Biography:
Motlalepula Nete obtained a M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Chemistry at the University of the Free State in 2009 and 2013, respectively. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the South African Nuclear Energy Corporation Soc Ltd (Necsa) from 2004 to 2017 and a senior lecturer at the University of the Free State in 2018. He has been a senior researcher at Necsa since 2018. Interested in energy storage and hydrometallurgical processing of minerals using eco-friendly, economically viable, and safe methodologies. He has worked on tantalite, zircon, ilmenite, and pyrolusite minerals, as well as PGMs, gold, and tantalite waste evaluation and recycling.
Title : Separation of niobium and tantalum fluorides by precipitation with P-phenylenediamine