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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

Effect of the addition of Si into V2O5 coatings
Roberto Mirabal-Rojas,
Sandra E. Rodil,
Giovanni Ramirez,
Tomas Polcar,
Enrique Camps,
& Ali Erdemir
, 2018 , Surface and Coatings Technology , 349 , 111--118
DOI: 10.1016/j.surfcoat.2018.05.052
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
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
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 a functional solid state memory material – germanium antimony telluride from a non-aqueous plating bath
Gabriela Kissling,
Ruomeng Huang,
Andrew Jolleys,
Sophie L Benjamin,
Andrew L. Hector,
Gillian Reid,
William Levason,
Cornelis De Groot,
& Philip N. Bartlett
, 2018 , Journal of the Electrochemical Society , 165 (11) , D557--D567
DOI: 10.1149/2.0981811jes
Type: article