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EPSRC Equipment Account - Dr A Hector Enabling Microfocus

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

Electrochemical deposition of bismuth telluride thick layers onto nickel
C. Lei, K.S. Ryder, M. Burton & I. Nandhakumar, 2016, Electrochemistry Communications, 66, 1-4
DOI: 10.1016/j.elecom.2016.02.005
Type: article
Evaluation of nanocrystalline Sn3N4 derived from ammonolysis of Sn(NEt2)4as a negative electrode material for Li-ion and Na-ion batteries
Xianji Li, Andrew L. Hector, John R. Owen & S. Imran U. Shah, 2016, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 4(14), 5081-5087
DOI: 10.1039/c5ta08287k
Type: article
Speciation in diethanolamine-moderated TiO2 precursor sols and their use in film formation
Wafa Al-Arjan, Andrew Hector & William Levason, 2016, Journal of Sol-Gel Science and Technology, 1-22
DOI: 10.1007/s10971-016-4032-1
Type: article
Electrodeposition of Protocrystalline Germanium from Supercritical Difluoromethane
Charles Cummings, Philip N. Bartlett, David Pugh, Gill Reid, William Levason, Mahboba Hasan, Andrew Hector, Joe Spencer, David C. Smith, Samuel Marks & Richard Beanland, 2016, ChemElectroChem, 3(5), 726-733
DOI: 10.1002/celc.201500539
Type: article
Sol–gel preparation of well-adhered films and long range ordered inverse opal films of BaTiO3 and Bi2Ti2O7
W. Al-Arjan, M. Algaradah, J. Brewer & A. Hector, 2016, Materials Research Bulletin, 74, 234-240
DOI: 10.1016/j.materresbull.2015.10.038
Type: article