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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

3D-structured mesoporous silica memristors for neuromorphic switching and reservoir computing

Ayoub Hassan Jaafar Hamdiyah, Li Shao, Peng Dai, Tongjun Zhang, Yisong Han, Richard Beanland, Neil Kemp, Philip N. Bartlett, Andrew L. Hector & Ruomeng Huang, 2022, Nanoscale, 14(46), 17170-17181

DOI: 10.1039/d2nr05012a

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

Mesoporous silica films as hard templates for electrodeposition of nanostructured gold

Tauqir Nasir, Li Shao, Yisong Han, Richard Beanland, Philip N. Bartlett & Andrew L. Hector, 2022, Nanoscale Advances, 4(22), 4798-4808

DOI: 10.1039/D2NA00512C

Type: article

Temperature dependence of hard carbon performance in sodium half-cells with 1 M NaClO₄ in EC/DEC electrolyte

Bowen Liu, Andrew L. Hector, Weronika O. Razmus & Richard G.A. Wills, 2022, Batteries, 8(9)

DOI: 10.3390/batteries8090108

Type: article

Effect of laser repetition rate on the growth of Sc₂O₃ via pulsed laser deposition

Goby, Adithya Govindassamy, Jake J Prentice, James G. Lunney, R.W. Eason & Jacob Mackenzie, 2022, Applied Physics A: Materials Science & Processing, 128(7)

DOI: 10.1007/s00339-022-05698-4

Type: article

AC-assisted deposition of aggregate free silica films with vertical pore structure

Gilles, Ernest Heinrich Karl Moehl, Tauqir Nasir, Yisong Han, Yasir Noori, Ruomeng Huang, Richard Beanland, Philip N. Bartlett & Andrew L. Hector, 2022, Nanoscale, 14(14), 5404-5411

DOI: 10.1039/D1NR08253A

Type: article

Increasing the diameter of vertically aligned, hexagonally ordered pores in mesoporous silica thin films

Nabil, Ahmed - Nooh Mohamed, Yisong Han, Andrew L. Hector, Anthony Houghton, Elwin Hunter-Sellars, Gillian Reid, Daryl Williams & Wenjian Zhang, 2022, Langmuir, 38(7), 2257-2266

DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.1c02854

Type: article