Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology and Nanomedicine

Bonex Wakufwa Mwakikunga has his patent on the lateral-gate field effect transistor with drain-source inter-digitation (coined LaGIDDS-FET) granted in the USA (2017), China (2017) and South Africa (2016) after rigorous PCT reviews. He also has more than 100 publications in impactful journals, a basketful of PhD and MSc students graduated under him and technology demonstrations apart from having guided some of his colleagues now to being top researchers in CSIR and beyond. He conducts research on nano-materials and develops nano-devices for gas sensing, breath analysis and nano-lasing applications. This is to answer the call for monitoring of gas pollutants in the mines, environment and health sectors including nano-laser-based data communication/computing systems. His research interests have seeded large-funding-attractors such as the Nano-Micro Device Manufacturing Facility and the gas sensing programme.