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Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences
School of Physical Sciences
Department of Geology

de Villiers, JPR

BSc(Hons)(UV) PhD(Illinois) - Professor

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Contact Details:

Telephone number: 012 420 2239
Fax number: 012 362 5219
E-mail address: jpdev@postino.up.ac.za

Research Interests:

Bushveld Complex and related intrusions

Investigation of the behaviour of platinum group elements in natural systems and the application to technical processes

Molecular Design

Applied Mineralogy

Research Output:

Research articles in refereed specialist journals:

Hammes F, Boon N, de Villiers JPR, Verstraete W, Siciliano SD: 2003. Strain-Specific Ureolytic Microbial Calcium Carbonate Precipitation. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 69 (8) / Aug, pp 4901-4909.

Hammes F, Boon N, Clement G, de Villiers JPR, Siciliano SD, Verstraete W: 2003. Molecular, biochemical and ecological characterisation of a bio-catalytic calcification reactor. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 62, pp 191-201.

Papers in refereed, published conference proceedings:

Tuling A, de Villiers JPR, Rossouw MH: 2003. TEM study of artefacts in electrolytic manganese dioxide. In Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Microscopy Society of Southern Africa, Microscopy Society of Southern Africa, pp 47-47.

Research and technical/policy output for clients:

de Villiers JPR, Tuling A: Technical Report: 2003. An Electron Microscopic Investigation of Electrolytic MnO2. For: Delta EMD, Nelspruit.

 

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