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Ghanaian MPhil Materials Science and Engineering Student Lois Afua Damptey Beats Off Competition From PhD Students And Lecturers To Win Top International Award In Engineering Research.

Lois was one of the hundreds of people who submitted abstracts of academic work done in terms of the crystallography of the like sources manner – the experimental science of determining the arrangement of atoms in crystalline solids.

Out of the lot, about 100 entries from about 27 countries were selected and asked to prepare a pictorial presentation of their academic research to the Pan African Conference on Crystallography.

After their submissions, a jury of expert chose Maame Afua’s research as the best and for that, she won two top awards. One from the International Centre for Diffraction Data (ICDD) and the other from the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Lois’ research work touched on one amazing project. She set out to find a suitable material that could convert non edible Ghanaian oil seeds into bio-fuels. …and guess what… it works… she did find that suitable material. Her project is vital in using renewable fuels to augment national energy needs.


On what she gets from her award, she said the award will “help me get more grants to develop my research, I can also use the facility of ICDD anytime I need it for research and I am also getting a cash prize to download scientific journals free of charge.”



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