PhD (Chemistry), Rhodes University, South Africa, 2018
MSc (Chemistry with distinction), Rhodes University, South Africa, 2014
BScH (Chemistry), Rhodes University, South Africa, 2012
BSc (Biochemistry, Chemistry and Microbiology), Rhodes University, South Africa, 2011
Y2
Drug delivery
Photocatalysis
Antimicrobial application
Water treatment
Inorganic Chemistry
Environmental chemistry
Organometallic chemistry
Nanotechnology
M. Managa, S. Mgidlana, S. Khene and T. Nyokong. Optical limiting properties of indium 5,10,15,20-tetrakis(4-aminophenyl) porphyrin covalently linked to semiconductor quantum dots. Inorganica Chimica Acta. 511 (2020) 119838.
R. Matshitse, M. Managa and T Nyokong. The modulation of the photophysical and photodynamic therapy activities of a phthalocyanine by detonation nanodiamonds: Comparison with graphene quantum dots and carbon nanodots. Diamond and Related Materials 101 (2020) 107617.
C. L. Makola, M. Managa and T. Nyokong. Enhancement of Photodynamic antimicrobial chemotherapy through the use of Indium Cationic Porphyrin Conjugated to Ag/CuFe2O4 nanoparticles. Photodiagnosis and Photodynamic Therapy. 30 (2020) 101736.
Y. I. Openda, P. Sen, M. Managa, T. Nyokong. Acetophenone substituted phthalocyanines and their graphene quantum dots conjugates as photosensitizers for photodynamic antimicrobial chemotherapy against Staphylococcus aureus. Photodiagnosis and Photodynamic Therapy 29 (2020) 101607.
B. M. Motloung. K. E. Sekhosana M. Managa E. Prinsloo. T. Nyokong. The photophysicochemical properties and photodynamic therapy activity of phenyldiazenyl phenoxy substituted phthalocyanines when incorporated into Pluronic F127 micelles. Polyhedron 174 (2019) 114157.
N. Nwahara. M. Managa. E. Prinsloo. T. Nyokong. Design of Phthalocyanine-Nanoparticle Hybrids for Photodynamic Therapy Applications in Oxygen-Deficient Tumour Environment. Chemistry Select 4 (2019) 9095.
M. Managa, B. P. Ngoy and T. Nyokong. Photophysical properties and photodynamic therapy activity of a meso-tetra(4-carboxyphenyl) porphyrin tetramethyl ester–graphene quantum dot conjugate. New Journal Chem 43 (2019) 4524.
L. C. Nene, M. Managa, T. Nyokong. Photo-physicochemical properties and in vitro photodynamic therapy activity of morpholine-substituted Zinc(II)-Phthalocyanines pi-pi stacked on biotinylated graphene quantum dots. Dyes and Pigments 165 (2019) 498.
M. Managa, O.J. Achadu and T. Nyokong. Photophysical studies of graphene quantum dots - pyrene-derivatized porphyrins conjugates when encapsulated within Pluronic F127 micelles. Dyes and Pigments 148 (2018) 416
M. Managa, B. P. Ngoy, D. Mafukidze, J.Britton and T. Nyokong, Photophysical studies of meso-tetrakis(4-nitrophenyl) and meso-Tetrakis(4-sulfophenyl) gallium porphyrins incorporated into Pluronic F127 polymeric micelles. Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology. A, 348 (2017) 187 (invited paper)
Member of the South African Chemical Institute (SACI) – Membership Number
Member of the Society of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines (SPP)
Member of Black Women In Sciences (BWIS)
Editorial Board of Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Chemistry (specialty section of Frontiers in Chemistry)
Mail & Guardian's 200 Young South Africans (2018), Science and technology category
Photo-transformation of water pollutants using porphyrinoids compounds.
Development of Antibacterial agents (Synthesis and physicochemical properties.
Antimicrobial Photodynamic Therapy of nanostructured materials conjugated to porphyrinoids compounds
