Acknowledgement

Daniel Dodoo would like to acknowledge the scholarship awarded to him by the European Agency Scholarships under the program Erasmus Mundus Chemical Nanoengineering. The authors would like to acknowledge Francis Ndego, Felix Brown, and all personnel of the Ghana Nut Company limited at Techiman (Ghana) for assisting in the laboratory analysis. Daniel Dodoo gratefully acknowledges the help of Prof. David Kwesi Dodoo (University of Cape Coast, Ghana), Prof. Szczepan Roszak (Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland), and Nathan Campbell (Aix-Marseille University, France) for their linguistic and technical assistance.