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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

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
Combined size and texture-dependent deformation and strengthening mechanisms in Zr/Nb nano-multilayers
Mauro Callisti,
& Tomas Polcar
, 2017 , Acta Materialia , 124 , 247--260
DOI: 10.1016/j.actamat.2016.11.007
Type: article
Selective oxidation-induced strengthening of Zr/Nb nanoscale multilayers
M.A. Monclus,
M. Callisti,
T. Polcar,
L.W. Yang,
J. Llorca,
& J.M. Molina-Aldareguia
, 2017 , Acta Materialia , 1--10
DOI: 10.1016/j.actamat.2016.09.021
Type: article
Effect of oxidative surface treatments on charge storage at titanium nitride surfaces for supercapacitor applications
Benjamin Gray,
Andrew Hector,
Marek Jura,
John Owen,
& Joshua Whittam
, 2017 , Journal of Materials Chemistry A , 5 (9) , 4550--4559
DOI: 10.1039/C6TA08308K
Type: article
Observation of an order of magnitude increase in the rate photocatalysis for hierarchically porous anatase films synthesized from zinc titanate coatings
Nathanya J. Platt,
Karl M. Kaye,
Gregory J. Limburn,
Samuel D. Cosham,
Alexander N. Kulak,
Robert G. Palgrave,
& Geoffrey Hyett
, 2017 , Dalton Transactions , 46 (2) , 1975--1985
DOI: 10.1039/C6DT04431J
Type: article