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Staff

Lead researchers

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

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

Effects of ammonolysis and of sol-gel titanium oxide nitride coating on carbon fibres for use in flexible supercapacitors

Junxian Zhang, Andrew L. Hector, Samantha Soule, Qinghua Zhang & Xin Zhao, 2018, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 6(12), 5208-5216

DOI: 10.1039/c7ta11142h

Type: article

Combining single source chemical vapour deposition precursors to explore the phase space of titanium oxynitride thin films

Kelly Rees, Emanuela Lorusso, Samuel Cosham, Alexander N. Kulak & Geoffrey Hyett, 2018, Dalton Transactions

DOI: 10.1039/c7dt04694d

Type: article

Synthesis and properties of MoCl4 complexes with thio- and seleno-ethers and their use for chemical vapour deposition of MoSe2 and MoS2 films

Yao-Pang Chang, Andrew L. Hector, William Levason, Gillian Reid & Joshua Whittam, 2018, Dalton Transactions, 47(7), 2406-2414

DOI: 10.1039/C7DT04352J

Type: article

Tin(IV) chalcogenoether complexes as single source precursors for the chemical vapour deposition of SnE2 and SnE (E = S, Se) thin films

Chitra Gurnani, Samantha, Louise Hawken, Andrew L. Hector, Ruomeng Huang, Marek Jura, William Levason, James Perkins, Gillian Reid & Gavin Stenning, 2018, Dalton Transactions, 47(8), 2628-2637

DOI: 10.1039/C7DT03848H

Type: article

Pulsed laser deposition of crystalline garnet waveguides at a growth rate of 20 µm per hour

James A. Grant-Jacob, Stephen J. Beecher, Jake J. Prentice, David P. Shepherd, Jacob I. Mackenzie & Robert W. Eason, 2017, Surface and Coatings Technology

DOI: 10.1016/j.surfcoat.2017.12.008

Type: article

Compliance-free ZrO₂/ZrO_2−x/ZrO₂ resistive memory with controllable interfacial multistate switching behaviour

Ruomeng Huang, Xingzhao Yan, Sheng Ye, Reza J. Kashtiban, Richard Beanland, Katrina A. Morgan, Martin D.B. Charlton & C.H. de Groot, 2017, Nanoscale Research Letters, 12

DOI: 10.1186/s11671-017-2155-0

Type: article

Titanate nanotubes and nanosheets as a mechanical reinforcement of water-soluble polyamic acid

Christian Harito, Dmitry V. Bavykin, Mark E. Light & Frank C. Walsh, 2017, Composites Part B: Engineering, 124, 54-63

DOI: 10.1016/j.compositesb.2017.05.051

Type: article