Mr Nana Mensah Agyei

Department of Chemistry
University of Venda
Private Bag X5050

0950 Thohoyandou, Republic of South Africa

 

 

Telephone: +27 15 962 8394, Fax: +27 15 962 8648, Cell: 082 927 0420
Email: nana@univen.ac.za



Brief CV

BSc(Hons)(UST, Ghana), 1979; UED(Univen), 1991; MSc(Hawaii, USA), 1994
Teacher, High Schools in Ghana, Nigeria, Zimbabwe and South Africa, 1979-1990; Chemist, CocaCola USA, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1991; Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Hawaii, 1991-1994; Lecturer, University of Venda, 1994-present.

Research Interests

Cementitious materials
Enantioseparation of pharmaceutical drugs
Environmental chemistry

Research articles in journals

1 Stalcup, AM and NM Agyei, "Heparin: a chiral mobile-phase additive for capillary zone electrophoresis", Anal. Chem., 1994, 66, 3054.

2 Agyei, NM, KH Gahm and AM Stalcup, "Chiral separations using heparin and dextran sulfate in capillary zone electrophoresis", Anal. Chim. Acta, 1995, 307, 185.

3 Agyei, NM, "Capillary zone electrophoretic enantioseparation of racemic antihistamines by dextran sulphates", Analytica, 1997, 5(3), 14.

4 Agyei, NM, "Estimation of chloroquine-heparin binding constants by capillary zone electrophoresis", S. Afr. J. Chem., 1998, 51(1), 60.

5 NM Agyei, CA Strydom, and JH Potgieter, "An investigation of phosphate ion adsorption from aqueous solution by fly ash and slag", Cement and Concrete Research, 2000, 30(5), 823-826.

6 NM Agyei, CA Strydom, and JH Potgieter, "The removal of phosphate ions from aqueous solution by fly ash, slag, ordinary Portland cement and related blends", Cement and Concrete Research, 2002, 32(12), 1889-1897.

7 NM Agyei, JH Potgieter, and CA Strydom, "A novel application of building materials in pre-treatment of water and wastewater", Technical Note submitted to Water SA, 2003.