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Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences
Department of Chemistry

Ozoemena, KI

BSc(Hons)(ABSU Nigeria) MSc(Lagos Nigeria) PhD(Rhodes) - Senior Lecturer

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Telephone number: 012-420 2515
Fax number: 012-362 5297
E-mail address: kenneth.ozoemena@up.ac.za

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Materials Chemistry

Chemical synthesis

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Research articles in refereed specialist journals:

Maxakato NW, Maxakato K, Ozoemena KI, Arendse CJ: 2010. Dynamics of electrocatalytic Oxidation of Ethylene Glycol, Methanol and Formic Acid at MWCNT Platform electrochemically Modified with Pt/Ru Nanoparticles. Electroanalysis, 22 (5) / Oct, pp 519-529.

Mamuru SA, Ozoemena KI: 2010. Heterogeneous Electron Transfer and Oxygen Reduction Reaction at Nanostructured Iron (II) Phthalocyanine and Its MWCNTs Nanocomposites. Electroanalysis, 22 (9), pp 985-994.

Chidembo AT, Ozoemena KI: 2010. Electrochemical Capacitive Behaviour of Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes Modified with Electropolymeric Films of Nickel Tetraaminophthalocyanine. Electroanalysis, 22 (21) / June, pp 2529-2535.

Adekunle AS, Ozoemena KI: 2010. Electrocatalytic Oxidation of Diethylaminoethanethiol and Hydrazine at Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes Modified with Prussian Blue Nanoparticles. Electroanalysis, 22 (21), pp 2519-2528.

Mamuru SA, Ozoemena KI: 2010. Iron (II) tetrakis(diaquaplatinum) octacarboxyphthalocyanine suported on multi-walled carbon nanotubes as effective electrocatalyst for oxygen reduction reaction in alkaline medium. Electrochemistry Communications, 12 / Aug, pp 1539-1542.

Adekunle AS, Pillay J, Ozoemena KI: 2010. Probing the electrochemical behaviour of SWCNT-cobalt nanoparticles and their electrocatalytic activities towards the detection of nitrite at acidic and physiological pH conditions. Electrochimica Acta, 55, pp 4319-4327, Full Text

Mamuru SA, Ozoemena KI, Fukuda T, Kobayashi N, Nyokong T: 2010. Studies on the heterogeneous electron transport and oxygen reduction reaction at metal (Co, Fe) octabutylsulphonylphthalocyanines supported on multi-walled carbon nanotube modified graphite electrode. Electrochimica Acta, 55 / June, pp 6367-6375.

Chidembo AT, Ozoemena KI, Agboola BO, Gupta V, Wildgoose GG, Compton RG: 2010. Nickel (II) tetra-aminophthalocyanine modified MWCNTs as potential nanocomposite materials for the development of supercapacitors. Energy & Environmental Science, 3, pp 228-236, Full Text

Adekunle AS, Ozoemena KI: 2010. Comparative Surface Electrochemistry of Co and C0304 Nanoparticles: Nitrite as an Analytical Probe. International Journal Of Electrochemical Science, 5 / Dec, pp 1972-1983, Full Text

Adekunle AS, Ozoemena KI: 2010. Voltammetric and Impedimetric Properties of Nano-scaled y-Fe2O3 Catalysts Supported on Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes: Catalytic Detection of Dopamine. International Journal Of Electrochemical Science, 5 / Dec, pp 1726-1742, Full Text

Adekunle AS, Ozoemena KI: 2010. Electron transport and electrocatalytic properties of MWCNT/nickel nanocomposites: Hydrazine and diethylaminoethanethiol as analytical probes. Journal Of Electroanalytical Chemistry, 645 / April, pp 41-49.

Mamuru SA, Ozoemena KI, Fukuda T, Kobayashi N: 2010. Iron(II) tetrakis(diaquaplatinum)octacarboxyphthalocyanine supported on multi-walled carbon nanotube platform: an efficient functional material for enhancing electron transfer kinetics and electrocatalytic oxidation of formic acid. Journal of Materials Chemistry, 20 / Sept, pp 10705-10715, Full Text

Agboola BO, Pillay J, Makgopa K, Ozoemena KI: 2010. Electrochemical Characterization of Mixed Self-Assembled Films of Water-Soluble Single-Walled Carbon nanotube-Poly(m-aminobenzene sulfonic acid) and Iron (II) Tetrasulfophthalocyanine. Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 157 (11) / Sept, pp F159-F166.

Pillay J, Ozoemena KI, Tshikhudo RT, Moutloali RM: 2010. Monolayer-Protected Clusters of Gold Nanoparticles: Impacts of Stabilizing Ligands on the Heterogeneous Electron Transfer Dynamics and Voltammetric Detection. Langmuir, 26 (11) / Jan, pp 9061-9068.

Ozoemena KI, Mathebula NS, Pillay J, Toschi G, Verschoor JA: 2010. Electron transfer dynamics across self-assembled N-(2-mercaptoethyl) octadecanamide / mycolic acid layers: impedimetric insights into the structural integrity and interaction with anti-mycolic acid antibodies. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 12, pp 345-357, Full Text

Nkosi D, Pillay J, Ozoemena KI, Nouneh K, Oyama M: 2010. Heterogeneous electron transfer kinetics and electrocatalytic behaviour of mixed self-assembled ferrocenes and SWCNT layers. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 12, pp 604-613, Full Text

Adekunle AS, Agboola BO, Pillay J, Ozoemena KI: 2010. Electrocatalytic detection of dopamine at single-walled carbon nanotubes-iron (III) oxide nanoparticles platform. Sensors and Actuators B-Chemical, 148 / April, pp 93-102.

 

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