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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: [email protected]

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: [email protected]

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