Research project

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Lead researchers:

Professor Andrew Hector
Other researchers:

Dr Mark Light
Research funder:

EPSRC
Status:

Not active

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Andrew Hector

Head of School

Research interests

Materials synthesis, including metal nitrides, thin film materials, sol-gel and solvothermal …
Materials characterisation – powder and thin film diffraction, microscopy and spectroscopy te…
Electrochemistry, including charge storage in battery and supercapacitor type cells, and elec…

Connect with Andrew

Email: A.L.Hector@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Dr Mark Light

Associate Professor

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

Using polyoxometalates to enhance the capacity of lithium-oxygen batteries

Thomas Homewood, Nuria Garcia-Araez, John R. Owen, James Frith, Vivek Padmanabhan, Dino Tonti & Nieves Casañ-Pastor, 2018, Chemical Communications, 1-6

DOI: 10.1039/C8CC03832E

Type: article

Competing mechanisms on the strength of ion-irradiated Zr/Nb nanoscale multilayers

M. Callisti, M. Karlik & T. Polcar, 2018, Scripta Materialia, 152, 31-35

DOI: 10.1016/j.scriptamat.2018.03.039

Type: article

Electrodeposition of tin nanowires from a dichloromethane based electrolyte

Andrew L. Hector, Andrew Lodge, Mahboba Hasan, Philip N. Bartlett, Richard Beanland, Reza Jalili Kashtiban, William Levason, Gillian Reid, Jeremy Sloan, David C. Smith & Wenjian Zhang, 2018, RSC Advances, 8(42), 24013-24020

DOI: 10.1039/C8RA03183E

Type: article

Combination of solid state and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy to explore effects of porosity in sol-gel derived BaTiO3 thin films

Joshua Whittam, Andrew L. Hector, Christopher Kavanagh, John R. Owen & Gillian Reid, 2018, ACS Omega, 3(6), 6880-6887

DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.8b00173

Type: article

In situ TEM observations on the structural evolution of a nanocrystalline W-Ti alloy at elevated temperatures

M. Callisti, F.D. Tichelaar & T. Polcar, 2018, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 749, 1000-1008

DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2018.03.335

Type: article

Yb-doped mixed sesquioxide thin films grown by pulsed laser deposition

Jake J. Prentice, James A. Grant-Jacob, David P. Shepherd, Robert W. Eason & Jacob I. Mackenzie, 2018, Journal of Crystal Growth, 491, 51-56

DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrysgro.2018.03.039

Type: article

Effect of layer thickness on the mechanical behavior of oxidation-strengthened Zr/Nb nanoscale multilayers

M.A. Monclus, M. Callisti, T. Polcar, L.W. Yang, J.M. Molina-Aldareguia & J Llorca, 2018, Journal of Materials Science, 53(8), 5860-5878

DOI: 10.1007/s10853-017-1665-6

Type: article