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EPSRC Equipment Account - Dr A Hector Enabling Microfocus

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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

Bubbles formation in helium ion irradiated Cu/W multilayer nanocomposites: effects on structure and mechanical properties
Mauro Callisti,
M. Karlik,
& Tomas Polcar
, 2016 , Journal of Nuclear Materials , 473 , 18--27
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnucmat.2016.02.006
Type: article
Evolution of structural, mechanical and tribological properties of Ni–P/MWCNT coatings as a function of annealing temperature
Qianzhi Wang,
Mauro Callisti,
Alberto Miranda,
Brian McKay,
Ioanna Deligkiozi,
Tatjana Kosanovic Milickovic,
Alexandros Zoikis-Karathanasis,
Kostas Hrissagis,
Luca Magagnin,
& Tomas Polcar
, 2016 , Surface and Coatings Technology , 302 , 195--201
DOI: 10.1016/j.surfcoat.2016.06.011
Type: article
An amorphous titanium dioxide metal insulator metal selector device for resistive random access memory crossbar arrays with tunable voltage margin
Simone Cortese,
Ali Khiat,
Daniela Carta,
Mark E. Light,
& Themistoklis Prodromakis
, 2016 , Applied Physics Letters , 108 (3) , 1--4
DOI: 10.1063/1.4940361
Type: article
Evaluation of nanocrystalline Sn3N4 derived from ammonolysis of Sn(NEt2)4as a negative electrode material for Li-ion and Na-ion batteries
Xianji Li,
Andrew L. Hector,
John R. Owen,
& S. Imran U. Shah
, 2016 , Journal of Materials Chemistry A , 4 (14) , 5081--5087
DOI: 10.1039/c5ta08287k
Type: article
Surface modification and porosimetry of vertically aligned hexagonal mesoporous silica films
Calum Robertson,
Andrew W. Lodge,
Peter Basa,
Marina Carravetta,
Andrew L. Hector,
Reza Jalili Kashtiban,
Jeremy Sloan,
David C. Smith,
Joseph Spencer,
& Alain Walcarius
, 2016 , RSC Advances , 6 , 113432--113441
DOI: 10.1039/C6RA23059H
Type: article