African Materials Research Society

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The formation of the AMRS, has its origins in the August 2000 ‘US-Africa Materials Workshop', held in Pretoria, South Africa. The workshop was co-organized and sponsored by the United States National Science Foundation (NSF) and the South African National Research Foundation (NRF) and sought to explore opportunities for collaboration between the USA and Africa with an overarching objective of developing the materials research capacity in Africa. It brought together over 70 leading scientists, industry researchers and Government representatives from the USA and 15 African countries, and they sculpted a forward-looking sustainable framework for driving materials research in Africa. Two years later, building on this initiative, on 12 December, 2002, the African-MRS was officially launched in Dakar, Senegal. The Dakar meeting, was attended by various world experts in the different facets of materials science, engineering and research, thus becoming the 1st AMRS International Conference. Subsequent biennial International Conferences were held in South Africa (2003), Morocco (2005), Tanzania (2007), Nigeria (2009) Zimbabwe, (2011), Ethiopia (2013), Ghana (2015), Botswana (2017), Tanzania(2019) and will be in Senegal (2022) and Rwanda (2024). In December 2017 Botswana was appointed Home of the African Materials Research Society secretariat which is currently Hosted by Botswana Institute for Technology Research and Innovation (BITRI) .

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african development, materials research, nanotechnology

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