UNIVERSITY PUBLICATIONS: Recent submissions

  • DNA origami site-specific arrangement of gold nanoparticles 
    Amoako, George; Ye, Rian; Zhuang, Lizhou; Yang, Xiaohong; Shen, Zhiyong; Zhou, Ming (University of Cape Coast, 2013-08-14)
    Controlling matter at the nanoscale holds a lot of promise in nanotechnology. The DNA origami is promising if used as a template to design and arrange matter at the nanoscale. We have used the DNA origami approach to ...
  • DNA origami as a tool to design asymmetric gold nanostructures 
    Amoako, George; Ming, Zhou; Eghan, Sackey; Sonko, Samuel (University of Cape Coast, 2017-12-06)
    DNA origami technology provides a versatile approach for the chemical assembly of gold nanostructures. In this study the bottom-up approach of self-assembly using DNA in the origami process has been successfully applied ...
  • Dissolved organic matter in hand‑dug well water as groundwater quality indicator: Assessment using laser‑induced fluorescence spectroscopy and multivariate statistical techniques 
    Sefa‑Ntiri, B.; Kwakye‑Awuah, B.; Edziah, R.; Anderson, B.; Armah, F. A.; Mensah‑Amoah, P.; Sackey, S. S.; Sam, F.; Akyea, A. G.; Yunus, S.; Tatchie, E.; Nkansah, B. K.; Kumi, F. (University of Cape Coast, 2019)
    In groundwater, dissolved organic matter (DOM), a complex material, is a contaminant of concern owing to its ability to influence water quality and stimulate microbial metabolism. Using a 445-nm diode laser-induced ...
  • Direct current generation in carbon nanotubes by terahertz field 
    Abukari, Sulemana S; Sam, Frederick; Mensah, Samuel Y.; Mensah, Natalia G.; Musah, Rabiu; Twum, Anthony; Amoah, Patrick M.; Owusu, Alfred (University of Cape Coast, 2016-02-29)
    We report on a theoretical investigation of a direct current generation in carbon nanotubes (CNTs) that are stimulated axially by terahertz (THz) field. We consider the kinetic approach based on the semiclassical Boltzmann’s ...
  • Direct current generation due to wave mixing in zigzag carbon nanotubes 
    Abukari, S. S.; Mensah, S.Y.; Mensah, N. G.; Dompreh, K. A.; Twum, A.; Allotey, F. K. A. (University of Cape Coast, 2000)
    Generation of direct current in zigzag carbon nanotubes due to harmonic mixing of two coherent electromagnetic waves is being considered. The electromagnetic waves have commensurate frequencies of Ω and Ω. The rectification ...
  • Differential thermo power of a chiral carbon nanotube 
    Mensah, S.Y.; Allotey, F.K.A.; Mensah G., N.G.; Nkrumah, G (2000)
    Differential thermo power of a chiral carbon nanotube (CNT) was calculated using a tractable analytical approach. We obtained an expression for the electrical conductivity and the thermo power. The results were numerically ...
  • Digital holography for 3D imaging and display in the IR range: challenges and opportunities 
    Pelagotti, Anna; Paturzo, Melania; Geltrude, Andrea; Locatelli, Massimiliano; Meucci, Riccardo; Poggi, Pasquale; Ferraro, Pietro (University of Cape Coast, 2010)
    In analog holography, the infrared (IR) range received quite some attention, since it could provide interesting information, not achievable otherwise. Since digital sensors in this band became recently available and ...
  • Laser-induced fluorescence spectroscopy (lifs) - a non-destructive method to detect tissue browning 
    Wulf, Janina S.; Herppich, Werner B.; Geyer, Martin; Zude, Manuela (University of Cape Coast, 2000)
    Laser-induced fluorescence spectroscopy (LIFS) was non-destructively applied on sound and bruised apples. Furthermore, the technique was tested to measure surface browning of freshly cut banana slices, which were treated ...
  • Determination of standard reference body indices for clinical application in Ghana 
    Issahaku, Shirazu; Mensah, Y. B; Schandorf, Cyril; Mensah, S. Y. (University of Cape Coast, 2017)
    The study is tailored to measure body height and weight in order to estimate local base standard reference body surface area, body surface index and body mass index (BSA, BSI and BMI) in Ghana for clinical application. The ...
  • Determination of dose delivery accuracy and image quality in full - Field digital mammography 
    Sosu, E.K.; Boadu, M.; Mensah, S.Y. (University of Cape Coast, 2017)
    Accuracy of dose delivered, image quality and some technical parameters of the Fujifilm e Amuletf full field digital mammography X-ray equipment has been undertaken. The study was conducted to review the overall condition ...
  • Determination of calorific values of coconut shells and coconut husks 
    Amoako, George; Mensah-Amoah, Patrick (University of Cape Coast, 2018-12-24)
    The coconut palm has a lot of uses including its use as composites and as fuels. In this work, we explored the use of a bomb calorimeter to determine the calorific values of coconut shells and coconut husks. A fixed sample ...
  • Design and fabrication of water phantom for treatment verification in high dose rate (hdr) brachytherapy of the cervix 
    Avevor, Justice; Amoako, Joseph; Amoako, George; Tagoe, Samuel Nii (University of Cape Coast, 2019)
    The aim of this study is to design and fabricate a local anatomical water phantom for dose distribution measurements during high dose rate brachytherapy of the cervix. Phantoms for dosimetry are used when there is a need ...
  • Design and construction of pneumatic transfer system controller unit for Ghana MNSR 
    Amponsah-Abu, E. O.; Nyarko, B. J. B.; Edziah, R. (University of Cape Coast, 2019-08-01)
    Pneumatic Transfer System (PTS) is an auxiliary system of Ghana Research Reactor-1 (GHARR-1) used to transfer sample capsule in and out of the reactor irradiation sites. The PTS’ controller unit design and construction ...
  • Deployment of a quantum cascade laser open- path gas sensor for water vapor and wood smoke analysis 
    Bentil, Ekua N.; Amuah, Charles; Michel, Anna P. M.; Eghan, Moses J.; Smith, James A.; Gmachl, Claire F. (University of Cape Coast, 2011)
    We present results from a widely tunable (296 cm -1) Quantum Cascade laser based-sensor used in sensing water vapor and target gases found in wood smoke in the rural fishing village of Elmina, Ghana
  • Recent trends in the daily rainfall regime in Southern West Africa 
    Nkrumah, Francis; Vischel, Théo; Panthou, Geremy; Klutse, Nana Ama Browne; Adukpo, David C.; Diedhiou, Arona (University of Cape Coast, 2019-11-26)
    Extreme climate events, either eing linked to dry spells or extreme precipitation, are of major concern in Africa, a region in which the economy and population are highly vulnerable to climate hazards. However, recent ...
  • Cost-based and effective human-machine based data deduplication model in entity reconciliation 
    Haruna, Charles R.; Hou, MengShu; Eghan, Moses J.; Kpiebaareh, Michael Y.; Tandoh, Lawrence; Eghan-Yartel, Barbie; Asante-Mensah, Maame G. (University of Cape Coast, 2018)
    In real world, databases often have several records representing the same entity and these duplicates have no common key, thus making deduplication difficult. Machine-based and crowdsourcing techniques were dis jointly ...
  • Cost effective profiling of neodymium-doped vanadate laser pulses 
    Edziah, Raymond (University of Cape Coast, 2018-03-30)
    As environmental conditions and component degradation and failure are known to affect the performance of ultrafast lasers, it is important to monitor their state in any nonlinear optical study. This may be achieved by ...
  • Connecting dna origami structures into a designed and functionalized network 
    Amoako, George (University of Cape Coast, 2019)
    The versatility of the DNA origami approach of organizing nanoparticles at the nanometer scale, together with thiol chemistry have been used. These approaches were used to design DNA origami structures and to functionalize ...
  • Connecting DNA origami structures using the biotin streptavidin specific binding 
    Ming, Zhou A; Ye, Rian; Mensah-Amoah, Patric; Twum, Anthony; Sam, Frederick; Amoako, George (University of Cape Coast, 2015)
    This work made use of the strong interaction between biotin and streptavidin to connect designed DNA origami structures. The caDNAno software was used to design a 6 layer 3D origami cross-like structure. Selected DNA strands ...
  • Comprehensive optical study of the dragonfly Aeshna cyanea transparent wing 
    Dompreh, K.A.; Eghan, M.J.; Kotsedi, L.; Maaza, M. (University of Cape Coast, 2012)
    The optical properties of the transparent wings of the Dragonfly Aeshna cyanea were studied using a comprehensive set of optical measurements, experimental analysis and theoretical modeling which involves the use of a high ...

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