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Heterogenisation of selective ethylene tetramerisation catalysts.
(2010)The aim of the study was to heterogenise existing tetramerisation catalysts by supporting the bis(diphenylphosphino)amine ligands on polymer. The polymer of choice was Merrifield’s resin which was functionalized to enable ... -
Heterometallic ruthenium (II)-platinum (II) complexes : a new paradigm : a kinetic, mechanistic and computational investigation into substitution behaviour.
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High repetition rate continuously tunable CO2 laser system investigation.
(1990)The purpose of this thesis was to investigate certain factors important for the operation of a high repetition rate continuously tunable CO2 laser. The tuning range of specific importance for this research program was ... -
Homogeneous dioxoruthenium(VI) catalysts for the oxidation of alcohols.
(2000)Compounds of the form RuO2(Y-py)2CI2 1 (py = pyridine, Y = H, 4-t-Bu, 3-CN, 4-CN, 2-Br, 3-Br, 4-Br, 4-Cl, 4-Me, 4-C(O)C6H5, 3-COOH, 4-COOH), RuO2ZCI2 2(Z = bipyridine, phenanthroline) and RuO2(OH)2(Y-py)2 3 (py = pyridine, ... -
Homoisoflavonids and stilbenoids from Scilla species.
(1998)Bulbs of Scilla natalensis Planch, Scilla nervosa (Burch.) Jessop, Scilla dracomontana Hilliard and Burt and Scilla kraussii Bak. (Hyacinthaceae) were investigated. The plants are widely used by the local African people ... -
The hydrogenolysis of glycerol to lower alcohols.
(2010)Much work has been done towards the hydrogenolysis of glycerol to 1,2-PDO and 1,3-PDO using various heterogeneous systems including Rh, Ru, Pt, PtRu, copper systems and Raney Ni in batch systems. However, routes to lower ... -
Hydrogeochemical modeling of the speciation and leaching of fly ash co-disposed with water, brines and organics : a case study of Sasol-Eskom coal ash disposal, South Africa.
(2012)Two coal utility plants in South Africa selected (one from Sasol and another from Eskom) for this study produce large volumes of fly ash (over 40 Mt from Eskom at Tutuka, and 3 Mt from Sasol Synfuels at Secunda annually), ... -
Identification and quantification of chelidonic acid and other ligands with potential for Ni uptake in the hyperaccumulator, Berkheya coddii.
(2014)B. coddii is a known nickel hyperaccumulator, a plant that is able to take up high levels of Ni (< 37 000 mg kg -1) without exhibiting toxic effects. It grows in serpentine soil and is endemic to the Barberton Region, ... -
Imidazolium, phosphonium and pyridinium ionic liquids with flourinated anions : synthesis characterization and applications.
(2013)Four sets of ionic compounds were synthesized, each with an organic spacer between two ligands creating a dication with the bromide as the counter anion. In each of the sets of ionic compounds, the counter anion was ... -
Immunological studies of thymine dimer quantitation.
(1992)Ultraviolet irradiation of DNA induces the formation of a number of mutagenic lesions. The most prolific of these is the cis-syn thymine dimer (formed maximally at 260 nm) and this has been implicated in the reaction ... -
The implementation of polarisation encoded quantum key distribution in fibre.
(2012)Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) employs the laws of quantum mechanics for the purpose of cryptography. Two parties, commonly called Alice and Bob, are able to share a random key which is used to encrypt a message. Any ... -
Implementing Grover's search algorithm using the one-way quantum computing model and photonic orbital angular momentum.
(2011)Standard quantum computation proceeds via the unitary evolution of physical qubits (two-level systems) that carry the information. A remarkably different model is one-way quantum computing where a quantum algorithm is ... -
The incorporation of impurities into sucrose crystals during the crystallisation process.
(1998)The main objective of this work is to propose a mechanism for the transfer of impurities into the sucrose crystal. To this end the transfer of impurities into the sucrose crystal was investigated, under crystallisation ... -
Influence of bridging groups on the reactivity of dinuclear platinum (II) complexes with bis(2-pyridylmethyl)amine chelate headgroups.
(2009)The influence on the reactivity of both the length as well as the structural nature of diamine bridges linking dinuclear Pt(II) complexes with homotopic bis(2-pyridylmethyl)amine headgroups has been investigated. For this ... -
Influence of concentration on properties of spray deposited nickel oxide films for solar cells.
(Elsevier., 2017)Spray pyrolysis technique was used to deposit various concentration of nickel oxide films on glass substrate. The Effect of varying precursor concentration on elemental, morphological and structural properties was ... -
The influence of metal oxide transport layer and annealing temperature on perovskite solar cells (PSCs)
(2021)Organic-inorganic halide Perovskite Solar Cells (PSCs) are the leading third-generation solar cells with the possibility to provide a fraction of green and affordable energy in the next technological era of solar energy. ... -
The influence of physicochemical reaction parameters on the synthesis of multi-walled carbon nanotubes for use as catalyst supports.
(2012)Multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) and other shaped carbon nanomaterials (SCNMs) were synthesized by the floating catalyst chemical vapour deposition (CVD) method, using either ferrocene [1] as the catalyst at 2.5 ... -
The influence of rotating and locked magnetic islands on edge transport in Tokoloshe tokamak.
(1993)The turbulence and fluctuation induced transport in the edge plasma of the Tokoloshe tokamak was studied using a Langmuir probe array. In this thesis three separate experiments are presented, each of which examines a ...