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Dr N Ndebele

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

Email: ndeben@unisa.ac.za
Campus: Science
Building: NB Pityana
Office: A1-070

  • PhD, Chemistry (Rhodes University, 2023)
  • MSc, Chemistry (Rhodes University, 2019)
  • BScH, Chemistry (Rhodes University, 2017)
  • BSc (Rhodes University, 2016)

  • Material Science
  • Energy, batteries
  • Sensors
  • Desalination

  • Electrochemistry, electrocatalysis 
  • Material Science
  • Sensors
  • Nanotechnology

  1. Nobuhle Ndebele and Tebello Nyokong, The Electrochemical Detection of Nitrite Using Manganese Schiff Base Phthalocyanine Complexes, Electrocatalysis 13 (2022) 663-674. ISSN 1868-5994
  2. Nobuhle Ndebele and Tebello Nyokong, The Use of Carbon-Based Nanomaterials Conjugated to Cobalt Phthalocyanine Complex in The Electrochemical Detection of Nitrite, Diam. Relat. Mater.  132 (2023) 109672. ISSN 0925-9635
  3. Nobuhle Ndebele, Pinar Sen, Tebello Nyokong, Electrochemical detection of dopamine using phthalocyanine-nitrogen-doped graphene quantum dot conjugate, J. Electroanal. Chem. 886 (2021) 115111. ISSN 1572-6657.
  4. Nobuhle Ndebele, Sithi Mgidlana, Tebello Nyokong Electrocatalytic activity of cobalt phthalocyanines revisited: Effect of the number of oxygen atoms and conjugation to carbon nanomaterials, Electrocatalysis, 12 (2021) 499-515.
  5. Nobuhle Ndebele, Sithi Mgidlana, Tebello Nyokong, Electrochemical Detection of Nitrite Using Cobalt Phthalocyanine Conjugated to Metal Tungstate Nanoparticles, Electroanalysis 34 (2022) 1348-1362.
  6. Nobuhle Ndebele, Pinar Sen, Tebello Nyokong, Electrocatalytic activity of Schiff base containing copper phthalocyanines towards the detection of catechol: Effect of heteroatoms and asymmetry, Polyhedron 210 (2021) 115518.
  7. Nobuhle Ndebele and Tebello Nyokong, Electrocatalytic behaviour of Chalcone Substituted Co, Cu, Mn and Ni Phthalocyanines towards the detection of nitrite, J. Electranal. Chem. 926 (2022) 116951. ISSN 1572-6657.
  8. Bunin A. Dmitry, Nobuhle Ndebele, Alexander G. Martynov, John Mack, Yulia G. Gorbunova, and Tebello Nyokong, Low-Symmetry Phthalocyanines Bearing Carboxy-Groups: Synthesis, Spectroscopic and Quantum-Chemical Characterization, Molecules 27 (2022) 524.
  9. Nobuhle Ndebele, Zweli Hlatshwayo, Bokolombe P. Ngoy, Gugu Kubheka, John Mack, and Tebello Nyokong, Optical limiting properties of BODIPY dyes substituted with styryl or vinylene groups on the nanosecond timescale, J. Porphyr. Phthalocyanines, 23 (2019) 701-717. ISSN 1088-4246
  10. Nobuhle Ndebele, John Mack, and Tebello Nyokong, A 3,5-DistyrylBODIPY Dye Functionalized with Boronic Acid Groups for Direct Electrochemical Glucose Sensing, Electroanalysis, 31 (2019) 137-145. ISSN 1040-0397

Development of metal-air batteries for simultaneous seawater desalination and energy storage