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Topological Engineering Translation Grant

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor David Smith MA, DPhil

Professor
Connect with David

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

Other 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

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

Emeritus Professor William Levason

Research interests
  • Coordination chemistry, group 15 and 16 donor ligands, early transition metal chemistry, main group metal chemistry 
Connect with William

Email: wxl@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

Dr Pier-John Sazio

Principal Research Fellow
Connect with Pier-John

Email: P.A.Sazio@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

Trivalent scandium, yttrium and lanthanide complexes with thia-oxa and selena-oxa macrocycles and crown ether coordination
Martin J. D. Champion, Paolo Farina, William Levason & Gillian Reid, 2013, Dalton Transactions, 42(36), 13179-13189
DOI: 10.1039/C3DT51405F
Type: article
Phosphine and diphosphine complexes of silicon(IV) halides
William Levason, David Pugh & Gillian Reid, 2013, Inorganic Chemistry, 52(9), 5185-5193
DOI: 10.1021/ic400077z
Type: article
Tin(ii) fluoride vs. tin(ii) chloride – a comparison of their coordination chemistry with neutral ligands
Chitra Gurnani, Andrew L. Hector, E. Jager, William Levason, David Pugh & Gillian Reid, 2013, Dalton Transactions, 42(23), 8364-8374
DOI: 10.1039/c3dt50743b
Type: article
Electrodeposition of germanium from supercritical fluids
Jie Ke, P.N. Bartlett, David Cook, Timothy L. Easun, Michael W. George, William Levason, Gillian Reid, David C. Smith, Wenta Su & Wenjian Zhang, 2012, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 14(4), 1517-1528
DOI: 10.1039/C1CP22555C
Type: article
Preparation and structures of coordination complexes of the very hard Lewis acids ZrF4 and HfF4
Sophie L. Benjamin, William Levason, David Pugh, Gillian Reid & Wenjian Zhang, 2012, Dalton Transactions, 41(40), 12548-12557
DOI: 10.1039/c2dt31501g
Type: article
Chemical vapor deposition of GaP and GaAs thin films from [nBu2Ga(µ-EtBu2)2GanBu2] (E= P or As) and Ga(PtBu2)3
Fei Cheng, Kathryn George, Andrew L. Hector, Marek Jura, Anna Kroner, William Levason, John Nesbitt, Gillian Reid, David C. Smith & James W. Wilson, 2011, Chemistry of Materials, 23(23), 5217-5222
DOI: 10.1021/cm202158a
Type: article
The chemistry of the p-block elements with thioether, selenoether and telluroether ligands
William Levason, Gillian Reid & Wenjian Zhang, 2011, Dalton Transactions, 40(34), 8491-8506
DOI: 10.1039/C1DT10317B
Type: article