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EPSRC Equipment Account - Dr A Hector Enabling Microfocus

Staff

Lead researchers

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

Associate Professor

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

Selective oxidation-induced strengthening of Zr/Nb nanoscale multilayers
M.A. Monclus, M. Callisti, T. Polcar, L.W. Yang, J. Llorca & J.M. Molina-Aldareguia, 2017, Acta Materialia, 1-10
DOI: 10.1016/j.actamat.2016.09.021
Type: article
Fermi level tuning of ZnO films through supercycled atomic layer deposition
Ruomeng Huang, Sheng Ye, Kai Sun, Kian Kiang & Cornelis De Groot, 2017, Nanoscale Research Letters, 12
DOI: 10.1186/s11671-017-2308-1
Type: article
Supercritical fluid electrodeposition, structural and electrical characterisation of tellurium nanowires
Philip N. Bartlett, David Cook, Mahboba, Mohammed Hasan, Andrew L. Hector, Samuel Marks, Jay P. Naik, Gillian Reid, Jeremy Sloan, David C. Smith, Joe Spencer & Zondy Webber, 2017, RSC Advances, 7(65), 40720-40726
DOI: 10.1039/c7ra07092f
Type: article
Surface modification and porosimetry of vertically aligned hexagonal mesoporous silica films
Calum Robertson, Andrew W. Lodge, Peter Basa, Marina Carravetta, Andrew L. Hector, Reza Jalili Kashtiban, Jeremy Sloan, David C. Smith, Joseph Spencer & Alain Walcarius, 2016, RSC Advances, 6, 113432-113441
DOI: 10.1039/C6RA23059H
Type: article
Microstructure and electrical properties of co-sputtered Cu embedded amorphous SiC
Junqing Fan, Liudi Jiang, Le Zhong, Robert P. Gowers, Katrina Morgan & C.H. de Groot, 2016, Materials Letters, 178, 60-63
DOI: 10.1016/j.matlet.2016.04.144
Type: article