| Grantholder | Institution | Project Title | Project focus |
| Professor BP Arbuthnot | WITS | Development of liposomal nanoparticle vectors for therapeutic delivery of antiviral RNA interference sequences | Viral therapeutics (HIV, Hepatitis) |
| Dr SB Bhattacharrya | WITS | Controlled growth of superstructures of nanowires and nanotubes for quantum electronic and opto-electronic device applications. | Developing of 1D Nanostructures for fast nano electronics |
| Dr T Govender | UKZN | An applied investigation of the effect of peptides structures assembled onto gold nanoparticles with respect to enzyme activity | Cancer drug delivery systems |
| Professor SE Iyuke | WITS | Brewing with yeast cells immobilised on brewer’s spent grains reinforced with carbon nanofibres | Bioprocess engineering of yeast cells for the beer industry |
| Professor JH Neethling | NMMU | Preparation and characterization of Nanomaterials | Strong materials (nuclear energy, minimg and minerals, advanced materials and manufacturing) |
| Professor MS Onyango | TUT | Evaluation and application of the novel magnetic and substrate-containing nanoparticles adsorption media in water and wastewater treatment | Water and Wastewater Treatment |
| Dr KI Ozoemena | UP(CSIR) | Studies on the Development of Electrochemical Supercapacitors and Fuel Cells Using Carbon Nanotube Based Redox Hybrids. |
Fuel cell Development |
| Ms LF Petrik | UWC | Beneficiation of platinum group metals (PGM) by development of nanostructured near surface alloys, functional materials and catalysts. | Strong materials(platinum group metals) |
| Professor RD Sanderson | US | Nanotechnology based systems for water purification. | Water and wastewater treatment |
| Professor SP Songca | WSU | Synthesis, characterisation and biomedical applications of magnetic nanoparticles with a ferromagnetic core and gold shell | Drug delivery systems (Anticancer research, Photodynamic therapy, Magnetic hyperthermia, Magnetic resonance imaging) |
