First BioLogic BlueRev RDE in SA at WITS
BluRev is a range of robust, versatile, rotating disk (RDE) and rotating ring-disk (RRDE) electrodes ideal for use with BioLogic Potentiostat and Galvanostat. A range of quick-fit exchangeable electrode tips (multiple materials/diameters) can be easily added. The BluRev RDE was designed to be used with EL-ELECTRO cell series.
At WITS (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg), the Biologic BluRev RDE kit is being used in the water-splitting acid/alkaline electrolyser and fuel cell work. Professor Moloto’s research involves syntheses and characterisation of various types of semiconductor multidimensional nanostructures and their application in solar cells, fuel cells, electrolysers, gas sensors and as bio-labels for early diagnostics of diseases.
From front Left to Right then, back left to right: Professor Nosipho Moloto, Ms Esmie Mposa, Dr Grace Ngubeni, Mr Bruno Steiner and Dr Victor Mashindi.
Composites of these semiconductor nanostructures with transition metals and some noble metals are drop casted onto the working electrode, which is the glassy carbon electrode attached to the BluRev shaft, and measurements are done in acid and basic electrolytes for hydrogen evolution, oxygen evolution and oxygen reduction reactions. The research group also focuses on dye sensitised solar cells, biomarkers, and gas sensing.
