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Synthesis and characterization of new adsorbents for CO2 capturing
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)
Carbon dioxide emissions have become a major concern as they are one of the contributing factors to the “green-house” effect. Recently, much effort has been put into separating carbon dioxide (CO2) from flue gases linked ...
Structural investigation of the natural products composition of selected South African seaweeds.
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)
Recently, a great deal of interest has developed towards the isolation of bioactive compounds from marine sources due to their numerous health benefits. Furthermore, marine algae are valuable sources ...
Ionophoric and aptameric recognition-modulated electroactive polyaniline films for the determination of tetrodotoxin
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)
Tetrodotoxin (TTX) is a nonpeptidic neurotoxin with a high rate of food poisoning mortality (60%) that has been associated with the consumption of diets from puffer fish and mud snails harbouring TTX-producing bacteria. ...
Quantum dots genosensor for Her2/Neu oncogene - a breast cancer biomarker
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)
The human epidermal growth factor receptor (HER)-family of receptor tyrosine kinases; human epidermal growth factor receptor 1, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2, human epidermal growth factor receptor 3 and human ...
Gas diffusion electrodes for high temperature polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells membrane electrode assemblies
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)
The need for simplified polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell (PEMFCs) systems, which do not require extensive fuel processing, has led to increased study in the field of high temperature polymer electrolyte membrane fuel ...
Polymeric-bimetallic oxide nanoalloy for the construction of photovoltaic cells
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)
Research in renewable energy has become a focal point as a solution to the energy crisis. One of renewable forms of energy is solar energy, with the main challenge in the development of the solar cells being the high cost. ...
Determination of toxic elements, rare earth elements and radionuclides in coal fly ash, products and waste
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)
Coal fly ash has been studied extensively to understand the environmental impacts associated with its disposal, management and reuse. Although several beneficiation processes have been proposed, there has been little or ...
The design of ultrasensitive immunosensors based on a new multi-signal amplification gold nanoparticles-dotted 4-nitrophenylazo functionalised graphene sensing platform for the determination of deoxynivalenol
(University of Western Cape, 2014)
A highly dispersive gold nanoparticle-dotted 4-nitrophenylazo functionalised graphene
nanocomposite (AuNp/G/PhNO2) was successfully synthesised and applied in enhancing
sensing platform signals. Three label-free ...