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Research project

ADEPT Programme Grant

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Philip Bartlett

Professor of Chemistry

Research interests

  • Electrochemistry
  • Bioelectrochemistry
  • Templated electrodeposition of nanomaterials
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Email: [email protected]

Other researchers

Professor Gill Reid

PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY

Research interests

  • Synthetic inorganic chemistry
  • Design and synthesis of new macrocyclic and multidentate ligands involving donor atoms from Groups 15 (P, As, Sb, Bi) and 16 (S, Se, Te)
  • Coordination chemistry with s-, p-, d- and f-block metal ions
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Email: [email protected]

Professor David Smith MA, DPhil

Professor
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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. 
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Email: [email protected]

Professor Kees De Groot

Professor

Research interests

  • Radio-Frequency and Microwave Devices
  • 2 dimensional Transition Metal Dichalcogenides  Transistors
  • Smart Radiative Cooling and RF control of smart glass using metal oxides such as Al-doped ZnO and W-doped VO2
Connect with Kees

Email: [email protected]

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

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
Solvothermal water-diethylene glycol synthesis of LiCoPO4 and effects of surface treatments on lithium battery performance
Min Zhang, Nuria Garcia-Araez, Andrew L. Hector, John R. Owen, Robert Palgrave, Michael Palmer & Samantha Soule, 2019, RSC Advances, 9(2), 740-752
DOI: 10.1039/c8ra08785g
Type: article
Electrodeposition of crystalline HgTe from a non-aqueous plating bath
Gabriela Kissling, Mohsin Aziz, Andrew Lodge, Wenjian Zhang, Mehrdad Alibouri, Ruomeng Huang, Andrew L. Hector, Gillian Reid, Cornelis De Groot, Richard Beanland, Philip N. Bartlett & David C. Smith, 2018, Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 165(16), D802-D807
DOI: 10.1149/2.0421816jes
Type: article
Neutral and cationic tungsten(VI) fluoride complexes with tertiary phosphine and arsine coordination
William Levason, Francesco Monzittu, Gillian Reid & Wenjian Zhang, 2018, Chemical Communications, 54(83), 11681-11684
DOI: 10.1039/C8CC05598J
Type: article