Elias Emeka Elemike
Country (Nationality)
Nigeria
Grantee Title
Project: Development of reduced graphene oxide-Ag-ZnO nanocomposites for multifunctional antimicrobial, photocatalytic and sensing applications
Grantee Description
Elias Emeka Elemike is a Lecturer at the Federal University of Petroleum Resources in Nigeria and a postdoctoral researcher at the North West University Mafikeng campus, South Africa. The holder of a PhD in inorganic chemistry has worked in different universities since 2012. He is so keen on green nanotechnology for various applications and has published more than 35 articles in peer reviewed journals. He has several international collaborations, including with China’s South East University and South Africa’s University of Kwazulu-Natal and the Nelson Mandela University, among others. He is a motivator, a great team-player and passionate for the well-being of the less privileged.
Project: Development of reduced graphene oxide-Ag-ZnO nanocomposites for multifunctional antimicrobial, photocatalytic and sensing applications
Elemike will be working at SN Bose National Centre for Basic Science Kolkata India with Arup Kumar Raychaudhuri and Barnali Ghosh on reduced graphene oxide-Ag-ZnO nanocomposites for multifunctional antimicrobial, photocatalytic and sensing applications. Such nanocomposites will be valuable in overall purification of waste water as it will detect possible contaminants through sensing methods, degrade dyes by photocatalytic means and deactivate pathogens due to the expected antimicrobial properties. Water purification is still a global challenge especially to the developing countries and this research is expected to use cheap methods to address such problems.