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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

Yb-doped mixed sesquioxide thin films grown by pulsed laser deposition
Jake J. Prentice, James A. Grant-Jacob, David P. Shepherd, Robert W. Eason & Jacob I. Mackenzie, 2018, Journal of Crystal Growth, 491, 51-56
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrysgro.2018.03.039
Type: article
Effect of layer thickness on the mechanical behavior of oxidation-strengthened Zr/Nb nanoscale multilayers
M.A. Monclus, M. Callisti, T. Polcar, L.W. Yang, J.M. Molina-Aldareguia & J Llorca, 2018, Journal of Materials Science, 53(8), 5860-5878
DOI: 10.1007/s10853-017-1665-6
Type: article
Effects of ammonolysis and of sol-gel titanium oxide nitride coating on carbon fibres for use in flexible supercapacitors
Junxian Zhang, Andrew L. Hector, Samantha Soule, Qinghua Zhang & Xin Zhao, 2018, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 6(12), 5208-5216
DOI: 10.1039/c7ta11142h
Type: article
Combining single source chemical vapour deposition precursors to explore the phase space of titanium oxynitride thin films
Kelly Rees, Emanuela Lorusso, Samuel Cosham, Alexander N. Kulak & Geoffrey Hyett, 2018, Dalton Transactions
DOI: 10.1039/c7dt04694d
Type: article
Synthesis and properties of MoCl4 complexes with thio- and seleno-ethers and their use for chemical vapour deposition of MoSe2 and MoS2 films
Yao-Pang Chang, Andrew L. Hector, William Levason, Gillian Reid & Joshua Whittam, 2018, Dalton Transactions, 47(7), 2406-2414
DOI: 10.1039/C7DT04352J
Type: article