Research project

EPSRC Equipment Account - Dr A Hector Enabling Microfocus

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: [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

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