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EPSRC Equipment Account - Dr A Hector Enabling Microfocus

Staff

Lead researcher

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. 
Other researchers

Dr Mark Light

X Ray Diffraction Manager

Research interests

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

Research outputs

Titanate nanotubes and nanosheets as a mechanical reinforcement of water-soluble polyamic acid
Christian Harito,
Dmitry V. Bavykin,
Mark E. Light,
& Frank C. Walsh
, 2017 , Composites Part B: Engineering , 124 , 54--63
DOI: 10.1016/j.compositesb.2017.05.051
Type: article
A novel route to nanostructured bismuth telluride films by electrodeposition
M.R. Burton,
S.J. Richardson,
P.A. Staniec,
N.J. Terrill,
J.M. Elliott,
A.M. Squires,
N.M. White,
& Iris S. Nandhakumar
, 2017 , Electrochemistry Communications , 76 , 71--74
DOI: 10.1016/j.elecom.2017.02.004
Type: article
Pulsed laser deposition of crystalline garnet waveguides at a growth rate of 20 µm per hour
James A. Grant-Jacob,
Stephen J. Beecher,
Jake J. Prentice,
David P. Shepherd,
Jacob I. Mackenzie,
& Robert W. Eason
, 2017 , Surface and Coatings Technology
DOI: 10.1016/j.surfcoat.2017.12.008
Type: article
Effect of annealing temperature on microstructure, mechanical and tribological properties of nano-SiC reinforced Ni-P coatings
Qianzhi Wang,
Mauro Callisti,
Jake Greer,
Brian McKay,
Tatjana Kosanovic Milickovic,
Alexandros Zoikis-Karathanasis,
Ioanna Deligkiozi,
& Tomas Polcar
, 2016 , Wear , 356-357 , 86--93
DOI: 10.1016/j.wear.2016.03.011
Type: article
Structural and mechanical properties of ?-irradiated Zr/Nb multilayer nanocomposites
Mauro Callisti,
T. Polcar,
& Lozano-Perez Sergio
, 2016 , Materials Letters , 163 , 138--141
DOI: 10.1016/j.matlet.2015.10.057
Type: article