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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
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

Professor Philip Bartlett

Professor of Chemistry

Research interests

  • Electrochemistry
  • Bioelectrochemistry
  • Templated electrodeposition of nanomaterials
Connect with Philip

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

Supramolecular assemblies of germanium(ii) halides with O-, S- and Se-donor macrocycles – the effects of donor atom type upon structure
Andrew L. Hector, William Levason, Michael Webster, Gillian Reid & Wenjian Zhang, 2011, Dalton Transactions, 40(3), 694-700
DOI: 10.1039/c0dt00749h
Type: article
Deposition in supercritical fluids: from silver to semiconductors
Jixin Yang, Tom Hasell, David C. Smith & Steven M. Howdle, 2009, Journal of Materials Chemistry, 19(45), 8560
DOI: 10.1039/b911224c
Type: article
Continuous flow supercritical chemical fluid deposition of optoelectronic quality CdS
Jixin Yang, Jason R. Hyde, James W. Wilson, Kanad Mallik, Pier J.A. Sazio, Paul O'Brien, Mohamed A. Malik, Mohammad Afzaal, Chinh Q. Nguyen, Michael W. George, Steven M. Howdle & David C. Smith, 2009, Advanced Materials, 21(41), 4115-4119
DOI: 10.1002/adma.200803751
Type: article
Electrodeposition of metals from supercritical fluids
Jie Ke, Wenta Su, Steven M. Howdle, Michael W. George, David Cook, Magda Perdjon-Abel, Philip N. Bartlett, Wenjian Zhang, Fei Cheng, William Levason, Gillian Reid, Jason Hyde, James Wilson, David C. Smith, Kanad Mallik & Pier Sazio, 2009, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 106(35), 14768-14772
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0901986106
Type: article
Coordination networks derived from germanium(ii) thioether macrocyclic complexes—the first authenticated chalcogenoether complexes of Ge(ii)
Fei Cheng, Andrew L. Hector, William Levason, Gillian Reid, Michael Webster & Wenjian Zhang, 2008, Chemical Communications(43), 5508-5510
DOI: 10.1039/b809444f
Type: article