South Africa is a water scarce country. The expansion of the industrial, mining, and agricultural sectors to meet the needs of South Africa’s growing population requires more water. There is therefore an urgent need to ...

Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) still causes a chronic infection that affects millions of individuals worldwide. The infection remains incurable and presents a huge challenge for treatment, as it tends to disable ...

This research investigates the impact of zirconia nanoparticle in conductivity, water uptake, fuel crossover and fuel efficiency of modified Nafion® membranes. Synthesized water-retaining mesoporous zirconia nanoparticles ...

Hidden sector or dark sector states appear in many extensions to the Standard Model (SM), to provide particle mediators for dark matter in the universe or to explain astrophysical observations such as the positron excess ...

In this work, a direct solution to the few-body Integrodi erential equation using the Lagrange-mesh method is presented. With the Lagrange-mesh method, the few-body Integrodi erential equation is converted into a matrix ...

Nanomaterials are of great interest because of their novel electrical, optical and magnetic properties which results from their small size and shape and exhibit unique features that are significantly different from their ...

Radionuclide liquid wastes generated from nuclear facilities can affect humans and the environment, thus substantial attention for their safe management has been received worldwide. Treatment of radionuclide liquid wastes ...

An environmental friendly and simple approach to synthesis of Platinum (Pt), Palladium (Pd), Rhodium (Rh) and Osmium (Os) nanoparticles via gamma radiolysis is demonstrated. Herein, we report on the effect of gamma rays ...

This master’s thesis is focused on the LIBS technique for compositional differentiation and relative hardness quantification of selected geological samples. The experimental part of this thesis was conducted at the National ...

Non-resonant microwave absorption (NRMA) in superconducting materials has become a new experimental technique to probe and understand superconducting materials. For example cuprate superconductors are well studied with ...