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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

Low pressure CVD of GeE (E = Te, Se, S) thin films from alkylgermanium chalcogenolate precursors and effect of the deposition temperature on the thermoelectric performance of GeTe
Fred Robinson,
Vikesh Sethi,
Kees De Groot,
Andrew L. Hector,
Ruomeng Huang,
& Gillian Reid
, 2021 , ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces , 13 (40) , 47773--47783
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c14237
Type: article
Low temperature CVD of thermoelectric SnTe thin films from the single source precursor, [nBu3Sn(TenBu)]
Fred Robinson,
Daniel W Newbrook ,
Peter Curran,
Kees De Groot,
Duncan Hardie,
Andrew L. Hector,
Ruomeng Huang,
& Gillian Reid
, 2021 , Dalton Transactions , 50 (3) , 998--1006
DOI: 10.1039/D0DT03760E
Type: article
nBu2Sn(SnBu)2 and nBu3SnEnBu (E = S or Se) - effective single source precursors for the CVD of SnS and SnSe thermoelectric thin films
Fred Robinson,
Peter J. Curran,
Kees De Groot,
Duncan Hardie,
Andrew L. Hector,
Katherine Holloway,
Ruomeng Huang,
Daniel W Newbrook ,
& Gillian Reid
, 2021 , Materials Advances , 2 (14) , 4814--4823
DOI: 10.1039/D1MA00331C
Type: article
Chloroantimonate electrochemistry in dichloromethane
Simon Reeves,
Yasir Noori,
Wenjian Zhang,
Gillian Reid,
& Philip N. Bartlett
, 2020 , Electrochimica Acta , 354
DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2020.136692
Type: article
Synthesis of vanadium nitride-hard carbon composites from cellulose and their performance for sodium ion batteries
Hang Cheng,
Nuria Garcia-Araez,
& Andrew L. Hector
, 2020 , ACS Applied Energy Materials , 3 (5) , 4286--4294
DOI: 10.1021/acsaem.0c00003
Type: article