Applied physics research institute
Materials science for the energy transition
- research areas
- 12research areas
- departments
- 3departments
- founded
- 2026founded
Research areas
Five areas in energy physics, five in electronics physics, two cross-cutting.
Energy
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Post-lithium battery physics
Sodium-ion, iron flow batteries, lead-carbon: the physics of storage outside the lithium supply chain.
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Photovoltaics in the humid tropics
Imported modules are qualified for temperate or desert climates. Their ageing physics under permanent 80 % humidity is a blind spot.
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Thermoelectrics and waste-heat recovery
Cement plants, breweries and diesel gensets reject gigawatts of heat. Electron–phonon transport in earth-abundant materials.
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Materials physics for biomass and combustion
Pyrolysis and gasification kinetics of cocoa and palm residues, heat transfer in fixed beds, catalysts.
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Physical hydrology and small hydropower
Flood and low-flow regimes under climate variability, fluid mechanics of low-head turbines.
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Reliability physics in tropical environments
Electromigration, board-level corrosion, moisture diffusion in encapsulants, thermomechanical solder-joint fatigue.
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Wide-bandgap semiconductors for power electronics
SiC and GaN tolerate heat and overvoltage better than silicon. Traps, defects and interface transport.
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Discharge and lightning physics
The Congo basin is the most thunderstorm-prone region on Earth, and the physics of lightning–grid coupling there is almost unexplored.
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Electronic materials from abundant resources
Indium-free transparent conducting oxides, iron-based soft magnetic materials, dielectric ceramics.
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Computational physics
DFT, molecular dynamics, multiphysics simulation: electronic structure, phonon transport and point defects.
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Metrology and secondary standards
A country without secondary standards can neither certify nor export. Fundamental physics with immediate industrial impact.
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Building materials and building thermal physics
Air conditioning is the largest tertiary-sector electricity load. Phase-change materials, bio-based insulation, coupled transfers.
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Papers, preprints, datasets and code produced by the academy.
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The academy is starting its programmes. The first preprints will be deposited on arXiv and indexed here as soon as they go online, together with the associated data and code.
- Preprint deposited on arXiv or HAL before or at submission.
- Measurement data and analysis scripts released under an open licence with a Zenodo DOI.
- Affiliation “Nangmo Academy, Yaoundé, Cameroon” on all work, including collaborations.
- No publication in journals without an identifiable editorial board.