Research project

EPSRC Equipment Account - Dr A Hector Enabling Microfocus

Lead researcher:

Professor Andrew Hector
Other researchers:

Dr Mark Light
Research funder:

EPSRC
Status:

Not active

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

AC-assisted deposition of aggregate free silica films with vertical pore structure

Gilles, Ernest Heinrich Karl Moehl, Tauqir Nasir, Yisong Han, Yasir Noori, Ruomeng Huang, Richard Beanland, Philip N. Bartlett & Andrew L. Hector, 2022, Nanoscale, 14(14), 5404-5411

DOI: 10.1039/D1NR08253A

Type: article

Increasing the diameter of vertically aligned, hexagonally ordered pores in mesoporous silica thin films

Nabil, Ahmed - Nooh Mohamed, Yisong Han, Andrew L. Hector, Anthony Houghton, Elwin Hunter-Sellars, Gillian Reid, Daryl Williams & Wenjian Zhang, 2022, Langmuir, 38(7), 2257-2266

DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.1c02854

Type: article

Confining the growth of mesoporous silica films into nanospaces

Samantha Soulé, Gilles E. Moehl, Ruomeng Huang, Yasir J. Noori, Kian Shen Kiang, C. H. Kees de Groot, Richard Beanland, David C. Smith & Andrew L. Hector, 2022, Nanoscale Advances, 4(4), 1105-1111

DOI: 10.1039/d1na00654a

Type: article

Tungsten(VI) selenide tetrachloride, WSeCl₄ - synthesis, properties, coordination complexes and application of [WSeCl₄(SenBu₂)] for CVD growth of WSe₂ thin films

Victoria Greenacre, Andrew L. Hector, Ruomeng Huang, William Levason, Vikesh Sethi & Gillian Reid, 2022, Dalton Transactions, 51(6), 2400-2412

DOI: 10.1039/d1dt03980f

Type: article

Enhancing the performance of hard carbon for sodium-ion batteries by coating with silicon nitride/oxycarbide nanoparticles

Hang Cheng, Nuria Garcia-Araez & Andrew L. Hector, 2021, Materials Advances, 2(24), 7956-7966

DOI: 10.1039/D1MA00613D

Type: article