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

IF 3.6 3区 生物学 Q1 BIOLOGY
Interface Focus Pub Date : 2024-08-09 eCollection Date: 2024-08-01 DOI:10.1098/rsfs.2024.0001
Marietjie J Ungerer, Evans Adei, Theopolina Amakali, Cecil H Botchway, Likius S Daniel, James Darkwa, Nelson Y Dzade, Foster Mbaiwa, Mary Mensah, Maipelo Nyepetsi, Banothile Makhubela, Claire E Mitchell, Oluwasegun Emmanuel Olaoye, Olayinka A Oyetunji, Meenakshisundaram Sankar, Fortunate P Sejie, Jacobina Sheehama, Richard Tia, Veikko Uahengo, Aleksandar Živković, Nora H De Leeuw
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Abstract

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.

Chem4Energy:英国皇家学会非洲能力建设计划联合体。
非洲能力建设计划是英国皇家学会的一项计划,由前英国国际发展部资助,旨在发展撒哈拉以南非洲和英国科学家之间的合作研究。最初,有四家机构参与了 "化学4能源 "联盟:英国卡迪夫大学和三个非洲合作伙伴:加纳夸梅-恩克鲁玛科技大学、纳米比亚大学和博茨瓦纳大学,不久还包括博茨瓦纳国际科技大学。Chem4Energy 研究计划的重点是 "面向可持续能源未来的新材料:将计算与实验相结合",旨在利用最先进的计算和实验技术之间的协同作用,以非洲国家丰富且易于获得的材料为基础,设计和优化用于可再生能源应用的新型催化剂和半导体材料。Chem4Energy 联合体已经实现了雄心勃勃的研究目标,培养了七名博士生,并在与可再生能源应用相关的材料科学和模拟技术方面开展了高质量的跨学科培训计划。自 2021 年以来,包括西北大学和南非高性能计算中心在内的扩展联盟一直通过年度 Chem4Energy 系列会议保持活跃,第六次会议将于 2025 年 4 月在纳米比亚举行。
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Interface Focus
Interface Focus BIOLOGY-
CiteScore
9.20
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0.00%
发文量
44
审稿时长
6-12 weeks
期刊介绍: Each Interface Focus themed issue is devoted to a particular subject at the interface of the physical and life sciences. Formed of high-quality articles, they aim to facilitate cross-disciplinary research across this traditional divide by acting as a forum accessible to all. Topics may be newly emerging areas of research or dynamic aspects of more established fields. Organisers of each Interface Focus are strongly encouraged to contextualise the journal within their chosen subject.
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