Ungerer, M., Adei, E., Amakali, T. et al. (18 more authors) (2024) Chem4Energy – A Consortium of the Royal Society Africa Capacity Building Initiative. Interface Focus, 14 (4). 20240001. ISSN 2042-8898
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.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2024 The Author(s). Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited. |
Keywords: | collaboration, sustainable energy, capacity building |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Engineering & Physical Sciences (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 21 May 2024 12:17 |
Last Modified: | 19 Aug 2024 13:24 |
Published Version: | https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsf... |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | The Royal Society |
Identification Number: | 10.1098/rsfs.2024.0001 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:212642 |