ASNAEM Research Meeting

Friday 10 Jul 2020, 08:00 → 18:00 Africa/Johannesburg

Zoom

Marcus Newton (University of Southampton)

ASNAEM-2020 Research Meeting
African Synchrotron Network for Advanced Energy Materials

This is the Zoom version of the ASNAEM-2020 Workshop which was scheduled for  June 10-11, 2020 in Johannesburg Sourh Africa. We postponed that Workshop to the new  ASNAEM-2021 Workshop. To remain connected, we held a subset of our presentations in a smaller online ASNEAM Workshop Friday 10th July between 09:00 and 12:00 (UK) time.

The aim of ASNAEM is to foster the development of skilled synchrotron users in the sub-sahara region and to build lasting partnerships with the respective beneficiaries. This is with the hope that when the first synchrotron facility is built in Africa, there will be a diverse local skilled user community capable and ready to utilse the facility. This project is funded by the UK Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) initiative.

The workshop aims to provide a platform for knowledge exchange and collaboration initiatives focussed on the use of synchrotron x-rays to study advanced energy materials. ASNAEM will enable a diverse local community that is well prepared to utilise the first African Light Source (AfLS). ​

Topics include:

• Energy materials characterisation
• Energy device design and fabrication
• Energy storage
• Other related synchrotron techniques

Registration and Abstract Registration

Students Welcome
Students are especially welcome and encouraged to attend.

The ASAEM is supported by: the UK GCRF and University of Southampton


For more information on sponsorship, contact the Organising Committee Chair by mail, Marcus C Newton at M.C.Newton@soton.ac.uk.

10:00 → 10:15 Welcome. Introduction to ASNAEM and GCRF

Speaker: Dr Marcus Newton (University of Southampton)

10:15 → 10:30 GCRF START Project

Speaker: Prof. David Billing (University of the Witwatersrand)

10:30 → 10:45 Overview of Energy Materials Research at the University of Nairobi

Speaker: Prof. Julius Mwabora (University of Nairobi)

10:45 → 11:00 Coherent X-ray Imaging of Multi-functional Materials

Speaker: Dr Marcus Newton (University of Southampton)

11:00 → 11:14 Structure-Property Relationships in Energy Materials

Speaker: Prof. David Billing (University of the Witwatersrand)

11:14 → 11:29 Interrogating the effects of ion implantation-induced defects on the energy storage properties of bulk molybdenum disulphide.

Speaker: Prof. Shunmugam Ramsamy Naidoo (Wits University)

11:29 → 11:44 Solar Cell Simulations

Speaker: Dr Alex Quandt (Wits)

11:44 → 11:59 Tea Break

12:00 → 12:15 Transparent Conducting Oxide Heterostructures

Speaker: Dr Prosper Ngabonziza (Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research)

12:15 → 12:30 Innovation

Speaker: Mr Brian Masara (SAIP)

12:30 → 12:45 African Light Source (AfLS)

Speaker: Prof. Simon Connell (University of Johannesburg)

Slides AfLS-ASNEAM-2020.pptx

12:45 → 13:15 Discussion

Speaker: Dr Marcus Newton (University of Southampton)

13:15 → 13:30 Closing Remarks

Speaker: Dr Marcus Newton (University of Southampton)