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Democracy faces growing strain as institutions weaken and trust erodes

Dr Sishuwa Sishuwa is a senior lecturer in the Department of History at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. His research focuses on the political history...
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Prof Rong-Jie Wang helps to improve SA’s energy efficiency, power generation capacity

Prof Rong-Jie Wang helps to improve SA’s energy efficiency, power generation capacity

​Prof Rong-Jie Wang from the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Stellenbosch University recently delivered his inaugural lecture titled...

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Gold fingerprinting using laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry

Gold fingerprinting using laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry

Gold fingerprinting is the identification of different origins of gold through specific element associations, resul­ting in a characteristic chemical signa...

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Prof Naudé receives honorary title from European university

Prof Naudé receives honorary title from European university

​​​Prof Piet Naudé, Emeritus Professor of Ethics at the Stellenbosch Business School (SBS), has received an honorary title from the Technical University of...

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Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy (STEM)

Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy (STEM)

Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy (STEM) 

Sample: Colorectal Cancer Cells 

Instruments: ThermoFisher Apreo STEM, Leica UC7 Ultra-Microtome  

Description...

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​Super-resolution microscopy – SR-SIM

​Super-resolution microscopy – SR-SIM

​Super-resolution microscopy – SR-SIM 

Sample: Neuronal cells 

Instrument: ZEISS LSM780 with ELYRA PS1 

The confocal microscope is also equipped with two super...

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Montage (MERLIN)

Montage (MERLIN)

Montage (MERLIN) 

Sample: Geological sample  

Instrument: ZEISS MERLIN FE-SEM 

Description: The AZTEC Software combined with the MERLIN FE-SEM allows for high...

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