Dr D C Smith EPSRC Topological Engineering

Staff

Lead researcher

Professor David Smith MA, DPhil

Professor

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

Other researchers

Emeritus Professor Greg Parker

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Email: gjp1@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

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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

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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.

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Email: A.L.Hector@soton.ac.uk

Professor Philip Bartlett

Professor of Chemistry

Research interests

Electrochemistry
Bioelectrochemistry
Templated electrodeposition of nanomaterials

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

Dr Pier-John Sazio

Principal Research Fellow

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

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Electrochemistry

A well-established world-class group researching energy charge transfer that affects many facets of life.

Research outputs

Raman spectroscopy of optical transitions and vibrational energies of ~1 nm HgTe extreme nanowires within single walled carbon nanotubes

Joseph Spencer, John Nesbitt, Harrison Trewhitt, Reza J. Kashtiban, Gavin Bell, Victor G. Ivanov, Eric Faulques, Jeremy Sloan & David C. Smith, 2014, ACS Nano, 8(9), 9044-9052

DOI: 10.1021/nn5023632

Type: article

Measurements of the population lifetime of D band and G? band phonons in single-walled carbon nanotubes

John M. Nesbitt & David C. Smith, 2013, Nano Letters, 13(2), 416-422

DOI: 10.1021/nl303569n

Type: article

Chemical vapor deposition of GaP and GaAs thin films from [ⁿBu₂Ga(µ-E^tBu₂)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

Coordination complexes of silicon and germanium halides with neutral ligands

William Levason, Gillian Reid & Wenjian Zhang, 2011, Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 255(11-12), 1319-1341

DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2010.11.019

Type: article

Hypervalent neutral O-donor ligand complexes of silicon tetrafluoride, comparisons with other group 14 tetrafluorides and a search for soft donor ligand complexes

Kathryn George, Andrew L. Hector, William Levason, Gillian Reid, George Sanderson, Michael Webster & Wenjian Zhang, 2011, Dalton Transactions, 40(7), 1584-1593

DOI: 10.1039/c0dt01115k

Type: article