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Research project

Topological Engineering Translation Grant

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor David Smith MA, DPhil

Professor
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Other researchers

Professor Philip Bartlett

Professor of Chemistry

Research interests

  • Electrochemistry
  • Bioelectrochemistry
  • Templated electrodeposition of nanomaterials
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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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Emeritus Professor William Levason

Research interests

  • Coordination chemistry, group 15 and 16 donor ligands, early transition metal chemistry, main group metal chemistry 
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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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Dr Pier-John Sazio

Principal Research Fellow
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Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

Electrodeposition from supercritical fluids
P. Bartlett, D.A. Cook, M.W. George, A. Hector, J. Ke, W. Levason, G. Reid, D.C. Smith & W. Zhang, 2014, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 16(20), 9202-9219
DOI: 10.1039/c3cp54955k
Type: article
Halometallate complexes of germanium(II) and (IV): probing the role of cation, oxidation state and halide on the structural and electrochemical properties
Philip Bartlett, Charles Cummings, William Levason, David Pugh & Gillian Reid, 2014, Chemistry - A European Journal, 20(17), 5019-5027
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201400179
Type: article
Exploring secondary bonding in p-block chemistry – an experimental study of [GeX2{o-C6H4(PMe2)2}] using variable pressure single crystal X-ray diffraction
David R. Allan, Simon J. Coles, Kathryn George, Marek Jura, William Levason, Gillian Reid, Claire Wilson & Wenjian Zhang, 2014, CrystEngComm, 16(35), 8169-8176
DOI: 10.1039/C4CE00329B
Type: article
Synthesis, properties and structures of NbOF3 complexes and comparisons with NbOCl3 analogues
William Levason, Gillian Reid, Jonathan Trayer & Wenjian Zhang, 2014, Dalton Transactions, 43(9), 3649-3659
DOI: 10.1039/c3dt53322k
Type: article
Coordination chemistry of the main group elements with phosphine, arsine and stibine ligands
Jennifer Burt, William Levason & Gillian Reid, 2014, Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 260, 65-115
DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2013.09.020
Type: article