Research project

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Lead researchers:

Professor Andrew Hector
Other researchers:

Dr Mark Light
Research funder:

EPSRC
Status:

Not active

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

Solvothermal synthesis of Sn₃N₄ as a high capacity sodium-ion anode: theoretical and experimental study of its storage mechanism

Samuel Fitch, Giannantonio Cibin, Steven Hepplestone, Nuria Garcia-Araez & Andrew L. Hector, 2020, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 8(32), 16437-16450

DOI: 10.1039/D0TA04034G

Type: article

Electrochemical deposition and thermoelectric characterisation of a semiconducting 2-D metal-organic framework thin film.

Maria De Lourdes Gonzalez Juarez, Eduardo Flores, Marisol Martin-Gonzalez , Iris S. Nandhakumar & Darren Bradshaw, 2020, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 8(26), 13197-13206

DOI: 10.1039/D0TA04939E

Type: article

A Critical Evaluation of the Effect of Electrode Thickness and Side Reactions on Electrolytes for Aluminum–Sulfur Batteries

John Lampkin, He Li, Liam Furness, Rinaldo Raccichini & Nuria Garcia-Araez, 2020, ChemSusChem, 13(13), 3514-3523

DOI: 10.1002/cssc.202000447

Type: article

Electrodeposition of MoS₂ from dichloromethane

Shibin Thomas, Danielle E. Smith, Victoria Greenacre, Yasir Noori, Andrew L. Hector, Cornelis De Groot, Gillian Reid & Philip N. Bartlett, 2020, Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 167(10)

DOI: 10.1149/1945-7111/ab9c88

Type: article

Thermoelectric properties of bismuth telluride thin films electrodeposited from a non-aqueous solution

Katarina Cicvarić, Lingcong Meng, Daniel W. Newbrook, Ruomeng Huang, Sheng Ye, Wenjian Zhang, Andrew L. Hector, Gillian Reid, Philip N. Bartlett & C.H. Kees De Groot, 2020, ACS Omega, 5(24), 14679-14688

DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.0c01284

Type: article