November 2015
Funeka Phumzile Nkosi > Other Awards
This is award given to the best student in the Masters degree at the CSIR Materials Science and Manufacturing unit
April 2013
Funeka Phumzile Nkosi > Other Awards
This studentship is given to the best performing student with a Honours degree to partake an MSc degree (Full-time) at the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).
May 2015
Funeka Phumzile Nkosi > Other Awards
This studentship is given to the best performing student with a Masters degree to partake a PhD degree (Full-time) at the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).
September 2015
Funeka Phumzile Nkosi > Other Awards
This award was given to the best PhD oral presentation at the CSIR emerging young researcher symposium.
June 2016
Funeka Phumzile Nkosi > Other Awards
This award was given to the best student poster presentations at the South Africa's Department of Science and Technology (DST)/ National Research Foundation(NRF) nanotechnology symposium.
Full Member
Miss Funeka Phumzile Nkosi
Membership since:
2016
Field of activity:
Awards
Degrees:
2015
Master
Chemical Sciences
Publications resulting from Research
1. Kumar Raju, Funeka P. Nkosi, Elumalai Viswanathan, Mkhulu K. Mathe, Krishnan Damodaranc and Kenneth I. Ozoemena. Microwave-enhanced electrochemical cycling performance of the LiNi0.2Mn1.8O4 spinel cathode material at elevated temperature, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 18, (2016), 13074-13083.
2. Funeka Nkosi, Charl J. Jafta, Mesfin Kebede, Lukas le Roux, Mkhulu K. Mathe
and Kenneth I. Ozoemena, Microwave-Assisted Optimization of the Manganese Redox States for Enhanced Capacity and Capacity Retention of LiAlxMn2-xO4 (x = 0 and 0.3) Spinel Materials, RSC Adv., 5, (2015), 32256-32262.
and Kenneth I. Ozoemena, Microwave-Assisted Optimization of the Manganese Redox States for Enhanced Capacity and Capacity Retention of LiAlxMn2-xO4 (x = 0 and 0.3) Spinel Materials, RSC Adv., 5, (2015), 32256-32262.
3. Charl J. Jafta, Funeka Nkosi, Lukas le Roux, Mesfin Kebede, Katlego Makgopa, Mkhulu K. Mathe, Ncholu Manyala, Munetaka Oyama, and Kenneth I. Ozoemena. Tuning Electrolytic Manganese Dioxide for a High-Voltage Aqueous Asymmetric Electrochemical Capacitor, ECS Transactions, 50 (43) (2013) 93-101.
4. Charl J. Jafta, Funeka Nkosi, Lukas le Roux, Mkhulu K. Mathe, Mesfin Kebede, Katlego Makgopa, Yang Song, Dennis Tong, Munetaka Oyama, Ncholu Manyala, Shaowei Chen and Kenneth I. Ozoemena. Manganese Oxide/Graphene Oxide Composites for High-Energy Aqueous Asymmetric Electrochemical Capacitor, Electrochimica Acta, 110 (2013) 228-233
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Microwave irradiation as an essential step in the synthesis of spinel LiMn2O4 cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries
227th ECS Meeting,
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Optimising Electrochemical Properties of Spinel LiMn2O4 Cathode Materials for Lithium Ion Battery using Microwave Irradiation
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CSIR, Pretoria, South Africa,
The effect of post-microwave irradiation on the electrochemistry of LiMn2O4 Spinel cathode material for lithium ion batteries.
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Scientific Writing for Scientists and Engineers.
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Southern African Powder Diffraction Conference and Workshop.
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