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  Hybridization of Photovoltaic and Thermoelectric Energy Harvesting Systems at Seismic Nodes

  Duncan, D., Mangwala, M., Mtengi, B., Zungeru, A. M., Diarra, B. & Chuma, J., 2020, In: International Journal of Engineering Research and Technology. 13, 9, p. 2417-2428 12 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Energy harvesting
  • Neural networks
  • DC-DC converters
  • Transducers
  • Hot Temperature

• Impact of Entropy Generation and Nonlinear Thermal Radiation on Darcy–Forchheimer Flow of MnFe₂O₄-Casson/Water Nanofluid due to a Rotating Disk: Application to Brain Dynamics

  Shaw, S., Dogonchi, A. S., Nayak, M. K. & Makinde, O. D., Mar 10 2020, In: Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering. 45, 7, p. 5471-5490 20 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • rotating disks
  • thermal radiation
  • brain
  • entropy
  • water
  13 Citations (Scopus)

• Impacts of waste management practices on water resources in harare

  Nhubu, T., Mbohwa, C., Muzenda, E. & Patel, B., 2020, Wastes: Solutions, Treatments and Opportunities III - Selected papers from the 5th International Conference Wastes: Solutions, Treatments and Opportunities, 2019. Vilarinho, C., Castro, F., Gonçalves, M. & Fernando, A. L. (eds.). CRC Press/Balkema, p. 531-536 6 p. (Wastes: Solutions, Treatments and Opportunities III - Selected papers from the 5th International Conference Wastes: Solutions, Treatments and Opportunities, 2019).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

  • municipal solid waste
  • management practice
  • waste management
  • water resource
  • prohibition
  1 Citation (Scopus)

• Improving energy detection in cognitive radio systems using machine learning

  Fajemilehin, T. O., Yahya, A. & Langat, K., Jan 2020, In: Journal of Communications. 15, 1, p. 74-80 7 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Radio systems
  • Cognitive radio
  • Machine learning
  • Multipath fading
  • Signal to noise ratio
  1 Citation (Scopus)

• Indoor Visible Light Communication: A Tutorial and Survey

  Mapunda, G. A., Ramogomana, R., Marata, L., Basutli, B., Khan, A. S. & Chuma, J. M., 2020, In: Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing. 2020, 46 p., 8881305.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Visible light communication
  • Light emitting diodes
  • Lighting
  • Incandescent lamps
  • Solid state devices

• Influence of mycorrhiza and fly ash on the survival, growth and heavy metal accumulation in three Acacia species grown in Cu–Ni mine soil

  Ultra Jr, V. & Manyiwa, T., 2020, In: Environmental Geochemistry and Health. 17 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Coal Ash
  • mycorrhiza
  • Heavy metals
  • Heavy Metals
  • Fly ash
  1 Citation (Scopus)

• Influence of phase composition and microstructure on corrosion behavior of laser based Ti–Co–Ni ternary coatings on Ti–6Al–4V alloy

  Adesina, O. S., Obadele, B. A., Farotade, G. A., Isadare, D. A., Adediran, A. A. & Ikubanni, P. P., Jun 25 2020, In: Journal of Alloys and Compounds. 827, 154245.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

  • titanium alloy (TiAl6V4)
  • Phase composition
  • Lasers
  • Corrosion
  • Coatings
  4 Citations (Scopus)

• Influence of sputtering parameters on the structural and mechanical properties of TiC thin film coating

  Abegunde, O. O., Akinlabi, E. T. & Oladijo, O. P., Aug 1 2020, In: Applied Surface Science. 520, 7 p., 146323.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • titanium carbide
  • Titanium carbide
  • titanium carbides
  • Sputtering
  • Structural properties

• Integrated and consolidated review of plastic waste management and bio-based biodegradable plastics: Challenges and opportunities

  Mazhandu, Z. S., Muzenda, E., Mamvura, T. A., Belaid, M. & Nhubu, T., Oct 2 2020, In: Sustainability (Switzerland). 12, 20, p. 1-57 57 p., 8360.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • plastic waste
  • Waste management
  • waste management
  • plastic
  • Plastics

• Intelligent load balancing techniques in software defined networks: A survey

  Semong, T., Maupong, T., Anokye, S., Kehulakae, K., Dimakatso, S., Boipelo, G. & Sarefo, S., Jul 2020, In: Electronics (Switzerland). 9, 7, p. 1-24 24 p., 1091.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Software defined networking
  • Resource allocation
  • Internet
  • Servers
  • Scalability
  1 Citation (Scopus)

• Interdependence of slurry erosion wear performance and residual stress in WC-12wt%Co and WC-10wt%VC-12wt%Co HVOF coatings

  Venter, A. M., Luzin, V., Marais, D., Sacks, N., Ogunmuyiwa, E. N. & Shipway, P. H., Feb 2020, In: International Journal of Refractory Metals and Hard Materials. 87, 9 p., 105101.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Erosion
  • Residual stresses
  • Coatings
  • Wear of materials
  • Compressive stress
  6 Citations (Scopus)

• Investigating engaged scholarship among community development faculty in the Southern African development community

  Lyken-Segosebe, D. & Braxton, J. M., 2020, In: International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social and Community Studies. 16, 1, p. 1-21 21 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • community development
  • university
  • field of study
  • website
  • content analysis

• Investigating the Earth Fill Embankment of the Lotsane Dam for Internal Defects Using Time-lapse Resistivity Imaging and Frequency Domain Electromagnetics

  Nthaba, B., Shemang, E. M., Atekwana, E. A. & Selepeng, A. T., Sep 1 2020, In: Journal of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics. 25, 3, p. 325-339 15 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • dams
  • Embankments
  • Dams
  • embankment
  • fill

• Investigation of the tensile properties of heat treated Ti-Mo alloys

  Raganya, L., Moshokoa, N., Obadele, B. A., Olubambi, P. A. & Machaka, R., Jul 2 2020, (Accepted/In press) In: Materials Today: Proceedings. 5 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Tensile properties
  • Hot Temperature
  • Twinning
  • Elongation
  • Yield stress

• Lake highstands in the northern Kalahari, Botswana, during MIS 3b and LGM

  Wiese, R., Hartmann, K., Gummersbach, V. S., Shemang, E. M., Struck, U. & Riedel, F., 2020, (Accepted/In press) In: Quaternary International. 9 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • highstand
  • lake basin
  • lake
  • catchment
  • sediment

• Layered mound, inverted channels and polygonal fractures from the Makgadikgadi pan (Botswana): Possible analogues for Martian aqueous morphologies

  Franchi, F., MacKay, R., Selepeng, A. T. & Barbieri, R., Nov 1 2020, In: Planetary and Space Science. 192, 15 p., 105048.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Botswana
  • analogs
  • lakes
  • sediments
  • deposits

• Leadership in the mining sector: A functional approach for optimum team performance in the fourth industrial revolution

  Manyuchi, M. M., Mbohwa, C. & Muzenda, E., 2020, Proceedings of the International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management. March ed. IEOM Society, p. 2932-2936 5 p. (Proceedings of the International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management; vol. 0, no. March).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

  Open Access

  • Industrial Revolution
  • Team Performance
  • Team Effectiveness
  • Team Cohesion

• Link Between Migration Status and Occupational Health and Safety of Filipino Migrant Workers in South Korea

  Ultra Jr, V. & Amit, L., 2020, In: Philippine Journal of Science. 149, 2, p. 417-428 12 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • migrant worker
  • Occupational health
  • South Korea
  • migration
  • occupational stress

• Long-range memory effects in a magnetized Hindmarsh-Rose neural network

  Etémé, A. S., Tabi, C. B., Mohamadou, A. & Kofané, T. C., May 2020, In: Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation. 84, 105208.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Memory Effect
  • Membrane Potential
  • Neural Networks
  • Range of data
  • Data storage equipment
  3 Citations (Scopus)

• Mechanical properties and structure of fly ash modified basic oxygen furnace slag based geopolymer masonry blocks

  Sithole, N. T., Okonta, F. & Ntuli, F., Aug 2020, In: Journal of Solid Waste Technology and Management. 46, 3, p. 372-383 12 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • masonry
  • slag
  • fly ash
  • furnace
  • mechanical property

• Mesoarchean TTG magmatism from the northeastern margin of the Kaapvaal Craton, southern Africa: Arguments for an exotic terrane (remnant of Pilbara Craton?)

  Rajesh, H. M., Liu, S. J. & Wan, Y., Feb 2020, In: Precambrian Research. 337, 20 p., 105552.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Southern Africa
  • pyroxene
  • Rivers
  • granitoid
  • craton
  2 Citations (Scopus)

• Metal sources and mineralizing fluids characteristics and evolution of the Khoemacau sediment-hosted Cu-Ag deposits, in the Ghanzi-Chobe Belt portion of the Kalahari Copper Belt

  Kelepile, T., Bineli Betsi, T. & Shemang, E., Jul 2020, In: Ore Geology Reviews. 122, 103559.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Sediments
  • Copper
  • Deposits
  • Metals
  • copper
  1 Citation (Scopus)

• Methane and nitrous oxide from ground-based FTIR at Addis Ababa: Observations, error analysis, and comparison with satellite data

  Yirdaw Berhe, T., Mengistu Tsidu, G., Blumenstock, T., Hase, F. & P. Stiller, G., Jul 30 2020, In: Atmospheric Measurement Techniques. 13, 7, p. 4079-4096 18 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • error analysis
  • nitrous oxide
  • Fourier transform
  • satellite data
  • microwave limb sounder

• MHD Double‐diffusive thermosolutal Marangoni convection non‐Newtonian Casson fluid flow over a permeable stretchable sheet

  Shaw, S., Mahanta, G., Das, M. & Mahala, BK., Feb 19 2020, In: Heat Transfer. 49, 4, p. 1788–1807 20 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • nonNewtonian fluids
  • Marangoni convection
  • fluid flow
  • interfacial tension
  • differential equations
  3 Citations (Scopus)

• Microstructural and mechanical properties of Ti-Mo alloys designed by the cluster plus glue atom model for biomedical application

  Moshokoa, N., Raganya, L., Obadele, B. A., Machaka, R. & Makhatha, M. E., Oct 9 2020, In: International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology. 111, p. 1237-1246 10 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Glues
  • Atoms
  • Mechanical properties
  • Electrons
  • Orthopedics

• Microstructural characterization and mechanical behaviours of TiN-graphite composites fabricated by spark plasma sintering

  Akinribide, O. J., Obadele, B. A., Akinwamide, S. O., Ayeleru, O. O., Eizadjou, M., Ringer, S. P. & Olubambi, P. A., Sep 2020, In: International Journal of Refractory Metals and Hard Materials. 91, 13 p., 105253.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Graphite
  • Spark plasma sintering
  • Characterization (materials science)
  • Hardness
  • Composite materials

• Microstructure, Hardness, and Wear Assessment of Spark-Plasma-Sintered Ti-xAl-1Mo Alloy

  Jeje, S. O., Shongwe, M. B., Ogunmuyiwa, E. N., Rominiyi, A. L. & Olubambi, P. A., Aug 1 2020, In: Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A: Physical Metallurgy and Materials Science. 51, 8, p. 4033-4044 12 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • sparks
  • Electric sparks
  • Plasmas
  • Hardness
  • hardness
  1 Citation (Scopus)

• Microstructure and Corrosion Response of Spark-Plasma-Sintered 304 Austenitic Stainless Steel Reinforced with Titanium Nitride in Chloride Environments

  Akinwamide, S. O., Obadele, B. A., Adams, F. V. & Olubambi, P. A., Jun 1 2020, In: Journal of Failure Analysis and Prevention. 20, 3, p. 833-842 10 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • titanium nitride
  • Titanium nitride
  • Chlorides
  • Electric sparks
  • Austenitic stainless steel

• Microstructure and scratch analysis of aluminium thin films sputtered at varying RF power on stainless steel substrates

  Mwema, F. M., Akinlabi, E. T., Oladijo, O. P. & Krishna, S., Jan 1 2020, In: Cogent Engineering. 7, 1, 12 p., 1765687.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Field emission
  • Stainless Steel
  • Aluminum
  • Thin films
  • Stainless steel

• Microstructure and surface profiling study on the influence of substrate type on sputtered aluminum thin films

  Mwema, F. M., Akinlabi, E. T. & Oladijo, O. P., 2020, In: Materials Today: Proceedings. 26, Part 2, p. 1496-1499 4 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Conference article › peer-review

  • Aluminum
  • Thin films
  • Substrates
  • Microstructure
  • Glass
  1 Citation (Scopus)

• Mikromorphologie und nanomechanische Eigenschaften von gesputterten Aluminiumdünnschichten

  Mwema, F. M., Akinlabi, E. T. & Oladijo, O. P., Jun 1 2020, In: Materialwissenschaft und Werkstofftechnik. 51, 6, p. 787-791 5 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Nanoindentation
  • Aluminum
  • nanoindentation
  • Thin films
  • Elastic moduli

• Mind the gap: What explains the poor-non-poor inequalities in severe wasting among under-five children in low- And middle-income countries? Compositional and structural characteristics

  Fagbamigbe, A. F., Kandala, N. B. & Uthman, O. A., Nov 2020, In: PLoS One. 15, 11 November, e0241416.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Health Surveys
  • income
  • Education
  • Income
  • Health

• Modelling time-to-discontinuation of exclusive breastfeeding: Analysis of infants and under-2 survival in Nigeria

  Oyedele, O. K., Fagbamigbe, A. F. & Ayeni, O., Feb 2020, In: Etude de la Population Africaine. 34, 1, p. 5132-5142 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Nigeria
  • infant
  • time
  • cross-sectional study
  • determinants

• Modern sediment records of hydroclimatic extremes and associated potential contaminant mobilization in semi-arid environments: lessons learnt from recent flood-drought cycles in southern Botswana

  Franchi, F., Ahad, J. M. E., Geris, J., Jhowa, G., Petros, A. K. & Comte, J. C., Mar 1 2020, In: Journal of Soils and Sediments. 20, 3, p. 1632-1650 19 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • arid environment
  • mobilization
  • drought
  • pollutant
  • sediment

• Modulational instability in nonlinear doped optical fiber induced by the cubic–quintic–septic complex Ginzburg–Landau equation with higher-order dispersions

  Kefilwe Ndebele, K., Bertrand Tabi, C. & Crépin Kofané, T., Nov 1 2020, In: Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics. 37, 11, p. A214-A227

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  2 Citations (Scopus)

• Modulational instability in weak nonlocal nonlinear media with competing Kerr and non-Kerr nonlinearities

  Zanga, D., Fewo, S. I., Tabi, C. B. & Kofané, T. C., Jan 1 2020, In: Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation. 80, 104993.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Modulational Instability
  • Quintic
  • Nonlocality
  • Nonlinearity
  • Plane Wave
  4 Citations (Scopus)

• Modulational instability of coupled waves in electronegative plasmas

  TABI, CONRAD. BERTRAND., Panguetna, C. S., Motsumi, T. G. & Kofane, T. C., May 1 2020, In: Physica Scripta. 95, 17 p., 075211.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Modulational Instability
  • Plasma
  • negative ions
  • ion concentration
  • Ludwig Boltzmann

• Modulational instability of gap solitons in single-walled carbon nanotube lattices

  Mozola, B., Tabi, C. B. & Kofané, T. C., Jan 2020, In: Wave Motion. p. 102511

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes
  • Modulational Instability
  • Solitons
  • Breathers
  • Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCN)

• Modulation instability in nonlinear metamaterials modeled by a cubic-quintic complex Ginzburg-Landau equation beyond the slowly varying envelope approximation

  Megne, L. T., Tabi, C. B. & Kofane, T. C., Oct 8 2020, In: Physical Review E. 102, 4, 042207.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Metamaterials
  • Complex Ginzburg-Landau Equation
  • Landau-Ginzburg equations
  • Modulation
  • Quintic

• Molecular dynamics and density functional theory studies of γ-butyrolactone (GBL) + ethanol and γ-valerolactone (GVL) + ethanol liquid mixtures

  Mbaiwa, F. & Nyepetsi, M., Dec 1 2020, In: Journal of Molecular Liquids. 319, 13 p., 114128.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Density functional theory
  • Lactones
  • Molecular dynamics
  • Ethanol
  • ethyl alcohol

• Morphological investigation and mechanical behaviour of agrowaste reinforced aluminium alloy 8011 for service life improvement

  Babaremu, K. O., Joseph, O. O., Akinlabi, E. T., Jen, T. C. & Oladijo, O. P., Nov 2020, In: Heliyon. 6, 11, 8 p., e05506.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • service life
  • aluminum alloys
  • reinforcement
  • hardness
  • tensile strength

• Multistage gold mineralization events in the Archean Tati greenstone Belt, northeast Botswana: Constraints from integrative white mica Ar/Ar, garnet U-Pb and sulfides Pb/Pb geochronology

  Bineli Betsi, T., Mokane, L., McFarlane, C., Phili, K. & Kelepile, T., Apr 2020, In: Precambrian Research. 339, 21 p., 105623.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Geochronology
  • mica
  • Garnets
  • Sulfides
  • greenstone belt
  1 Citation (Scopus)

• Myrothamnus flabellifolius attenuates streptozotocin high energy diet-induced type 2 diabetes in male sprague dawley rats

  Kwape, T., Chaturvedi, P., Gaobotse, G., Masisi, K., Bati, K. & Majinda, R., 2020, In: Journal of Medicinal Plants Research. 14, 12, p. 625-637

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Myrothamnus
  • high energy diet
  • streptozotocin
  • noninsulin-dependent diabetes mellitus
  • rats

• Nanoindentation studies and characterization of hybrid nanocomposites based on solvothermal process

  Ayeleru, O. O., Dlova, S., Akinribide, O. J., Olorundare, O. F., Akbarzadeh, R., Kempaiah, D. M., Hall, C., Ntuli, F., Kupolati, W. K. & Olubambi, P. A., Mar 2020, In: Inorganic Chemistry Communications. 113, 11 p., 107704.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Nanoindentation
  • Nanocomposites
  • nanoindentation
  • nanocomposites
  • Indentation
  2 Citations (Scopus)

• Nonlinear Dynamical Regimes and Control of Turbulence through the Complex Ginzburg-Landau Equation

  Bruno Gonpe Tafo, J., Nana, L., Bertrand Tabi, C. & Crépin Kofané, T., Mar 11 2020, Research Advances in Chaos Theory. IntechOpen, (Research Advances in Chaos Theory).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Numerical simulation for entropy optimized nonlinear radiative flow of GO-Al₂O₃ magneto nanomaterials with auto catalysis chemical reaction

  Shaw, S., Mabood, F., Muhammad, T., Nayak, M. K. & Alghamdi, M., Nov 27 2020, In: Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations. p. 1-30 30 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Nanomaterials
  • Graphene
  • Catalysis
  • Nanofluid
  • Graphene oxide

• On fixed point results for hemicontractive-type multi-valued mapping, finite families of split equilibrium and variational inequality problems

  Meche, T. H. & Zegeye, H., Jun 2020, In: Sahand Communications in Mathematical Analysis. 17, 3, p. 189-217 29 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Hilbert spaces
  • Multivalued Mapping
  • Variational Inequality Problem
  • Fixed point
  • Family

• Open data for sustainable development on a knowledge-based economy: The case of Botswana

  Sebubi, O., Zlotnikova, I. & Hlomani, H., 2020, In: Data Science Journal. 19, 1, p. 1-6 6 p., 44.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Open Data
  • Sustainable development
  • Economics
  • Developing countries
  • Conceptual design

• Opportunities and limitations for source separation of waste generated in Harare

  Nhubu, T., Mbohwa, C., Muzenda, E. & Patel, B., 2020, Wastes: Solutions, Treatments and Opportunities III - Selected papers from the 5th International Conference Wastes: Solutions, Treatments and Opportunities, 2019. Vilarinho, C., Castro, F., Gonçalves, M. & Fernando, A. L. (eds.). CRC Press/Balkema, p. 537-542 6 p. (Wastes: Solutions, Treatments and Opportunities III - Selected papers from the 5th International Conference Wastes: Solutions, Treatments and Opportunities, 2019).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

  • municipal solid waste
  • separation at source
  • waste management
  • waste composition
  • energy recovery
  1 Citation (Scopus)

• Optical dispersion analysis of template assisted 1D-ZnO nanorods for optoelectronic applications

  Lefatshe, K., Dube, P., Sebuso, D., Madhuku, M. & Muiva, C., 2020, (Accepted/In press) In: Ceramics International.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Nanorods
  • Zinc Oxide
  • Zinc oxide
  • Optoelectronic devices
  • Surface active agents