Toward the Nanoscale

Ngoepe, Phuti E.; Maphanga, Rapela R.; Sayle, Dean C.

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“…Thirdly, although 'capacity-strengthening' programmes are usually justified and judged on their efficacy in training and institutional building, they often also lead to original and novel science of high quality and to science which would not have happened otherwise. Some examples of the novel science pertain to modelling metal oxide nano-architectures, such as nanoparticles, nanosheets, nanorods and nanoporous structures, through the simulated amorphization recrystallization method that was initially developed by Dean Sayle [52]. In the collaboration, the approach was adapted to energy storage materials, and it currently continues to play a significant role in their synthesis and performance evaluation [24,40,[53][54][55].…”

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Materials modelling in the University of Limpopo

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This article provides insights into building research capacity in computational modelling of materials at the University of Limpopo (UL), formerly University of the North, in South Africa, through a collaboration with a consortium of universities in the United Kingdom (UK) through the support of the National Research Foundation (NRF), formerly the Foundation for Research and Development, and the Royal Society (RS). A background that led to the choice of building research capacity at historically disadvantaged universities in South Africa, including the UL, is given. The modus operandi of the collaboration between the UL and several UK universities on computational modelling of materials is outlined, together with the scientific highlights that were achieved in themes of minerals, energy storage and alloy development. The capacity built in terms of human capital and institutions set up is shared, which is followed by a discussion of the continuing research activities after the formal NRF–RS collaboration ceased with more alignment to industrial applications with national and international support. We conclude by highlighting the success of the project in capacity-building and consolidating the Materials Modelling Centre with developments of high-performance computing in South Africa and the African continent. We comment on the lessons learned regarding successful capacity-building programmes.

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