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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: C2

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Contact Details:

Telephone number: 012 420 2588
Fax number: 012 420 2516
E-mail address: walter.focke@up.ac.za

Research Interests:

Polymers

Chemical Product Design

Characterisation and modification of materials

Nano technology

Research Output:

Research articles in refereed specialist journals:

Focke WW: 2008. Correlating Thermal Conductivity Data for Ternary Liquid Mixtures. International Journal of Thermophysics, 29, pp 1342-1360.

Nhlapo NS, Motumi T, Landman EP, Verryn SMC, Focke WW: 2008. Surfactant-assisted fatty acid intercalation of layered double hydroxides. Journal of Materials Science, 43 (3), pp 1033-1043.

Moyo L, Nhlapo NS, Focke WW: 2008. A critical assessment of the methods for intercalating anionic surfactants in layered double hydroxides. Journal of Materials Science, 43, pp 6144-6158, Full Text

Burns MG, Wagenknecht U, Kretzschmar B, Focke WW: 2008. Effect of Hydrated Fillers and Red Phosphorus on the Limiting Oxygen Index of Poly(ethylene-co-vinyl-acetate)-Poly(vinyl butyral) and Low Density Polyethylene-Poly(ethylene-co-vinyl alcohol) Blends. Journal of Vinyl & Additive Technology, pp 113-119.

 

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