Acknowledgements
The authors would like to thank the Department of Science and Innovation and the
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa, for financial support.
We express our sincerest appreciation to all colleagues, postdoctoral fellows, and
students for their valuable contributions as well as the reviewers for their critical
evaluation of the proposal and chapters. We also thank the authors and publishers
for their permission to reproduce their published works. Our special thanks go
to Zachary Evenson at Springer Nature for his encouragement, cooperation,
suggestions, and advice during various phases of preparation, organization, and
production of this book. Finally, we would like to thank our CEO, T. Dlamini, for
his continued support and encouragement.
Pretoria/Johannesburg, South Africa
Pretoria, South Africa
Suprakas Sinha Ray
Malkappa Kuruma
ix
The authors would like to thank the Department of Science and Innovation and the
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa, for financial support.
We express our sincerest appreciation to all colleagues, postdoctoral fellows, and
students for their valuable contributions as well as the reviewers for their critical
evaluation of the proposal and chapters. We also thank the authors and publishers
for their permission to reproduce their published works. Our special thanks go
to Zachary Evenson at Springer Nature for his encouragement, cooperation,
suggestions, and advice during various phases of preparation, organization, and
production of this book. Finally, we would like to thank our CEO, T. Dlamini, for
his continued support and encouragement.
Pretoria/Johannesburg, South Africa
Pretoria, South Africa
Suprakas Sinha Ray
Malkappa Kuruma
ix