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  • Surface and interface reaction analysis of Zr films deposited on 6H-SiC after thermal annealing 
    Njoroge, Eric Gitau; Theron, C.C. (Chris); Hlatshwayo, Thulani Thokozani; Malherbe, Johan B. (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2016)
    Zr films (130 nm) were deposited on a 6H-SiC substrate at room temperature by sputter deposition. The interface solid-state reactions due to high vacuum thermal annealing between 600 °C and 850 °C for 30 min were investigated ...
  • Surface and interface structural analysis of W deposited on 6H–SiC substrates annealed in argon 
    Thabethe, Thabsile Theodora; Njoroge, Eric Gitau; Hlatshwayo, Thulani Thokozani; Ntsoane, Tshepo Paul; Malherbe, Johan B. (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2017)
    A study of a tungsten (W) thin film deposited on a single crystalline 6H–SiC substrate and annealed in Ar at temperatures of 700 C, 800 C, 900 C and 1000 C for 1 hour was conducted. The subsequent solid state reactions, ...
  • Surfactant assisted synthesis of copper oxide (CuO) leaf-like nanostructures for electrochemical applications 
    Bello, Abdulhakeem; Dodoo-Arhin, David; Makgopa, Katlego; Fabre, Michel; Manyala, Ncholu I. (Scientific and Academic Publishing, 2014)
    Three different copper oxide (CuO) leaf-like nanostructures have been synthesised by micelles micro emulsion method using a surfactant of copper dodecyl sulphate (Cu(DS)2) by varying the concentration of sodium ...
  • Swift heavy ion irradiation of polyaniline-graphene nanocomposite films : structural and optical properties 
    Chilukusha, D.C.; Mboukam, J.J.; Maphiri, Vusani Muswa; Manyala, Ncholu I.; Msimanga, Mandla (Elsevier, 2024-01)
    Please read abstract in the article.
  • Switching an individual phycobilisome off and on 
    Gwizdala, Michal; Botha, Joshua Leon; Wilson, Adjele; Kirilovsky, Diana; Van Grondelle, Rienk; Kruger, T.P.J. (Tjaart) (American Chemical Society, 2018-04)
    Photosynthetic organisms have found various smart ways to cope with unexpected changes in light conditions. In many cyanobacteria, the lethal effects of a sudden increase in light intensity are mitigated mainly by the ...
  • SYMBA : an end-to-end VLBI synthetic data generation pipeline simulating event horizon telescope observations of M 87 
    Roelofs, F.; Janssen, M.; Natarajan, I.; Deane, Roger; Davelaar, J.; Olivares, H.; Porth, O.; Paine, S.N.; Bouman, K.L.; Tilanus, R.P.J.; Van Bemmel, I.M.; Falcke, H.; Akiyama, Kazunori; Alberdi, A.; Alef, W.; Asada, K.; Azulay, R.; Baczko, A.; Ball, D.; Balokovic, M.; Barrett, J.; Bintley, D.; Blackburn, L.; Boland, W.; Bower, G.C.; Bremer, M.; Brinkerink, C.D.; Brissenden, R.; Britzen, S.; Broderick, Avery E.; Broguiere, D.; Bronzwaer, T.; Byun, D.; Carlstrom, J.E.; Chael, A.; Chan, C.; Chatterjee, S.; Chatterjee, K.; Chen, M.; Chen, Y.; Cho, I.; Christian, P.; Conway, J.E.; Cordes, J.M.; Crew, G.B.; Cui, Y.; De Laurentis, M.; Dempsey, J.; Desvignes, G.; Dexter, J.; Doeleman, S.S.; Eatough, R.P.; Fish, V.L.; Fomalont, E.; Fraga-Encinas, R.; Friberg, Per; Fromm, C.M.; Gómez, J.L.; Galison, P.; Gammie, C.F.; García, R.; Gentaz, O.; Georgiev, Boris; Goddi, Ciriaco; Gold, R.; Gu, M.; Gurwel, M.; Hada, K.; Hecht, M.H.; Hesper, R.; Ho, L.C.; Ho, P.; Honma, M.; Huang, C.L.; Huang, L.; Hughes, D.H.; Ikeda, S.; Inoue, M.; Issaoun, Sara; James, D.J.; Jannuzi, B.T.; Jeter, B.; Jiang, W.; Johnson, M.D.; Jorstad, Svetlana; Jung, T.; Karami, M.; Karuppusamy, R.; Kawashima, T.; Keating, G.K.; Kettenis, M.; Kim, J.; Kino, M.; Koay, J.Y.; Koch, P.M.; Koyama, S.; Kramer, M.; Kramer, C.; Krichbaum, T.P.; Kuo, C.; Lauer, T.R.; Lee, S.; Li, Y.; Li, Z.; Lindqvist, M.; Lico, R.; Liu, K.; Liuzzo, E.; Lo, W.; Lobanov, A.P.; Loinard, L.; Lonsdale, C.; Lu, R.; MacDonald, N.R.; Mao, J.; Markof, S.; Marrone, D.P.; Marscher, A.P.; Martí-Vidal, I.; Matsushita, S.; Matthews, L.D.; Medeiros, L.; Menten, K.M.; Mizuno, Y.; Moran, J.M.; Moriyama, K.; Moscibrodzka, M.; Müller, C.; Nagai, H.; Nagar, N.M.; Nakamura, M.; Narayan, Ramesh; Narayanan, G.; Neri, R.; Ni, C.; Noutsos, A.; Okino, H.; Ortiz-Leon, Gisela N.; Oyama, T.; Özel, F.; Palumbo, D.C.M.; Patel, N.; Pen, U.; Pesce, D.W.; Piétu, V.; Plambeck, R.; PopStefanija, A.; Prather, B.; Preciado-Lopez, J.A.; Psaltis, D.; Pu, H.; Ramakrishnan, V.; Rao, R.; Rawlings, M.G.; Raymond, A.W.; Rezzolla, L.; Ripperda, B.; Rogers, A.; Ros, E.; Rose, M.; Roshanineshat, A.; Rottmann, H.; Roy, A.L.; Ruszczyk, C.; Ryan, B.R.; Rygl, K.L.J.; Sánchez, S.; Sánchez-Arguelles, D.; Sasada, M.; Savolainen, T.; Schloerb, F.P.; Schuster, K.; Shao, L.; Shen, Z.; Small, D.; Sohn, B.W.; SooHoo, J.; Tazaki, F.; Tiede, P.; Titus, M.; Toma, K.; Torne, P.; Traianou, E.; Trent, T.; Trippe, S.; Tsuda, S.; Van Langevelde, H.J.; Van Rossum, D.R.; Wagner, J.; Wardle, J.; Weintroub, J.; Wex, N.; Wharton, R.; Wielgus, M.; Wong, G.N.; Wu, Q.; Young, A.; Young, K.; Younsi, Z.; Yuan, F.; Yuan, Y.; Zensus, J.A.; Zhao, G.; Zhao, S.; Zhu, Z. (EDP Sciences, 2020-04)
    CONTEXT: Realistic synthetic observations of theoretical source models are essential for our understanding of real observational data. In using synthetic data, one can verify the extent to which source parameters can be ...
  • Symmetric supercapacitors based on porous 3D interconnected carbon framework 
    Bello, Abdulhakeem; Barzegar, Farshad; Momodu, Damilola Y.; Dangbegnon, Julien K.; Taghizadeh, Fatemeh; Manyala, Ncholu I. (Elsevier, 2015-01)
    The construction and design of novel porous carbons for electric double-layer capacitors (EDLCs) application to meet the increasing demand and supply of energy is eminent. This is important because the pore volume ...
  • Synthesis and characterisation of methylammonium lead tri-bromide perovskites thin films by sequential physical vapor deposition 
    Fru, Juvet Nche; Nombona, Nolwazi; Diale, M. (Mmantsae Moche) (Elsevier, 2020-02)
    Please read abstract in the article.
  • Synthesis and characterization of porous carbon derived from activated banana peels with hierarchical porosity for improved electrochemical performance 
    Fasakin, Oladepo; Dangbegnon, Julien K.; Momodu, Damilola Y.; Madito, M.J. (Moshawe); Oyedotun, Kabir Oyeniran; Eleruja, M.A.; Manyala, Ncholu I. (Elsevier, 2018-02)
    Banana peels, a common fruit waste was adopted as a material precursor in this study to synthesize highly porous activated carbon from banana peels (ABP) which serves as an electrode material for a symmetric supercapacitor ...
  • Synthesis and microstructural characterization of kaolin-polyethylene composites 
    Agyei-Tuffour, B.; Bensah, Y.D.; Damoah, L.N.W.; Dodoo-Arhin, David; Yaya, A.; Nyankson, E.; Annan, A.; Sarkodee, E.; Efav, J.K. (Wiley, 2014-08)
    In this article, the preparation and characterization of kaolin/polyethylene composites are presented. Microstructural characteristics of six different kaolin–polyethylene composites with varying percentage compositions ...
  • Synthesis of 3D porous carbon based on cheap polymers and graphene foam for high-performance electrochemical capacitors 
    Barzegar, Farshad; Bello, Abdulhakeem; Fashedemi, Omobosede O.; Dangbegnon, Julien K.; Momodu, Damilola Y.; Taghizadeh, Fatemeh; Manyala, Ncholu I. (Elsevier, 2015-09)
    A scalable production of high surface area nanoporous carbon material (~ 2994 m2 g-1) with good distribution of micro-, meso- and macro-pores was hydrothermally synthesized using both cheap polymers and graphene foam as ...
  • Synthesis of ternary NiCo-MnO2 nanocomposite and its application as a novel high energy supercapattery device 
    Oyedotun, Kabir Oyeniran; Madito, M.J. (Moshawe); Momodu, Damilola Y.; Mirghni, Abdulmajid Abdallah; Masikhwa, T.M. (Tshifhiwa); Manyala, Ncholu I. (Elsevier, 2018-03)
    Please read abstract in the article.
  • Tartrazine removal from water using functionalized multiwall carbon nanotubes 
    Nait-Merzoug, A.; Guellati, O.; Benjaballah, A.; Janowska, I.; Begin, D.; Manyala, Ncholu I.; Guerioune, M. (Desalination Publications, 2017-03)
    This investigation presents the advantages and limitations of tartrazine azo dye sorption on oxygen functionalized multiwalled carbon nanotubes (O-MWCNTs) synthesized by catalytic-CVD technique in LEREC laboratory, Algeria. ...
  • Temperature-dependent current-voltage characteristics of Pd/ZnO Schottky barrier diodes and the determination of the Richardson constant 
    Mayimele, Meeheketo Advice; Diale, M. (Mmantsae Moche); Mtangi, Wilbert; Auret, Francois Danie (Elsevier, 2015-06)
    We report on a systematic investigation of temperature dependent current-voltage (I-V) characteristics of Pd/ZnO Schottky barrier diodes in the 30-300 K temperature range. The ideality factor was observed to decrease ...
  • Temperature-dependent growth mode of W-doped ZnO nanostructures 
    Ngom, Balla D.; Chaker, M.; Manyala, Ncholu I.; Lo, B.; Maaza, Malik; Beye, A.C. (Elsevier, 2011-03)
    We report on the effects of glass substrate temperature on the crystal structure and morphology of tungsten (W)-doped ZnO nanostructures synthesized by pulsed-laser deposition. X-ray diffraction analysis data shows that ...
  • THEMIS : a parameter estimation framework for the Event Horizon Telescope 
    Broderick, Avery E.; Gold, Roman; Karami, Mansour; Preciado-Lopez, Jorge A.; Tiede, Paul; Pu, Hung-Yi; Akiyama, Kazunori; Alberdi, Antxon; Alef, Walter; Asada, Keiichi; Azulay, Rebecca; Baczko, Anne-Kathrin; Balokovic, Mislav; Barrett, John; Bintley, Dan; Blackburn, Lindy; Boland, Wilfred; Bouman, Katherine L.; Bower, Geoffrey C.; Bremer, Michael; Brinkerink, Christiaan D.; Brissenden, Roger; Britzen, Silke; Broguiere, Dominique; Bronzwaer, Thomas; Byun, Do-Young; Carlstrom, John E.; Chael, Andrew; Chatterjee, Shami; Chatterjee, Koushik; Chen, Ming-Tang; Chen, Yongjun; Cho, Ilje; Conway, John E.; Cordes, James M.; Crew, Geoffrey B.; Cui, Yuzhu; Davelaar, Jordy; De Laurentis, Mariafelicia; Deane, Roger; Dempsey, Jessica; Desvignes, Gregory; Doeleman, Sheperd S.; Eatough, Ralph P.; Falcke, Heino; Fish, Vincent L.; Fomalont, Ed; Fraga-Encinas, Raquel; Friberg, Per; Fromm, Christian M.; Galison, Peter; Gammie, Charles F.; García, Roberto; Gentaz, Olivier; Georgiev, Boris; Goddi, Ciriaco; Gómez, Jose L.; Gu, Minfeng; Gurwell, Mark; Hada, Kazuhiro; Hecht, Michael H.; Hesper, Ronald; Ho, Luis C.; Ho, Paul; Honma, Mareki; Huang, Chih-Wei L.; Huang, Lei; Hughes, David H.; Inoue, Makoto; Issaoun, Sara; James, David J.; Janssen, Michael; Jeter, Britton; Jiang, Wu; Jimenez-Rosales, Alejandra; Johnson, Michael D.; Jorstad, Svetlana; Jung, Taehyun; Karuppusamy, Ramesh; Kawashima, Tomohisa; Keating, Garrett K.; Kettenis, Mark; Kim, Jae-Young; Kim, Jongsoo; Kino, Motoki; Koay, Jun Yi; Koch, Patrick M.; Koyama, Shoko; Kramer, Michael; Krame, Carsten; Krichbaum, Thomas P.; Kuo, Cheng-Yu; Lee, Sang-Sung; Li, Yan-Rong; Li, Zhiyuan; Lindqvist, Michael; Lico, Rocco; Liu, Kuo; Liuzzo, Elisabetta; Lo, Wen-Ping; Lobanov, Andrei P.; Loinard, Laurent; Lonsdale, Colin; Lu, Ru-Sen; MacDonald, Nicholas R.; Mao, Jirong; Marscher, Alan P.; Marti-Vidal, Ivan; Matsushita, Satoki; Matthews, Lynn D.; Menten, Karl M.; Mizuno, Yosuke; Moran, James M.; Moriyama, Kotaro; Moscibrodzka, Monika; Muller, Cornelia; Nagai, Hiroshi; Nagar, Neil M.; Nakamura, Masanori; Narayan, Ramesh; Narayanan, Gopal; Natarajan, Iniyan; Neri, Roberto; Ni, Chunchong; Noutsos, Aristeidis; Okino, Hiroki; Olivares, Hector; Ortiz-Leon, Gisela N.; Oyama, Tomoaki; Palumbo, Daniel C.M.; Park, Jongho; Pen, Ue-Li; Pesce, Dominic W.; Pietu, Vincent; Plambeck, Richard; PopStefanija, Aleksandar; Porth, Oliver; Prather, Ben; Ramakrishnan, Venkatessh; Rao, Ramprasah; Rawlings, Mark G.; Raymond, Alexander W.; Rezzoll, Luciano; Ripperda, Bart; Roelof, Freek; Rogers, Alan; Ros, Eduardo; Rose, Mel; Rottmann, Helge; Ruszczyk, Chet; Ryan, Benjamin R.; Rygl, Kazi L.J.; Sanchez, Salvador; Sanchez-Arguelles, David; Sasada, Mahito; Savolainen, Tuomas; Schloerb, F. Peter; Schuster, Karl-Friedrich; Shao, Lijing; Shen, Zhiqiang; Small, Des; Sohn, Bong Won; SooHoo, Jason; Tazaki, Fumie; Tilanus, Remo P.J.; Titus, Michael; Toma, Kenji; Torne, Pablo; Traianou, Efthalia; Trippe, Sascha; Tsuda, Shuichiro; Van Bemmel, Ilse; Van Langevelde, Huib Jan; Van Rossum, Daniel R.; Wagner, Jan; Wardle, John; Weintroub, Jonathan; Wex, Norbert; Wharton, Robert; Wielgus, Maciek; Wong, George N.; Wu., Qingwen; Yoon, Doosoo; Young, Andre; Young, Ken; Younsi, Ziri; Yuan, Feng; Yuan, Ye-Fei; Zensus, J. Anton; Zhao, Guangyao; Zhao, Shan-Shan; Zhu, Ziyan (American Astronomical Society, 2020-07)
    The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) provides the unprecedented ability to directly resolve the structure and dynamics of black hole emission regions on scales smaller than their horizons. This has the potential to ...
  • Theoretical comparison of real-time feedback-driven single-particle tracking techniques 
    Van Heerden, Bertus; Kruger, T.P.J. (Tjaart) (American Institute of Physics, 2022-08)
    Real-time feedback-driven single-particle tracking is a technique that uses feedback control to enable single-molecule spectroscopy of freely diffusing particles in native or near-native environments. A number of different ...
  • Theoretical investigation of the stability of crystalline silicon dicarbide 
    Andrew, Richard Charles; Braun, Max Willi Hermann; Chetty, Nithaya (Elsevier, 2012-04)
    While Si, C and SiC are very well known materials that have been extensively studied in their multitude of structures and allotropes, there is, surprisingly, a dearth of reliable information for off-50:50 compounds involving ...
  • Theoretical studies and simulation of gold-silica-gold multilayer "fanoshells" for sensing applications 
    Ugwuoke, Luke C.; Kruger, T.P.J. (Tjaart) (American Chemical Society, 2022-05)
    We develop a theoretical framework, based on a multipole, quasi-static approach, for the prediction of the localized surface plasmon resonances in Fanoshells formed via geometrical symmetry breaking in multilayer nanoshells ...
  • A theoretical study of thorium titanium-based alloys 
    Obodo, K.O. (Kingsley Onyebuchi); Chetty, Nithaya (Elsevier, 2013)
    Using theoretical quantum chemical methods, we investigate the dearth of ordered alloys involving thorium and titanium. Whereas both these elements are known to alloy very readily with various other elements, for example ...