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Dr FH Mudau

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow | College of Science, Engineering and Technology
School of Science | Institute for Nanotechnology and Water Sustainability

Campus: Science
Building: NB Pityana
Office: A1-070

  • PhD Chemistry (University of South Africa, 2023)

  • Water treatment using low-pressure membrane processes
  • Point-of-use water purification systems
  • Wastewater treatment and water reuse

  • Polymeric membrane synthesis, characterisation and application
  • Nanotechnology
  • Water treatment
  • Inorganic chemistry

  • Mudau, F., Motsa, M., Hassard, F., De Kock, L., 2022. Resin-loaded (enabled/anchored) heterogeneous polyether sulfone ion exchange membranes for saline groundwater treatment. Membranes, 12 (736), pp1-18. https://doi.org/10.3390/membranes12080736
  • Mudau, F., Motsa, M., Hassard, F., De Kock L., 2023. Multifunctional heterogeneous ion exchange membranes for ion and microbe removal in low salinity water. Polymers, 15(4), pp1-25. https://doi.org/10.3390/polym15040843

  • Postdoctoral Research fellow, University of South Africa, 2024
  • Exchange student to Cranfield University’s Water Research Department, United Kingdom, 2018
  • Exchange student to the University of Sao Paulo’s Innovation Hub, Brazil, 2017
  • Innovation challenge award, UNISA Research Week, 2017
  • FamelabSA UNISA Regional Heat Winner 2017
  • Best Pitch presentation, 6th Annual Gauteng Nanoscience Young Researchers’ Symposium (NYRS 2016), Second place, Mintek.

  • Hollow fibre membranes for wastewater treatment for water reuse
  • Ion exchange membranes for groundwater treatment
  • Low-pressure ultrafiltration membranes for surface water treatment