Vol. 105 No. 7/8 (2009)

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Published: 2010-01-19

News

Setting priorities for health spending in South Africa

Michael Cherry

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Opinion

A sputnik moment? The Natural Sciences and Humanities.An interview with Edward L.Ayers

Peter Vale
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Leader

Nanoscience and Nanotechnology in South Africa

Leskey Cele, Suprakas Sinha Ray, Neil Coville

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Book Reviews

Animals and People. Archaeozoological Papers in Honour of Ina Plug

D. Margaret Avery

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Medicinal Plants of South Africa

N. Makunga

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News Feature

SA vaccine trials launched,but future funding not secure

Craig McKune
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Research Articles

The influence of cation, anion and water content on the rate of formation and pore size distribution of zeolite ZSM-5

L. Petrik

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N,N'-diisopropylthiourea and N,N'-dicyclohexyl-thiourea zinc(II) complexes as precursors for the synthesis of ZnS nanoparticles

N. Moloto, N. Revaprasadu, M.J. Moloto, P. O'Brien, J. Raftery
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Microstructure cantilever beam for current measurement

H.A.B. Mustafa, M.T.E. Khan

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Carbon-nanostructured materials for energy generation and storage applications

P. Ndungu, A. Nechaev, L. Khotseng, N. Onyegebule, W. Davids, R. Mohammed, G. Vaivars, V. Linkov
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Correspondence

Not Real Funding?

Ed Rybicki

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Research Letters

Flat-topped emission centred at 1 250 nm from quantum dot superluminescent diodes

D. Childs, K.M. Groom, S.K. Ray, H.Y. Liu, M. Hopkinson, R.A. Hogg
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Continuous production of carbon nanotubes and diamond films by swirled floating catalyst chemical vapour deposition method

A.S. Afolabi, A.S. Abdulkareem, S.E. Iyuke, H.C. van Zyl Pienaar
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Second harmonic generation as a technique to probe buried interfaces

P.H. Neethling, T. T. Scheidt, E.G. Rohwer, H.M. von Bergmann, H. Stafast
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Applicability of analytical protocols for the characterisation of carbon-supported platinum group metal fuel cell electrocatalysts

M. Williams, L. Khotseng, Q. Naidoo, L. Petrik, A. Nechaev, V. Linkov
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Synthesis of nanocrystalline silicon thin films using the increase of the deposition pressure in the hot-wire chemical vapour deposition technique

S. Halindintwali, D. Knoesen, R. Swanepoel, B.A. Julies, C. Arendse, T. Muller, C.C. Theron, A. Gordijn, P.C.P. Bronsveld, J.K. Rath, R.E.I. Schropp
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Numerical solution of multiband k.p model for tunnelling in type-II heterostructures

A.E. Botha

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Photocatalytic degradation of methyl red dye

M.A. Mahmoud, A. Poncheri, Y. Badr, M.G. Abd El Wahed
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Synthesis and study of carbon microspheres for use as catalyst support for cobalt

S.D. Mhlanga, K.C. Mondal, N. Naidoo, M.J. Witcomb, N.J. Coville
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Circular dichroism as a means to follow DNA gymnastics: on the shoulders of giants

M. Mills, C. Lin, M. Chauhan, H.H. Klump
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An assessment of the likely impact of strain-related phenotypic plasticity on hominin fossil species identification

M. Collard, S.J. Lycett
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Biological survey of the Prince Edward Islands, December 2008

J. Cooper, M.N. Bester, S.L. Chown, R.J.M. Crawford, R. Daly, E. Heyns, T. Lamont, P.G. Ryan, J.D. Shaw
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