Dr. Samuel Tetteh is a Doctor of Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry, University of Cape Coast, Ghana. He holds a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Cape Coast. He is a teacher and researcher with research interests in clay chemistry, adsorption of environmental pollutants using purified and activated clay, crystallographic databases, and synthesis and Density Functional Theoretical (DFT) studies of transition metal complexes.
Dr. Samuel Tetteh is a beneficiary of the Frank H. Allen International Research and Education (FAIRE) programme of the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Center (CCDC) which supports structural chemistry research and education in developing countries through the use of the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD). He has great interest in using molecular models to teach structural chemistry which was hitherto difficult for students of chemistry to visualize. He also employs the CSD in his research involving the study of structural and bonding properties of transition metal complexes. He has synthesized and characterized a number of platinum group metal complexes with promising in vitro anticancer activities (IC50 values) against U937 and HL60 cancer cell lines.
He has extracted and purified muscovite clay using conventional methods and characterized this mineral for use in the adsorption of environmental pollutants such as phenols, dyes and heavy metals from aqueous media. He is also working on the hydrothermal synthesis of hydroxyapatite using oyster shells as the calcium source.
He is a member of the Ghana Chemical Society, Pan African Chemistry Network and an affiliate member of the American Chemical Society. He is married with three children.