| Grantholder's name | Institution | Equipment information |
| Dr S Chikwembani | WSU | Atomic Force Microscope (replacement with particular options only) |
| Prof N Coville | WITS | AFM |
| FB Dejene | UOVS (QwaQwa) | Wet-station for completion of sol-gel set up Dynamic light scattering (DLS) |
| Mr WG Augustyn (changed to T Haveling) | TUT | Surface Area and Pore Analyser + Chemisorption Raman Microscope |
| Dr T Hillie | CSIR | Scanning Probe Microscopes (AFM/STM) |
| Prof E Iwuoha | UWC | Bruker optics spectrometer |
| Prof A Lewis | UCT | Zetasizer |
| Dr E Meyer | UFH | Spectral response/ Quantum efficiency/ IPCE system |
| Dr R Nemutudi | ITHEMBA LABS | Atomic Force Microscope |
| Prof N Revaprasadu | UZ | FTIR Spectrophotometer Powder X-ray diffractometer TGA/DSC UV/Vis Spectrophotometer |
| Dr A Douglas (changed to R Suss) | MINTEK | Nanosys-U,E-beam evaporator Tumbling system |
