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EPSRC Equipment Account - Dr A Hector Enabling Microfocus

Lead researcher:

Professor Andrew Hector
Other researchers:

Dr Mark Light
Research funder:

EPSRC
Status:

Not active

Staff

Lead researcher

Professor Andrew Hector

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

Doctor Mark Light

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

Connect with Mark

Email: m.e.light@soton.ac.uk

Research outputs

Synthesis of hard carbon-TiN/TiC composites by reacting cellulose with TiCl4 followed by carbothermal nitridation/reduction

Hang Cheng,

Nuria Garcia-Araez,

Andrew L. Hector,

& Samantha Soule

, 2019 , Inorganic Chemistry , 58 (9) , 5776--5786

DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.9b00116

Type: article

Electrodeposition of bismuth telluride from a weakly coordinating, non-aqueous solution

Lingcong Meng,

Katarina Cicvarić,

Andrew L. Hector,

C.H. de Groot,

& Philip N. Bartlett

, 2019 , Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry , 839 , 134--140

DOI: 10.1016/j.jelechem.2019.03.021

Type: article

Solid molybdenum nitride microdisc electrodes: fabrication, characterisation, and application to the reduction of peroxodisulfate

Saiful Arifin Bin Shafiee,

Andrew L. Hector,

& Guy Denuault

, 2019 , Electrochimica Acta , 293 , 184--190

DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2018.10.046

Type: article

The effect of organoclay loading and matrix morphology on charge transport and dielectric breakdown in an ethylene-based polymer blend

Allison, Vivienne Shaw,

Alun Vaughan,

& Thomas Andritsch

, 2019 , Journal of Materials Science , 1--12

DOI: 10.1007/s10853-019-03765-5

Type: article

Ratcheting wear of a cobalt-chromium alloy during reciprocated self-mated dry sliding

P.S.G. Cross,

G. Limbert,

Dave Stewart,

& R.J.K. Wood

, 2019 , Wear , 426–427 (Part B) , 1142--1151

DOI: 10.1016/j.wear.2018.12.077

Type: article