Staff Profiles: Chemical Technology
Dr Munyaradzi Shumba
Position: Deputy Dean-Faculty of Science and Technology
Research Interests:
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Nanosensor fabrication based on Nanosized phthalocyanines and carbon based nanomaterials for disease indicator molecules,
Environmental remediation.
Dr Fidelis Chigondo
Position: Chairperson
Research interests:
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Organic synthesis
Continuous flow synthesis
Medicinal chemistry
Environmental remediation
Material chemistry
Professor Mambo Moyo
Position: Associate Professor
Research Interests:
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Electrochemical analysis, electrochemical sensors and biosensors.
Fabrication of biosensors using
Dr Upenyu Guyo
Position: Senior Lecturer
Research Interests:
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Water treatment
Applied synthetic organic chemistry
Catalysis
Process development
Continuous flow processing
Polymer synthesis
Computational
Chemistry
Dr Piwai Tshuma
Position: Lecturer
Research Interests
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Preparation of Metal-Organic Frameworks with functional groups for heterogeneous catalysis.
Dr Gift Mehlana
Position: Lecturer
Research Interests:
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Development of novel materials and their applications in heterogeneous catalysis, biomedical science and sensing.
Dr Edith Dube
Position: Lecturer
Research Interests
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Organic synthesis
Design and synthesis of nanomaterials
Medicinal Chemistry.
Fabrication of sensors
Miss Maureen Gumbo
Position: Lecturer
Research Interests
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Applied synthetic organic chemistry.
Metal-Organic Frameworks and applications.
Catalysis.
Mrs Ngceboyakwethu P. Zinyama
Position: Lecturer
Research interests
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Computational Chemistry,
Modelling of Breast Cancer drugs,
Materials Chemistry
Mr Vitalis Chitsa
Position: Lecturer
Research Interests:
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Materials Chemistry with particular specialisation in the area of porous metal organic frameworks (MOFs).
Mr Tichaona Nharingo
Position: Lecturer
Research Interests
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Environmental remediation
Developing novel nano-sorbents and membranes for wastewater treatment,
Development of Biosensors,
Inorganic synthesis
Nanotechnology and drug delivery
Ms Tafadzwa W Murinzi
Position: Lecturer
Research Interests:
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Catalysis using Metal organic frameworks (MOFs) the elucidation of structure-activity relationships in heterogeneous catalysis of Polyoxometalate (POMs) based Organic–Inorganic Hybrids.
