Professor Vincent Nyamori joins RSC Sustainability as Associate Editor

We are delighted to welcome Professor Vincent Nyamori, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, as an Associate Editor for RSC Sustainability, a new open access journal publishing solution-focused research to solve sustainability challenges.

Learn more about our new Associate Editor

Vincent Nyamori is a Professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), South Africa. He is the Coordinator of the UKZN Nanotechnology Platform, an Executive and Council member of the South African Chemical Institute (SACI), and a former SACI President. He is a Fellow of SACI and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. He is South Africa’s representative to the Federation of the Commonwealth Chemical Sciences Societies.

 

Prof. Nyamori received his PhD from Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of the Witwatersrand. His research interests include Green and Sustainable Chemistry, particularly ionic liquids and renewable materials. He has extended his interest to Nanotechnology and Materials Science to develop advanced nanomaterials for water remediation, catalysis and solar energy devices.

 

Prof. Nyamori has presented his work at numerous conferences and published at least 150 journal articles, three book chapters, and one patent. In 2020, he was the SACI Merck Medal awardee for a paper published in the South African Journal of Chemistry, adjudged then to have made the most significant contribution to the discipline. He has received the UKZN Top 30 Published Researchers’ Award and the Vice-Chancellor’s Research Award, recognising his exceptional research activities.

 

Read some of his recent contributions below:

 

Synthesis and characterisation of heteroatom-doped reduced graphene oxide/bismuth oxide nanocomposites and their application as photoanodes in DSSCs

Nonjabulo P.D. Ngidi, Edigar Muchuweni and Vincent O. Nyamori

RSC Advances, 2022, 12, 2462-2472

 

Tuning the properties of boron-doped reduced graphene oxide by altering the boron content

Nonjabulo P.D. Ngidi, Moses A. Ollengo and Vincent O. Nyamori

New Journal of Chemistry, 2020, 44, 16864-16876

 

RSC Sustainability is now open for submissions. Find out more on the journal webpage, sign up to e-Alerts or submit your manuscript now.

 

Please join us in welcoming Prof. Nyamori to RSC Sustainability.