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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 chemical vapor deposition approach for Sb2Te3 thin film micro-thermoelectric generators
Daniel W Newbrook , Stephen P. Richards, Victoria Greenacre, Andrew L. Hector, William Levason, Gillian Reid, Cornelis De Groot & Ruomeng Huang, 2020, ACS Applied Energy Materials, 3(6), 5840-5846
DOI: 10.1021/acsaem.0c00766
Type: article
Synthesis of vanadium nitride-hard carbon composites from cellulose and their performance for sodium ion batteries
Hang Cheng, Nuria Garcia-Araez & Andrew L. Hector, 2020, ACS Applied Energy Materials, 3(5), 4286-4294
DOI: 10.1021/acsaem.0c00003
Type: article
Using GISAXS to detect correlations between the locations of gold particles electrodeposited from aqueous solution
Gilles, Ernest Heinrich Karl Moehl, Philip N. Bartlett & Andrew L. Hector, 2020, Langmuir, 36(16), 4432-4438
DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.9b03400
Type: article
Thioether complexes of WSCl4, WOCl4 and WSCl3 and evaluation of thiochloride complexes as CVD precursors for WS2 thin films
Danielle E. Smith, Victoria Greenacre, Andrew L. Hector, William Levason, Gillian Reid, Fred Robinson, Shibin Thomas & Ruomeng Huang, 2020, Dalton Transactions, 49(8), 2496-2504
DOI: 10.1039/D0DT00068J
Type: article
The effect of organoclay loading and matrix morphology on charge transport and dielectric breakdown in an ethylene-based polymer blend
Allison, Vivienne Shaw, Alun Vaughan & Thomas Andritsch, 2019, Journal of Materials Science, 1-12
DOI: 10.1007/s10853-019-03765-5
Type: article