News: Honours projects - Chemistry
Predicting concentration-gradient-driven fluid flow in 2D membranes
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Honours project: Chemistry honours opportunities that aim to predict concentration-gradient-driven fluid flow in two-dimensional (2D) membranes.
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Made-in-SA: Advanced materials derived from local growers’ agricultural waste
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Honours project: Turn fruit and vegetable waste into functional products
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Synthesis and structuralisation of Metal-organic Frameworks
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Honours project: This chemistry research opportunity aims to investigate the structuralisation of Metal-organic Frameworks.
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Snake venom proteins
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Honours project: Gain new insights into higher order protein structures in selected snake venoms.
Structural study of misfolding proteins
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Honours project: Investigate the structural characterisation of protein misfolding in amyloid diseases, such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.
Light driven degradation of persistent organic pollutants
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Honours project: Help development methods and processes for effective degradation of Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) to mitigate their emerging health and environmental effects.
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Hydrogen: green and renewable energy sourced from sunlight and water
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Honours project: A renewable energy project that aims to develop your skills in inorganic synthesis, light initiated reactions, gas chromatography, electron microscopy and chemical engineering.
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Exploring the fundamentals of photo-induced chemical reaction mechanisms
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Honours project: Use high-speed lasers to initiate a water-splitting reaction to probe products for analysis.
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Deciphering & exploiting bacterial cholesterol metabolism to combat disease
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Honours project: Address the fundamental science behind the use of the steroid cholesterol as a source of energy by bacteria.
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Synthetic biology applications of enzymes
Honours project: Use approaches to generate enzyme catalyst based systems to develop greener and sustainable processes for the production of useful and high value chemicals.