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P. G. Kareru

Publications (4)

Assessment of the Anti-microbial Action of Zero Valent Iron Nanoparticle Synthesized by Aspilia pluriseta Extracts

A. O. Nyabola, P. G. Kareru, E. S. Madivoli, E. G. Maina & I. S. Wanakai · Chemical Science International Journal · 2018

Antimicrobial resistance has proved to be a great burden to the current health care system as more potent drugs are required to combat this global challenge. Due to this problem there was need to explore new ways that would eradicate drug resistance hence the need to utilize the...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/CSJI/2018/45799

Comparative Study of Carboxymethyl Cellulose Synthesis from Selected Kenyan Biomass

P. K. Kimani, P. G. Kareru, S. E. Madivoli, P. K. Kairigo, E. G. Maina & O. S. Rechab · Chemical Science International Journal · 2016

Materials that are of low cost, bio-based and biodegradable are the basis within which today’s industrial technology is trying to accommodate. Cellulose being a low cost polymer is naturally occurring, bio-based, renewable and biodegradable thus its derivatives are incorporated i...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/CSJI/2016/29390

Adsorption of Selected Heavy Metals on Modified Nano Cellulose

E. S. Madivoli, P. G. Kareru, A. N. Gachanja, S. Mugo, M. K. Murigi, P. K. Kairigo, Cheruiyot Kipyegon, J. K. Mutembei & F. K. Njonge · International Research Journal of Pure and Applied Chemistry · 2016

Cellulose is an inexpensive, renewable, bio-based and an abundant raw material suitable for the development of filter membranes for water purification. This is because it has numerous functional groups that afford ease of modification to create active surfaces upon chemical modif...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/IRJPAC/2016/28548

Phytochemical Screening of Crude Extracts of Bridelia micrantha

C. Mburu, P. G. Kareru, C. Kipyegon, E. S. Madivoli, E. G. Maina, P. K. Kairigo, P. K. Kimani & D. M. Marikah · European Journal of Medicinal Plants · 2016

In Kenya, 22 million people are at risk of malaria, 70% of them are in rural areas, and most of these people use traditional plant-based medicines to treat malaria. The use of natural product-derived drugs and drugs from other sources in combating malaria has however been faced w...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/EJMP/2016/26649