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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

Synthesis of hard carbon-TiN/TiC composites by reacting cellulose with TiCl4 followed by carbothermal nitridation/reduction
Hang Cheng, Nuria Garcia-Araez, Andrew L. Hector & Samantha Soule, 2019, Inorganic Chemistry, 58(9), 5776-5786
DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.9b00116
Type: article
Electrodeposition of bismuth telluride from a weakly coordinating, non-aqueous solution
Lingcong Meng, Katarina Cicvarić, Andrew L. Hector, C.H. de Groot & Philip N. Bartlett, 2019, Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, 839, 134-140
DOI: 10.1016/j.jelechem.2019.03.021
Type: article
Ratcheting wear of a cobalt-chromium alloy during reciprocated self-mated dry sliding
P.S.G. Cross, G. Limbert, Dave Stewart & R.J.K. Wood, 2019, Wear, 426–427(Part B), 1142-1151
DOI: 10.1016/j.wear.2018.12.077
Type: article
Solid molybdenum nitride microdisc electrodes: fabrication, characterisation, and application to the reduction of peroxodisulfate
Saiful Arifin Bin Shafiee, Andrew L. Hector & Guy Denuault, 2019, Electrochimica Acta, 293, 184-190
DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2018.10.046
Type: article
[Ge(TenBu)4]-a single precursor for the chemical vapour deposition of germanium telluride thin films
Samantha, Louise Hawken, Ruomeng Huang, Cornelis De Groot, Andrew L. Hector, Marek Jura, William Levason & G.B.G. Stenning, 2019, Dalton Transactions, 48, 117-124
DOI: 10.1039/C8DT03263G
Type: article