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Topological Engineering

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor David Smith MA, DPhil

Professor
Connect with David

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
Connect with Pier-John

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

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

The first examples of germanium tetrafluoride and tin tetrafluoride complexes with soft thioether coordination - synthesis, properties and crystal structures
Martin. F. Davis, William Levason, Gillian Reid, Micheal Webster & Wenjian Zhang, 2008, Dalton Transactions, 533-538
DOI: 10.1039/b713316b
Type: article