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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: [email protected]

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: [email protected]

Research outputs

Using polyoxometalates to enhance the capacity of lithium-oxygen batteries
Thomas Homewood, Nuria Garcia-Araez, John R. Owen, James Frith, Vivek Padmanabhan, Dino Tonti & Nieves Casañ-Pastor, 2018, Chemical Communications, 1-6
DOI: 10.1039/C8CC03832E
Type: article
Competing mechanisms on the strength of ion-irradiated Zr/Nb nanoscale multilayers
M. Callisti, M. Karlik & T. Polcar, 2018, Scripta Materialia, 152, 31-35
DOI: 10.1016/j.scriptamat.2018.03.039
Type: article
Electrodeposition of tin nanowires from a dichloromethane based electrolyte
Andrew L. Hector, Andrew Lodge, Mahboba Hasan, Philip N. Bartlett, Richard Beanland, Reza Jalili Kashtiban, William Levason, Gillian Reid, Jeremy Sloan, David C. Smith & Wenjian Zhang, 2018, RSC Advances, 8(42), 24013-24020
DOI: 10.1039/C8RA03183E
Type: article
Combination of solid state and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy to explore effects of porosity in sol-gel derived BaTiO3 thin films
Joshua Whittam, Andrew L. Hector, Christopher Kavanagh, John R. Owen & Gillian Reid, 2018, ACS Omega, 3(6), 6880-6887
DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.8b00173
Type: article
In situ TEM observations on the structural evolution of a nanocrystalline W-Ti alloy at elevated temperatures
M. Callisti, F.D. Tichelaar & T. Polcar, 2018, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 749, 1000-1008
DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2018.03.335
Type: article