Levason,
Cornelis De Groot,
& Philip N. Bartlett
, 2018 , Journal of the Electrochemical Society , 165 (11) , D557--D567
DOI: 10.1149/2.0981811jes
Type: article
Electrodeposition of crystalline HgTe from a non-aqueous plating bath
Gabriela Kissling,
Mohsin Aziz,
Andrew Lodge,
Wenjian Zhang,
Mehrdad Alibouri,
Ruomeng Huang,
Andrew L. Hector,
Gillian Reid,
Cornelis De Groot,
Richard Beanland,
Philip N. Bartlett,
& David C. Smith
, 2018 , Journal of the Electrochemical Society , 165 (16) , D802--D807
DOI: 10.1149/2.0421816jes
Type: article