Africa-UK Partnership for the Computer-aided Development of Sustainable Catalysts

Santos‐Carballal, David; Sittert, Cornelia Gertina Catharina Elizabeth van; Leeuw, Nora H. de

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“…A number of high-impact publications has also increased the scientific standing of CU. We have edited a thematic issue of the South African Journal of Chemistry (Africa-UK Partnership for the Computer-aided Development of Sustainable Catalysts, editors: D. Santos-Carballal, C. G. C. E. van Sittert, N. H. de Leeuw ( 2021)) [7], with publications from all groups, together with a number of South African PhD exchange students, which is an excellent collection of the research carried out over the duration of the project.…”

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Chem4Energy: a consortium of the Royal Society Africa Capacity-Building Initiative

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The Africa Capacity-Building Initiative is a Royal Society programme funded by the former UK Department for International Development to develop collaborative research between scientists in sub-Saharan Africa and the UK. Initially, four institutions were involved in the Chem4Energy consortium: Cardiff University in the UK and three African partners, the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana, the University of Namibia and the University of Botswana, soon also including the Botswana International University of Science and Technology. The Chem4Energy research programme focused on ‘New materials for a sustainable energy future: linking computation with experiment’, aiming to deploy the synergy between state-of-the-art computational and experimental techniques to design and optimize new catalysts and semiconductor materials for renewable energy applications, based on materials that are abundant and readily available in African countries. The Chem4Energy consortium has achieved ambitious research goals, graduated seven PhD students and delivered a high-quality cross-disciplinary training programme in materials science and simulation techniques relevant to renewable energy applications. Since 2021, the extended consortium, including North-West University and the Centre for High-Performance Computing in South Africa, has remained active through an annual Chem4Energy conference series, with the sixth meeting taking place in Namibia in April 2025.

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Section: Outputs and Successes From The Programmementioning

confidence: 99%