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Dr LP Mona

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

Email: monalp@unisa.ac.za
Campus: Science Campus
Building: NB Pityana
Office: 01-070

  • PhD Chemistry (University of KwaZulu Natal, 2025)
  • MSc Chemistry (University of the Free State, 2018)
  • BSc Hons Chemistry (University of the Free State, 2015)

  • Water treatment
  • Microbial inactivation
  • Nanomaterial synthesis

  • Material Chemistry
  • Organic synthesis
  • Nanotechnology

  1. Ajibade, P. A., Mona, L. P., & Songca, S. P. (2024). Effects of reaction temperature and time on structural, morphological and optical properties of magnetite quantum dots prepared by solvothermal method. Journal of Inorganic and Organometallic Polymers and Materials, 34(2), 690-702. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10904-023-02841-3
  2. Mona, L. P., Songca, S. P., & Ajibade, P. A. (2024). Effects of temperature and precursor concentration on the morphological and optical properties of iron oxide nanoparticles. Chemistry Africa, 7(8), 4581-4591. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42250-024-01057
  3. Mona, L. P., Songca, S. P., & Ajibade, P. A. (2021). Synthesis and encapsulation of iron oxide nanorods for application in magnetic hyperthermia and photothermal therapy. Nanotechnology Reviews, 11(1), 176-190. https://doi.org/10.1515/ntrev-2022-0011

  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of South Africa, Florida Campus

  • Porphyrinoid nanoconjugates for photoinactivation of aquatic pathogens