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Topological Engineering Translation Grant

Staff

Lead researcher

Professor David Smith MA, DPhil

Professor
Connect with David

Email: D.C.Smith@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Professor Philip Bartlett

Professor of Chemistry

Research interests

  • Electrochemistry
  • Bioelectrochemistry
  • Templated electrodeposition of nanomaterials
Connect with Philip

Email: P.N.Bartlett@soton.ac.uk

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
Connect with Gill

Email: G.Reid@soton.ac.uk

Emeritus Professor William Levason

Research interests

  • Coordination chemistry, group 15 and 16 donor ligands, early transition metal chemistry, main group metal chemistry 
Connect with William

Email: wxl@soton.ac.uk

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: A.L.Hector@soton.ac.uk

Dr Pier-John Sazio

Principal Research Fellow
Connect with Pier-John

Email: P.A.Sazio@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Electrochemistry

A well-established world-class group researching energy charge transfer that affects many facets of life.

Nanophotonics Group

We perform fundamental optical physics and materials research. This is critical for the discovery and development of new and improved optoelectronic technologies.

Research outputs

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
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
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
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
The electrodeposition of silver from supercritical carbon dioxide/acetonitrile
Philip N. Bartlett, Magdalena Perdjon-Abel, David Cook, Gillian Reid, William Levason, Fei Cheng, Wenjian Zhang, Michael W. George, Jie Ke, Richard Beanland & Jeremy Sloan, 2013, ChemElectroChem, 1(1), 187-194
DOI: 10.1002/celc.201300131
Type: article