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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

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
Electrodeposition of crystalline HgTe from a non-aqueous plating bath
Gabriela Kissling,
Mohsin Aziz,
Andrew Lodge,
Wenjian Zhang,
Mehrdad Alibouri,
Ruomeng Huang,
Andrew L. Hector,
Gillian Reid,
Cornelis De Groot,
Richard Beanland,
Philip N. Bartlett,
& David C. Smith
, 2018 , Journal of the Electrochemical Society , 165 (16) , D802--D807
DOI: 10.1149/2.0421816jes
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
Compositionally tunable ternary Bi2(Se1-xTex)3 and (Bi1-ySby)2Te3 thin films via low pressure chemical vapour deposition
Sophie Benjamin,
Cornelis De Groot,
Chitra Gurnani,
Samantha, Louise Hawken,
Andrew L. Hector,
Ruomeng Huang,
Marek Jura,
William Levason,
Eleanor Reid,
Gillian Reid,
Stephen Richards,
& Gavin B.G. Stenning
, 2018 , Journal of Materials Chemistry C , 6 (29) , 7734--7739
DOI: 10.1039/C8TC01285G
Type: article
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 , ChemComm , 1--6
DOI: 10.1039/C8CC03832E
Type: article