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EP/K009877/1 - Andrew Hector - Enabling microfocus and thin film x-ray scattering

Staff

Lead researcher

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

Other researchers

Dr Mark Light

X Ray Diffraction Manager

Research interests

  • Single crystal X-ray diffraction
  • Powder and materials X-ray diffraction
  • Total scattering and pair distribution function analysis
Connect with Mark

Email: M.E.Light@soton.ac.uk

Research outputs

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
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
Tungsten dichalcogenide WS2xSe2-2x films via single source precursor low-pressure CVD and their (thermo-)electric properties
Vikesh Sethi, Danielle Runacres, Victoria Greenacre, Li Shao, Andrew L. Hector, William Levason, Kees De Groot, Gillian Reid & Ruomeng Huang, 2023, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 9635 - 9645
DOI: 10.1039/D3TA00466J
Type: article
Large-area synthesis of high electrical performance MoS2 by a commercially scalable atomic layer deposition process
Nikolaos Aspiotis, Katrina Morgan, Benjamin März, Knut Müller-Caspary, Martin Ebert, Edwin Weatherby, Mark Light, Kevin Chung-Che Huang, Daniel W. Hewak, Sayani Majumdar & Ioannis Zeimpekis, 2023, npj 2D Mater Appl, 7
DOI: 10.1038/s41699-023-00379-z
Type: article
Anodic Sb2S3 electrodeposition from a single source precursor for resistive random-access memory devices
A.G. Wallace, R.P. King, N. Zhelev, A.H. Jaafar, W. Levason, R. Huang, G. Reid & P.N. Bartlett, 2022, Electrochimica Acta, 432
DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2022.141162
Type: article