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

Confining the growth of mesoporous silica films into nanospaces

Samantha Soulé, Gilles E. Moehl, Ruomeng Huang, Yasir J. Noori, Kian Shen Kiang, C. H. Kees de Groot, Richard Beanland, David C. Smith & Andrew L. Hector, 2022, Nanoscale Advances, 4(4), 1105-1111

DOI: 10.1039/d1na00654a

Type: article

Tungsten(VI) selenide tetrachloride, WSeCl₄ - synthesis, properties, coordination complexes and application of [WSeCl₄(SenBu₂)] for CVD growth of WSe₂ thin films

Victoria Greenacre, Andrew L. Hector, Ruomeng Huang, William Levason, Vikesh Sethi & Gillian Reid, 2022, Dalton Transactions, 51(6), 2400-2412

DOI: 10.1039/d1dt03980f

Type: article

Enhancing the performance of hard carbon for sodium-ion batteries by coating with silicon nitride/oxycarbide nanoparticles

Hang Cheng, Nuria Garcia-Araez & Andrew L. Hector, 2021, Materials Advances, 2(24), 7956-7966

DOI: 10.1039/D1MA00613D

Type: article

Low pressure CVD of GeE (E = Te, Se, S) thin films from alkylgermanium chalcogenolate precursors and effect of the deposition temperature on the thermoelectric performance of GeTe

Fred Robinson, Vikesh Sethi, Kees De Groot, Andrew L. Hector, Ruomeng Huang & Gillian Reid, 2021, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 13(40), 47773-47783

DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c14237

Type: article

nBu2Sn(SnBu)2 and nBu3SnEnBu (E = S or Se) - effective single source precursors for the CVD of SnS and SnSe thermoelectric thin films

Fred Robinson, Peter J. Curran, Kees De Groot, Duncan Hardie, Andrew L. Hector, Katherine Holloway, Ruomeng Huang, Daniel W Newbrook & Gillian Reid, 2021, Materials Advances, 2(14), 4814-4823

DOI: 10.1039/D1MA00331C

Type: article

Low temperature CVD of thermoelectric SnTe thin films from the single source precursor, [nBu3Sn(TenBu)]

Fred Robinson, Daniel W Newbrook , Peter Curran, Kees De Groot, Duncan Hardie, Andrew L. Hector, Ruomeng Huang & Gillian Reid, 2021, Dalton Transactions, 50(3), 998-1006

DOI: 10.1039/D0DT03760E

Type: article

Improved thermoelectric performance of Bi₂Se₃ alloyed Bi₂Te₃ thin films via low pressure chemical vapour deposition

Daniel W Newbrook , Stephen P Richards, Victoria Greenacre, Andrew L. Hector, William Levason, Gillian Reid, C.H. De Groot & Ruomeng Huang, 2020, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 848

DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2020.156523

Type: article