# A Node For African Thought

Research and Innovation

To achieve and maintain the University’s vision and mission, the research and innovation division contributes mainly by promoting the research related goal of the institution which is: to drive growth in UNIZULU research and Innovation

Mr Prince Mkwae

Faculty: Science Agriculture and Engineering

Department: Physics

Discipline: Material Science

Highest Qualification

MSc

Contact details

Email: MkwaeP@unizulu.ac.za  

Campus: KwaDlangezwa

Impactful Research Publications

(Author(s); Year; Title; journal / publisher)

Mkwae, P.S., Kortidis, I., Kroon, R.E., Leshabane, N., Jozela, M., Swart, H.C. and Nkosi, S.S., 2020. Insightful acetone gas sensing behaviour of Ce substituted MgFe2O4 spinel nano-ferrites. Journal of Materials Research and Technology, 9(6), pp.16252-16269.

Mkwae, P.S., Ogundipe, S.A., Jozela, M., Revaprasadu, N. and Nkosi, S.S., 2022. The heat rate kinetics on the liquefied hydrocarbon gases sensing and food quality control detecting strategy. Materials Chemistry and Physics, 277, p.125550.

Nkosi, S.S., Mkwae, P.S., Ogundipe, S.A., Leshabane, N., Revaprasadu, N. and Kroon, R.E., 2022. Abnormal p-type to n-type switching during nitric oxide gas sensing: Ni (OH) 2 nanoplatelets on amorphous NiO seed layers. Vacuum, 200, p.111032.

Shozi, N.N., Kortidis, I., Mkwae, P.S., Chonco, N.P., Leshabane, N., Jozela, M., Kroon, R.E., Swart, H.C. and Nkosi, S.S., 2021. Extremely sensitive and selective flammable liquefied hydrocarbon gas sensing and inter-dependence of fluctuating operating temperature and resistance: Perspective of rare-earth doped cobalt nanoferrites. Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 859, p.157846.

Gumbi, S.W., Mkwae, P.S., Kortidis, I., Kroon, R.E., Swart, H.C., Moyo, T. and Nkosi, S.S., 2020. Electronic and simple oscillatory conduction in ferrite gas sensors: Gas-sensing mechanisms, long-term gas monitoring, heat transfer, and other anomalies. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 12(38), pp.43231-43249.