Member Profile
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Funeka Phumzile Nkosi
Country of origin: South Africa Currently in: South Africa, Vosloorus General field of specialization: Chemical Sciences-
Degrees
2015 Master Chemical Sciences -
Current Research Activities
Chemical Sciences
PhD student at a research council (CSIR)
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.
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
Current profession
Current professional activities type:ResearchActive PhD student at a research council
Workshop and Conference Attended
2015 Pretoria, South Africa 5th CSIR Emerging Researcher Symposium2015 Chicago, Illinois, USA, 227th ECS Meeting2013 Pretoria, South Africa 4th CSIR Emerging Researcher Symposium2015 Chicago, Illinois, USA, Scientific Writing for Scientists and Engineers.2014 Witwatersrand University, Johannesburg, South Africa, Southern African Powder Diffraction Conference and Workshop.Presentation given
2015Microwave irradiation as an essential step in the synthesis of spinel LiMn2O4 cathode materials for lithium-ion batteriesPretoria, South Africa,Event: 5th CSIR Emerging Researcher Symposium2015Optimising Electrochemical Properties of Spinel LiMn2O4 Cathode Materials for Lithium Ion Battery using Microwave IrradiationChicago, Illinois, USAEvent: 227th ECS Meeting,2013The effect of post-microwave irradiation on the electrochemistry of LiMn2O4 Spinel cathode material for lithium ion batteries.CSIR, Pretoria, South Africa,Event: 4th CSIR Emerging Researcher Symposium2016African Youth Skills Acquisition & Development and InnovationConstitution Hill, Johannesburg, South AfricaEvent: The first post UNESCO and UN ECOSOC youth forum in Africa -
Other Awards
Nov 2015Best MSc studentThis is award given to the best student in the Masters degree at the CSIR Materials Science and Manufacturing unitApr 2013Council for Scientific and Industrial Research -MSc StudentshipThis 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 2015Council for Scientific and Industrial Research -PhD StudentshipThis 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).Sep 2015CSIR Emerging young researcher - best PhD oral presentationThis award was given to the best PhD oral presentation at the CSIR emerging young researcher symposium.Jun 2016DST/NRF nanotechnology symposium: Best student oral presentationThis 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.
