Author:Adeleke, Oluwatoyin A; Monama, Nkwe O; Tsai, PC; Sithole, Happy M; Michniak-Kohn, BBDate:Dec 2015To date, effective treatment, prophylaxis, and control of tuberculosis (TB) infection is mainly dependent on the use of drugs. However, patient noncompliance with prescribed anti-TB treatment schemes remains a major problem confronting ...Read more
Author:Karunarathna, B; Jayakody, RS; Karunanayake, L; Govender, Krishna KDate:Jan 2021Segmented polyurethanes show extraordinary physicochemical properties, mainly owing to the nature and the chemistry of the hard segment domains. There are yet many inexplicable physiochemical properties of MDI-BDO–based hard polyurethane ...Read more
Author:Wahab, OO; Olasunkanmi, LO; Govender, Krishna K; Govender, PPDate:Feb 2022The mechanisms of hydroxyl radical (·OH) degradation of disperse red 73 (DR73) dye were investigated using density functional theory (DFT) calculations. Comparative feasibility of ·OH attack at the azo (N=N) site or on a > C–N group was ...Read more
Author:Akintemi, EO; Govender, Krishna K; Singh, TDate:Feb 2022Density function theory calculations was used to determine the molecular parameters, electronic and chemical reactivity descriptors, spectroscopy, and non-linear optical properties, electronic dipole moment, polarizability and hyperpolarizability ...Read more
Author:Kiarii, EM; Govender, Krishna K; Mamo, MA; Govender, PPDate:Aug 2022Calculations of AgSbTe2 thermoelectric material and 2d CdS/TiS2 and their heterostructures were carried out using Density Functional Theory in Cambridge Serial Total Energy Package code as implemented in Material Studio 2018 software. The ...Read more
Author:Tolufashe, FF; Lawal, MM; Govender, Krishna K; Shode, FO; Singh, TDate:Mar 2021A group of bioactive compounds known as triterpenoids, which are often found in plant materials, have been tested to possess nutritional and pharmaceutical activity. These plant components are referred to as nutraceuticals, and are used as ...Read more
Author:Adeleke, Oluwatoyin A; Tsai, P; Karry, KM; Monama, Nkwe O; Michniak-Kohn, BBDate:Aug 2021Drug treatment remains the most effective global approach to managing and preventing tuberculosis. This work focuses on formulating and evaluating an optimized polyvinyl alcohol-polyethylene glycol based orodispersible strip containing ...Read more
Author:Mulovhedzi, PT; Rambuwani, GT; Bopape, MJ; Maisha, R; Monama, Nkwe ODate:Sep 2021Numerical weather prediction (NWP) models have been increasing in skill and their capability to simulate weather systems and provide valuable information at convective scales has improved in recent years. Much effort has been put into developing ...Read more
Author:Sayle, TXT; Caddeo, F; Monama, Nkwe O; Kgatwane, KM; Ngoepe, PE; Sayle, DCDate:2015Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of the charging of Li2MnO3 reveal that the reason nanocrystalline-Li2MnO3 is electrochemically active, in contrast to the parent bulk-Li2MnO3, is because in the nanomaterial the tunnels, in which the Li ...Read more
Author:Fosu, EA; Obuah, C; Hamenu, L; Aniagyei, A; Ainooson, MK; Govender, Krishna KDate:Aug 2021Transition-metal-mediated oxygen transfer reactions are of importance in both industry and academia; thus, a series of rhenium oxo complexes of the type ReO3L (L=O-, Cl-, F-, OH-, Br-, I-) and their effects as oxidation catalysts on ethylene ...Read more