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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 Groups 15 (P, As, Sb, Bi) and 16 (S, Se, Te)
  • Coordination chemistry with s-, p-, d- and f-block metal ions
Connect with Gill

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 group metal chemistry 
Connect with William

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 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. 
Connect with Andrew

Email: A.L.Hector@soton.ac.uk

Professor Philip Bartlett

Professor of Chemistry
Research interests
  • Electrochemistry
  • Bioelectrochemistry
  • Templated electrodeposition of nanomaterials
Connect with Philip

Email: P.N.Bartlett@soton.ac.uk

Dr Pier-John Sazio

Principal Research Fellow
Connect with Pier-John

Email: P.A.Sazio@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

Continuous flow supercritical chemical fluid deposition of optoelectronic quality CdS
Jixin Yang, Jason R. Hyde, James W. Wilson, Kanad Mallik, Pier J.A. Sazio, Paul O'Brien, Mohamed A. Malik, Mohammad Afzaal, Chinh Q. Nguyen, Michael W. George, Steven M. Howdle & David C. Smith, 2009, Advanced Materials, 21(41), 4115-4119
DOI: 10.1002/adma.200803751
Type: article
Electrodeposition of metals from supercritical fluids
Jie Ke, Wenta Su, Steven M. Howdle, Michael W. George, David Cook, Magda Perdjon-Abel, Philip N. Bartlett, Wenjian Zhang, Fei Cheng, William Levason, Gillian Reid, Jason Hyde, James Wilson, David C. Smith, Kanad Mallik & Pier Sazio, 2009, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 106(35), 14768-14772
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0901986106
Type: article
Coordination networks derived from germanium(ii) thioether macrocyclic complexes—the first authenticated chalcogenoether complexes of Ge(ii)
Fei Cheng, Andrew L. Hector, William Levason, Gillian Reid, Michael Webster & Wenjian Zhang, 2008, Chemical Communications(43), 5508-5510
DOI: 10.1039/b809444f
Type: article
The first examples of germanium tetrafluoride and tin tetrafluoride complexes with soft thioether coordination - synthesis, properties and crystal structures
Martin. F. Davis, William Levason, Gillian Reid, Micheal Webster & Wenjian Zhang, 2008, Dalton Transactions, 533-538
DOI: 10.1039/b713316b
Type: article