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X-ray tomography of apples at CT Scanner facility
X-ray tomography of apples - how does browning disorder affect pore spaces? This work provides a novel and in-depth insight into the effects of short-term high CO 2/low O 2 stress conditions on the microstructural properties of South...
Study about the resistance to Roundup (Glyphosate) uses DNA Sequencing
The herbicide, Roundup, has been used over the past 45 years in the Western Cape. As a result of this constant, high selection pressure, resistance to Roundup (Glyphosate) has developed in a range of weeds. Sparse genome data for these low...
Mass Spectrometry wins CAF Unit of the Year Award
The CAF Mass Spectrometry (MS) unit was awarded as CAF Unit of the Year by Prof Gary Stevens, CAF director. The MS unit managed to function cost-effectively and produced a profit during 2020 despite the difficult circumstances with the...
Hyperspectral cameras used for PhD study to evaluate the quality of maize
Dr Kate Sendin (Department Food Science) used the VNIR and SWIR hyperspectral cameras at the Vibrational Spectroscopy unit for her PhD project to develop methods, which can be used to evaluate the quality of maize. Maize kernels are graded...
Disinfectant, soap or probiotic cleaning?
A study about disinfectant, soap and probiotic cleaning extended probiotic cleaning research to a built environment. Through an eight-month cleaning trial researchers compared the effect of three cleaning products (disinfectant, plain soap...
X-ray micro-tomography used to study respiratory anatomy in live larvae
How respiratory structures vary with, or are constrained by, an animal's environment is of great importance to see the differences in evolutionary development and for comparative physiology hypotheses. It is challenging to investigate the...
Oil penetration into vetkoek analysed at Fluorescence Microscopy
The first study using confocal micrographs on the quantitative analysis of vetkoek or magwinya crumb and crust properties was done by scientists from the University of Venda at the CAF Fluorescence Microscopy facility. The confocal laser...
Meet the Teaching Excellence Award winner: Dr Martin Venter
For Dr Martin Venter, one of the recipients of Stellenbosch University (SU) Teaching Excellence Awards 2020–2021, teaching is a tough but rewarding profession. This senior lecturer at the department of Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering...
Exciting capabilities of X-ray tomography at CT Scanner highlighted in Nature Reviews
X-ray computed tomography (CT) can reveal the internal details of objects in three dimensions non-destructively. This non-destructive imaging modality is well known in its medical form, but it is also very useful for imaging materials and...
Women not safe in their own homes
The annual 16 Days of Activism for No Violence Against Women and Children campaign ends on Sunday 10 December. In an opinion piece for News24, Prof Juliana Claassens (Department of Old Testament and New Testament) writes that we sometimes...