Dr. Emmanuel Oke and Professor Herman Potgieter, have published an exceptional review article titled “Recent Chemical Methods for Metals Recovery from Printed Circuit Boards: A Review.” The publication of this outstanding paper marks a momentous achievement not only for Dr. Oke and Professor Potgieter but also for the entire SIMMET group. Dr. Oke and Professor …
The SIMMET Group extends heartfelt congratulations to our esteemed postdoctoral researchers, Dr. Emmanuel Oke and Dr. Joseph Nyembwe, on their recent accomplishments. Dr. Oke, in collaboration with Prof. Potgieter, has co-authored a paper titled “Discarded E-Waste/Printed Circuit Boards: A Review of their Recent Methods of Disassembly, Sorting and Environmental Implications,” which has been successfully published …
The SIMMET group welcome two new members who have joined us in January this year (2024). The first is Dr. Puja Hansdah, who is a new postdoc in the group on a Wits Centennial Fellowship from India. She will be working on cyanide recovery from mining effluents, a project in collaboration with Mintek. Dr Hansdah obtained …
The SIMMET Research Group is glad to announce to new research projects for 2024: You can apply for these research projects by contacting us on our contact page, citing the position and level at which you would like to apply. SIMMET also welcomes ARM and Mintek as new funders. Since its inception the research group …
The SIMMET group welcomes a new group of postgraduate students starting their projects this year. We look forward to their contributions to the group and wish them all much success and exciting results in their projects. They are: We say goodbye to the following team members now graduating, and wish them all well for their …
Dr Saeideh Babaee, one for the SIMMET group research leaders, has been awarded the Friedel Sellschop Fellowship for her work on hydrogen storage solutions.
Following its last bi-weekly Talk&Tell seminar for 2023 on Friday 24 November, the SIMMET Research Group concluded the academic year with a year-end braai to celebrate its achievements. Among its achievements this year, PhD student Samaneh Teimouri became the Wits School of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering’s first student to submit a PhD based on journal …
