Research project

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

Lead researchers:

Professor Andrew Hector
Other researchers:

Dr Mark Light
Research funder:

EPSRC
Status:

Not active

Staff

Lead researchers

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

Other researchers

Dr Mark Light

Associate Professor

Research interests

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

Connect with Mark

Email: M.E.Light@soton.ac.uk

Research outputs

Fractal-like gold nanonetworks formed by templated electrodeposition through 3D-mesoporous silica films

Li Shao, Gilles E. Moehl, Ruomeng Huang & Andrew L. Hector, 2023, RSC Advances, 13(46), 32660-32671

DOI: 10.1039/d3ra06588j

Type: article

Ultralow thermal conductivity and improved thermoelectric properties of Al-doped ZnO by In Situ O₂ plasma treatment

Vikesh Sethi, Kai Sun, Daniel Newbrook, Danielle Runacres, Tongjun Zhang, Victoria Greenacre, Kees De Groot & Ruomeng Huang, 2023, Small Structures, 4(11)

DOI: 10.1002/sstr.202300140

Type: article

Tungsten dichalcogenide WS_2xSe_2-2x films via single source precursor low-pressure CVD and their (thermo-)electric properties

Vikesh Sethi, Danielle Runacres, Victoria Greenacre, Li Shao, Andrew L. Hector, William Levason, Kees De Groot, Gillian Reid & Ruomeng Huang, 2023, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 9635 - 9645

DOI: 10.1039/D3TA00466J

Type: article

Large-area synthesis of high electrical performance MoS₂ by a commercially scalable atomic layer deposition process

Nikolaos Aspiotis, Katrina Morgan, Benjamin März, Knut Müller-Caspary, Martin Ebert, Edwin Weatherby, Mark Light, Kevin Chung-Che Huang, Daniel W. Hewak, Sayani Majumdar & Ioannis Zeimpekis, 2023, npj 2D Mater Appl, 7

DOI: 10.1038/s41699-023-00379-z

Type: article

Anodic Sb₂S₃ electrodeposition from a single source precursor for resistive random-access memory devices

A.G. Wallace, R.P. King, N. Zhelev, A.H. Jaafar, W. Levason, R. Huang, G. Reid & P.N. Bartlett, 2022, Electrochimica Acta, 432

DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2022.141162

Type: article