Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology
School of Engineering
Department of Chemical Engineering
Focke, WW
MIng(Pret) PhD(MIT) - Professor and Director: ITM
NRF Rating: C3
Contact Details
Research Interests
Research Output
Contact Details:
Telephone number: 012 420 2588
Fax number: 012 420 2516
E-mail address: walter.focke@up.ac.za
Research Interests:
Polymers
Characterisation and modification of materials
Nano technology
Research Output:
Research articles in refereed specialist journals:
Pieterse N, Focke WW, Vuorinen E, Racz I: 2006. Estimating the gas permeability of commercial volatile corrosion inhibitors at elevated temperatures with thermo-gravimetry. Corrosion Science, 48, pp 1986-1995.
Karakatsanis E, Focke WW, Summers G J: 2006. SEM studies of surfactant-assisted micro-mixing of melamine and wax particles. Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 99, pp 2554-2557.
Sita C, Burns M, Hassler R, Focke WW: 2006. Tensile properties of thermoplastic starch-PVB blends. Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 101 (3), pp 1751-1755.
Focke WW, Grobler M: 2006. Low-pressure vapor-liquid data reduction using only equilibrium composition data. Journal of Chemical Engineering of Japan, 39 (2), pp 114-120.
Landman EP, Focke WW: 2006. Stearate intercalated layered double hydroxides: Effect on the physical properties of dextrin-alginate films. Journal of Materials Science, 41, pp 2271-2279.
Focke WW: 2006. Mixture models based on neural network averaging. Neural Computation, 18, pp 1-9.
Landman EP, Focke WW: 2006. Poly(vinal sulfonate) intercalation into stearate intercalated layered double hydroxides. South African Journal of Science, 102 (11/12).
Papers in refereed, published conference proceedings:
Focke WW: 2006. Mixture model for correlating excess enthalpy data. In SACEC 2006: Engineering Africa in the 21st Century, South African Institution of Chemical Engineers, p. 12.
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