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Topological Engineering Translation Grant

Staff

Lead researcher

Professor David Smith MA, DPhil

Professor
Connect with David

Email: D.C.Smith@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Professor Philip Bartlett

Professor of Chemistry

Research interests

  • Electrochemistry
  • Bioelectrochemistry
  • Templated electrodeposition of nanomaterials
Connect with Philip

Email: P.N.Bartlett@soton.ac.uk

Professor Gill Reid

PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY

Research interests

  • Synthetic inorganic chemistry
  • Design and synthesis of new macrocyclic and multidentate ligands involving donor atoms from Groups 15 (P, As, Sb, Bi) and 16 (S, Se, Te)
  • Coordination chemistry with s-, p-, d- and f-block metal ions
Connect with Gill

Email: G.Reid@soton.ac.uk

Emeritus Professor William Levason

Research interests

  • Coordination chemistry, group 15 and 16 donor ligands, early transition metal chemistry, main group metal chemistry 
Connect with William

Email: wxl@soton.ac.uk

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

Dr Pier-John Sazio

Principal Research Fellow
Connect with Pier-John

Email: P.A.Sazio@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Electrochemistry

A well-established world-class group researching energy charge transfer that affects many facets of life.

Nanophotonics Group

We perform fundamental optical physics and materials research. This is critical for the discovery and development of new and improved optoelectronic technologies.

Research outputs

Electrodeposition of germanium from supercritical fluids
Jie Ke, P.N. Bartlett, David Cook, Timothy L. Easun, Michael W. George, William Levason, Gillian Reid, David C. Smith, Wenta Su & Wenjian Zhang, 2012, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 14(4), 1517-1528
DOI: 10.1039/C1CP22555C
Type: article
Preparation and structures of coordination complexes of the very hard Lewis acids ZrF4 and HfF4
Sophie L. Benjamin, William Levason, David Pugh, Gillian Reid & Wenjian Zhang, 2012, Dalton Transactions, 41(40), 12548-12557
DOI: 10.1039/c2dt31501g
Type: article
Chemical vapor deposition of GaP and GaAs thin films from [nBu2Ga(µ-EtBu2)2GanBu2] (E= P or As) and Ga(PtBu2)3
Fei Cheng, Kathryn George, Andrew L. Hector, Marek Jura, Anna Kroner, William Levason, John Nesbitt, Gillian Reid, David C. Smith & James W. Wilson, 2011, Chemistry of Materials, 23(23), 5217-5222
DOI: 10.1021/cm202158a
Type: article
The chemistry of the p-block elements with thioether, selenoether and telluroether ligands
William Levason, Gillian Reid & Wenjian Zhang, 2011, Dalton Transactions, 40(34), 8491-8506
DOI: 10.1039/C1DT10317B
Type: article
Coordination complexes of silicon and germanium halides with neutral ligands
William Levason, Gillian Reid & Wenjian Zhang, 2011, Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 255(11-12), 1319-1341
DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2010.11.019
Type: article