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President Kagame also met with a delegation from ARIST
2024 Annual Meetings: African scientific community validates project for ARIST
2024 Annual Meetings: African scientific community validates project for ARIST
President Kagame also met with a delegation from the African Materials Research Society (AMRS) and the African Renaissance Institute for Science and Technology (ARIST), led by AMRS Board Chair, Prof Wole Soboyejo. The delegation is in Kigali for the ongoing 12th International Conference of the African Materials Research Society, bringing together over 500 of the world’s top materials scientists, researchers, industrialists, and professors in different fields to build knowledge, promote collaboration and reflect on the needs of the global research community, and the needs that are specific to Africa.
2024 Annual Meetings: African scientific community validates project for ARIST
2024 Annual Meetings: African scientific community validates project for ARIST
2024 Annual Meetings: African scientific community validates project for ARIST
As part of its 2024 Annual Meetings, the African Development Bank held a high-level session with a broad range of representatives from the African scientific community, to discuss the African Renaissance Institute for Science and Technology (ARIST) implementation project, which got a ringing endorsement.
Hendrina Chalwe Doroba, head of the Education and Skills Development Division in the Bank's East Africa region, emphasised the importance of research and innovation in transforming Africa.
AfDB Endorses African Renaissance Institute for Science and Technology
2024 Annual Meetings: African scientific community validates project for ARIST
AfDB Endorses African Renaissance Institute for Science and Technology
During its 2024 Annual Meetings, the African Development Bank (AfDB) held a high-level session with representatives from the African scientific community to discuss the implementation of the African Renaissance Institute for Science and Technology (ARIST). The project received widespread endorsement, emphasizing its potential to transform Africa through research and innovation.
Hendrina Chalwe Doroba, Head of the Education and Skills Development Division for East Africa at the AfDB, highlighted the critical role of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) in Africa's development.
Inovative Research
Superlubricity - Low Friction Technologies
Superlubricity - Low Friction Technologies
Superlubricity - Low Friction Technologies
Carbon nanocrystals with variants of graphene footprints were deposited on these metallic surfaces using a novel high temperature biowaste treatment process. Superlubricious coefficient of friction of ∼0.003. A coating life of ∼150,000 cycles with reduced wear rates was obtained on Ni and steel substrates.
Energy Storage and Generation
Superlubricity - Low Friction Technologies
Superlubricity - Low Friction Technologies
The results show that moderate pressure improves the interfacial contacts and battery electrochemical performance characteristics with low induced strains in the electrolyte, while high pressure induces large axial and shear strains that can cause failure by yielding or cracking phenomena, in addition to the degradation of electrochemical performance characteristics. The highest room temperature conductivity of 9 × 10−5 Scm−1 was obtained at a stack pressure of 0.26 MPa.
Drug Delivery and Nano Science
Superlubricity - Low Friction Technologies
Drug Delivery and Nano Science
The preferential localization of porphyrins in tumors, as well as their ability to generate reactive singlet oxygen and low dark toxicities has resulted in their use in therapeutic applications such as photodynamic therapy. However, their inherent lack of bio-distribution due to water insolubility has shifted research into porphyrin-nanomaterial conjugated systems to address this challenge.
Graphene production
Responsible Artificial Intelligence
Drug Delivery and Nano Science
Carbon nanocrystals with signatures of graphene variants were deposited on bulk metallic substrates to answer the preceding fundamental questions in superlubricity. The process used a carbon source from “Manihot esculenta” biowaste. This low-cost and sustainable approach fulfills the circular economic model - turning waste into usable raw materials. The technique is simple, easy to design, and less expensive than conventional CVD and PVD techniques currently used for carbon-based coatings.
Responsible Artificial Intelligence
Responsible Artificial Intelligence
Responsible Artificial Intelligence
The Responsible Artificial Intelligence (AI) Lab (RAIL) is hosted at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana. RAIL seeks to be a first step in establishing a sustainable approach to nurturing local talent to engage in multidisciplinary, responsible AI for development research and innovation with a focus on women and that that responds to capacity requirements of the public and private sector.
Water Resources
Responsible Artificial Intelligence
Responsible Artificial Intelligence
Composted materials at the end of the experiment showed lower concentrations of available phosphorus and potassium in all the experiments than the initial substrate materials. Experimental trial, Maize cob (1:2) is the most preferred due to the fact that it contained more nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium and also carbon which are essential nutrients for plant growth and for improving on the soil organic matter content.
Pest control
Electric Cars
Electric Cars
Disclosed herein is a unique molecular marker in sorghum genome for conferring broad range fungal resistance trait, and the use of the molecular marker to manipulate resistance in sorghum. A disease resistance gene called ANTHRACNOSE RESISTANCE GENE 1 (ARG1) and a negative regulator, i.e. antisense transcripts of ARG1, called CARRIER OF ARG (CARG) for the fungi resistance gene are knocked out within a quantitative trait locus (QTL).
Electric Cars
Electric Cars
Electric Cars
The Sunyani Technical University has stepped up its plans to assemble and produce electric vehicles as part of its medium to long-term plans to contribute toward Ghana’s industrialization agenda.
To this end, students of the Faculty of Engineering of the University have been taken through a day’s training workshop on electric vehicles as part of a series of activities aimed at equipping the students with the requisite knowledge and skills necessary for the realization of the University’s plan.
Industrial Collaborations
Semiconductor Technologies Limited
Semiconductor Technologies Limited
Semiconductor Technologies Limited
Semiconductor Technologies Limited is a supplier of Semiconductor Technology and products. The Semiconductor Supply Chain is estimated at over 500 billion dollars a year. We have the capabilities to offer the following :
- Semiconductor Solution Capabilities
- Semiconductor Metal & Sputtering
- Semiconductor Microchip design
- Advanced Metrology Solutions including
Scanning Electron microscopy (SEM)
Ellipsometry, Resistivity, X-Ray, RBS
Optical Microscopy, Profilometry, Etc
Gearbox
Semiconductor Technologies Limited
Semiconductor Technologies Limited
Gearbox was founded in 2014. We provide a space around which a supportive ecosystem for hardware innovators and entrepreneurs has been built. This includes a prototyping facility providing SMEs, startups and innovators access to tools that would typically be beyond their reach. Over the years we've created a culture of openness and collaboration and exposed newly trained engineers and entrepreneurs to global opportunities. Gearbox Academy brings cutting edge knowledge of design and fabrication techniques to the community, while incubation, investment and business development services help entrepreneurs to bring new inventions and products to market quickly. The idea is to enable these innovators to learn/practice design allows for sharing resources for a wide range of manufacturing processes and creates a culture of openness and collaboration.
Baylis Emerging Market
Baylis Emerging Market
Baylis Emerging Market
Baylis is a private equity investor focused on African markets and built upon a platform that meets the highest standards of compliance and transparency.
We invest growth equity in established high potential companies across African markets, in the Telecommunications, Digital Infrastructure, Manufacturing and Industrials sectors, with an emphasis on unlocking their growth potential by adding substantial strategic, operational and management value.
We expect to drive sustainable local job creation, enhance domestic production capacity and foster technical and managerial knowledge transfer in these sectors that are the backbone of a diversified economy.
Baylis Digital
Baylis Emerging Market
Baylis Emerging Market
Baylis is focused on digital infrastructure and fintech companies in Africa building the rails that will ensure the continent’s participation in the 4th Industrial Revolution.
Baylis Emerging Markets has partnered with a successful operator-led management team to sponsor and establish Baylis Digital, a permanent capital company investing in and operating strategic digital infrastructure and connectivity assets.
- Proprietary access to attractive pipeline of high-quality digital infrastructure, services and content target companies.
- Best-in-class, operator-led management team with successful track record in Africa.
- Strategic partners with investment management expertise, access to capital, and deep relationships across Africa.
- An intention and ambition to next generation build digital infrastructure and connectivity platforms with continental scale.
