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Research project

ADEPT Programme Grant

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Philip Bartlett

Professor of Chemistry
Research interests
  • Electrochemistry
  • Bioelectrochemistry
  • Templated electrodeposition of nanomaterials
Connect with Philip

Email: P.N.Bartlett@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Professor Gill Reid

PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY
Research interests
  • Synthetic inorganic chemistry
  • Design and synthesis of new macrocyclic and multidentate ligands involving donor atoms from Groups 15 (P, As, Sb, Bi) and 16 (S, Se, Te)
  • Coordination chemistry with s-, p-, d- and f-block metal ions
Connect with Gill

Email: G.Reid@soton.ac.uk

Professor David Smith MA, DPhil

Professor
Connect with David

Email: D.C.Smith@soton.ac.uk

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

Professor Kees De Groot

Professor
Research interests
  • Radio-Frequency and Microwave Devices
  • 2 dimensional Transition Metal Dichalcogenides  Transistors
  • Smart Radiative Cooling and RF control of smart glass using metal oxides such as Al-doped ZnO and W-doped VO2
Connect with Kees

Email: chdg@southampton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

Integrated ovonic threshold switching selector and resistive switching memory 1S1R in electrodeposited ZnTe thin films
Ayoub H. Jaafar Hamdiyah, Haytham Hussein, Tongjun Zhang, Nikolay Zhelev, Neil T. Kemp, Gillian Reid, Kees De Groot, Philip N. Bartlett & Ruomeng Huang, 2025, Advanced Materials Technologies
DOI: 10.1002/admt.202500168
Type: article
Molecular precursors for the electrodeposition of 2D-layered metal chalcogenides
Philip N. Bartlett, C.H.Kees de Groot, Victoria K. Greenacre, Ruomeng Huang, Yasir J. Noori, Gillian Reid & Shibin Thomas, 2025, Nature Reviews Chemistry, 9(2), 88-101
DOI: 10.1038/s41570-024-00671-6
Type: review
Toward a procedure for the template free growth of Te nanowires across an insulator by electrodeposition
Alexander W. Black, Nema M. Abdelazim, Yasir J. Noori, Yisong Han, Nikolay Zhelev, Shibin Thomas, Wenjian Zhang, Gillian Reid, Richard Beanland, C.H.Kees de Groot & Philip N. Bartlett, 2024, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 128(43), 18634-18640
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.4c05915
Type: article
Structural diversity of Sn(II) phosphine oxide complexes with weakly coordinating anions and comparisons with related Ge(II) and Pb(II) species
Rhys P. King, Kelsey R. Cairns, Charlotte Denman, William Levason, Mark E. Light & Gillian Reid, 2024, European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, 27(23)
DOI: 10.1002/ejic.202400195
Type: article
Fractal-like gold nanonetworks formed by templated electrodeposition through 3D-mesoporous silica films
Li Shao, Gilles E. Moehl, Ruomeng Huang & Andrew L. Hector, 2023, RSC Advances, 13(46), 32660-32671
DOI: 10.1039/d3ra06588j
Type: article
Cathodic stripping of elemental Te in dichloromethane
D.A. Cook, S.J. Reeves, W. Zhang, G. Reid, W. Levason & P.N. Bartlett, 2023, Electrochimica Acta, 465
DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2023.142997
Type: article
Ultralow thermal conductivity and improved thermoelectric properties of Al-doped ZnO by In Situ O2 plasma treatment
Vikesh Sethi, Kai Sun, Daniel Newbrook, Danielle Runacres, Tongjun Zhang, Victoria Greenacre, Kees De Groot & Ruomeng Huang, 2023, Small Structures, 4(11)
DOI: 10.1002/sstr.202300140
Type: article