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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

Hypervalent neutral O-donor ligand complexes of silicon tetrafluoride, comparisons with other group 14 tetrafluorides and a search for soft donor ligand complexes
Kathryn George, Andrew L. Hector, William Levason, Gillian Reid, George Sanderson, Michael Webster & Wenjian Zhang, 2011, Dalton Transactions, 40(7), 1584-1593
DOI: 10.1039/c0dt01115k
Type: article
Supramolecular assemblies of germanium(ii) halides with O-, S- and Se-donor macrocycles – the effects of donor atom type upon structure
Andrew L. Hector, William Levason, Michael Webster, Gillian Reid & Wenjian Zhang, 2011, Dalton Transactions, 40(3), 694-700
DOI: 10.1039/c0dt00749h
Type: article
The first examples of germanium tetrafluoride and tin tetrafluoride complexes with soft thioether coordination - synthesis, properties and crystal structures
Martin. F. Davis, William Levason, Gillian Reid, Micheal Webster & Wenjian Zhang, 2008, Dalton Transactions, 533-538
DOI: 10.1039/b713316b
Type: article