John O Adongo
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
Biography
John Onyango Adongo is a doctoral candidate registered at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany. He conducts collaborative research within the surface sciences group of Dr. Jörg Rappich based at the Institut für Si-Photovoltaik, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH (HZB). He currently holds a tutorial fellow position at the chemistry department, Egerton University, Kenya. As a material scientist, his doctoral research focusses on the design, fabrication and testing of potentially renewable HMI – chelating surfaces incorporating silicon as the substrate material. The approach for functionalizing substrate surfaces majorly involves the facile electrografting method achieved via electroreduction of aryl diazonium salts.