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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

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
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
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
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 , 106 (35) , 14768--14772
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0901986106
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
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