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Topological Engineering

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor David Smith MA, DPhil

Professor
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Email: D.C.Smith@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Emeritus Professor Greg Parker

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Email: gjp1@soton.ac.uk

Professor Gill Reid

PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY
Research interests
  • Synthetic inorganic chemistry
  • Design and synthesis of new macrocyclic and multidentate ligands involving donor atoms from G…
  • Coordination chemistry with s-, p-, d- and f-block metal ions
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Email: G.Reid@soton.ac.uk

Emeritus Professor William Levason

Research interests
  • Coordination chemistry, group 15 and 16 donor ligands, early transition metal chemistry, main…
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Email: wxl@soton.ac.uk

Professor Andrew Hector

Head of School
Research interests
  • Materials synthesis, including metal nitrides, thin film materials, sol-gel and solvothermal …
  • Materials characterisation – powder and thin film diffraction, microscopy and spectroscopy te…
  • Electrochemistry, including charge storage in battery and supercapacitor type cells, and elec…
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Email: A.L.Hector@soton.ac.uk

Professor Philip Bartlett

Professor of Chemistry
Research interests
  • Electrochemistry
  • Bioelectrochemistry
  • Templated electrodeposition of nanomaterials
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Email: P.N.Bartlett@soton.ac.uk

Dr Pier-John Sazio

Principal Research Fellow
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Email: P.A.Sazio@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

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
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
Hypervalent neutral O-donor ligand complexes of silicon tetrafluoride, comparisons with other group 14 tetrafluorides and a search for soft donor ligand complexes
Kathryn George, Andrew L. Hector, William Levason, Gillian Reid, George Sanderson, Michael Webster & Wenjian Zhang, 2011, Dalton Transactions, 40(7), 1584-1593
DOI: 10.1039/c0dt01115k
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
Deposition in supercritical fluids: from silver to semiconductors
Jixin Yang, Tom Hasell, David C. Smith & Steven M. Howdle, 2009, Journal of Materials Chemistry, 19(45), 8560
DOI: 10.1039/b911224c
Type: article