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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

Evolution of structural, mechanical and tribological properties of Ni–P/MWCNT coatings as a function of annealing temperature

Qianzhi Wang, Mauro Callisti, Alberto Miranda, Brian McKay, Ioanna Deligkiozi, Tatjana Kosanovic Milickovic, Alexandros Zoikis-Karathanasis, Kostas Hrissagis, Luca Magagnin & Tomas Polcar, 2016, Surface and Coatings Technology, 302, 195-201

DOI: 10.1016/j.surfcoat.2016.06.011

Type: article

Bubbles formation in helium ion irradiated Cu/W multilayer nanocomposites: effects on structure and mechanical properties

Mauro Callisti, M. Karlik & Tomas Polcar, 2016, Journal of Nuclear Materials, 473, 18-27

DOI: 10.1016/j.jnucmat.2016.02.006

Type: article

Electrochemical deposition of bismuth telluride thick layers onto nickel

C. Lei, K.S. Ryder, M. Burton & I. Nandhakumar, 2016, Electrochemistry Communications, 66, 1-4

DOI: 10.1016/j.elecom.2016.02.005

Type: article

Evaluation of nanocrystalline Sn3N4 derived from ammonolysis of Sn(NEt2)4as a negative electrode material for Li-ion and Na-ion batteries

Xianji Li, Andrew L. Hector, John R. Owen & S. Imran U. Shah, 2016, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 4(14), 5081-5087

DOI: 10.1039/c5ta08287k

Type: article

Speciation in diethanolamine-moderated TiO2 precursor sols and their use in film formation

Wafa Al-Arjan, Andrew Hector & William Levason, 2016, Journal of Sol-Gel Science and Technology, 1-22

DOI: 10.1007/s10971-016-4032-1

Type: article

Electrodeposition of Protocrystalline Germanium from Supercritical Difluoromethane

Charles Cummings, Philip N. Bartlett, David Pugh, Gill Reid, William Levason, Mahboba Hasan, Andrew Hector, Joe Spencer, David C. Smith, Samuel Marks & Richard Beanland, 2016, ChemElectroChem, 3(5), 726-733

DOI: 10.1002/celc.201500539

Type: article

Sol–gel preparation of well-adhered films and long range ordered inverse opal films of BaTiO3 and Bi2Ti2O7

W. Al-Arjan, M. Algaradah, J. Brewer & A. Hector, 2016, Materials Research Bulletin, 74, 234-240

DOI: 10.1016/j.materresbull.2015.10.038

Type: article