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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

Solvothermal synthesis of Sn3N4 as a high capacity sodium-ion anode: theoretical and experimental study of its storage mechanism
Samuel Fitch,
Giannantonio Cibin,
Steven Hepplestone,
Nuria Garcia-Araez,
& Andrew L. Hector
, 2020 , Journal of Materials Chemistry A , 8 (32) , 16437--16450
DOI: 10.1039/D0TA04034G
Type: article
Thioether complexes of WSCl4, WOCl4 and WSCl3 and evaluation of thiochloride complexes as CVD precursors for WS2 thin films
Danielle E. Smith,
Victoria Greenacre,
Andrew L. Hector,
William Levason,
Gillian Reid,
Fred Robinson,
Shibin Thomas,
& Ruomeng Huang
, 2020 , Dalton Transactions , 49 (8) , 2496--2504
DOI: 10.1039/D0DT00068J
Type: article
Electrodeposition of MoS2 from dichloromethane
Shibin Thomas,
Danielle E. Smith,
Victoria Greenacre,
Yasir Noori,
Andrew L. Hector,
Cornelis De Groot,
Gillian Reid,
& Philip N. Bartlett
, 2020 , Journal of the Electrochemical Society , 167 (10)
DOI: 10.1149/1945-7111/ab9c88
Type: article
Improved thermoelectric performance of Bi2Se3 alloyed Bi2Te3 thin films via low pressure chemical vapour deposition
Daniel W Newbrook ,
Stephen P Richards,
Victoria Greenacre,
Andrew L. Hector,
William Levason,
Gillian Reid,
C.H. De Groot,
& Ruomeng Huang
, 2020 , Journal of Alloys and Compounds , 848
DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2020.156523
Type: article
[Ge(TenBu)4]-a single precursor for the chemical vapour deposition of germanium telluride thin films
Samantha, Louise Hawken,
Ruomeng Huang,
Cornelis De Groot,
Andrew L. Hector,
Marek Jura,
William Levason,
& G.B.G. Stenning
, 2019 , Dalton Transactions , 48 , 117--124
DOI: 10.1039/C8DT03263G
Type: article