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Chemistry and speciation of potentially toxic and radioactive elements during mine water treatment
(University of the Western Cape, 2012)
Mine water poses a serious environmental challenge and contains elements such as Fe, Al, and Mn in potentially toxic concentrations. The major anion in mine water is sulphate. The complexity and diversity of mine water ...
Development of a bismuth-silver nanofilm sensor for the determination of platinum group metals in environmental samples.
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)
Nowadays, the pollution of surface waters with chemical contaminants is one of the most crucial environmental problems. These chemical contaminants enter rivers and streams resulting in tremendous amount of destruction, ...
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 ...
Nanostructured light weight hydrogen storage materials
(University of the Western Cape, 2012)
The main objective of this study was to advance kinetic performances of formation and decomposition of magnesium hydride by design strategies which include high energy ball milling in hydrogen (HRBM), in combination with ...
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. ...
Development of high performance composite lithium ion battery cathode systems with carbon nanotubes functionalised with bimetallic inorganic nanocrystal alloys
(University of Western Cape, 2011)
Lithium ion cathode systems based on composites of lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO₄), iron-cobalt-derivatised carbon nanotubes (FeCo-CNT) and polyaniline (PA) nanomaterials were developed. The FeCo-functionalised CNTs were ...