Department of Physics

Arjun Nepal

Arjun NepalResearch Associate Professor
316 Cardwell Hall
(785) 532-1642
anepal@phys.ksu.edu
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Ph.D. Kansas State University, 2015

Research Area

Condensed Matter Physics

  • Mass-production of graphene, graphene oxide and graphene/metal composites via detonation technique
  • Study of the chemical and physical parameters of detonation built in situ
  • Application of graphene in batteries, capacitors, sensors and photocatalytic water splitting

  • Other areas of interest include graphene enhanced concrete, polymers and lubricant oils

Recent Selected Publications

  1. Anand P. S. Gaur, Wenjun Xiang, Arjun Nepal, Justin P. Wright, Pingping Chen, Thiba Nagaraja,Shusil Sigdel, Brice LaCroix, Christopher M. Sorensen, and Suprem R. Das; Graphene Aerosol Gel Ink for Printing Micro-Supercapacitors; published on June 11, 2021 in ACS EM,
  2. A. Nepal, G. Chiu, J. Xie, G. P. Singh, N. Ploscariu, S. Klankowski, T. Sung, J. Li, B. N. Flanders, K. L. Hohn, and C. M. Sorensen, Highly Oxidized Graphene Nanosheets via the Oxidization of Detonation Carbon, published online on 10th May 2015, Appl. Phys. A.
  3. G. P. Singh, K. M. Shrestha, A. Nepal, K. J. Klabunde and C. M. Sorensen, Graphene supported plasmonic photocatalyst for Hydrogen evolution in Photocatalytic water splitting, Nanotechnology 25 (2014) 265701.
  4. A. Nepal, G. P. Singh, B. N. Flanders and C. M. Sorensen, One-step synthesis of graphene via catalyst-free gas-phase hydrocarbon detonation, Nanotechnology 24 (2013) 245602.

This work was highlighted in news of Nature India as “Green graphene”, published online, 20 June 2013.

Patent

  • S. Patent No. 9,440,857: C. Sorensen, A. Nepal and G. P. Singh, “PROCESS FOR HIGH-YIELD PRODUCTION OF GRAPHENE VIA DETONATION OF CARBON-CONTAINING MATERIALS", issued on September 13, 2016. This patent has been licensed and a company called HydroGraph (previously Carbon 2D) has been formed.
  • WO 2020/257229 A2 published on December 24, 2020 for PCT Patent Application No. : PCT/US2020/038055 (Cross reference: Provisional Patent Application serial No: 62/862,251 filed on June 17, 2019, Serial No. 62/935,438, filed November 14, 2019, and Serial No. 63/016,637, filed April 28, 2020): Bossmann, C. Sorensen, J. Covarrubias, M. Kalubowilage and A. Nepal, “IMPROVED GRAPHENE TO GRAPHENE/GRAPHENE OXIDE CORE/SHELL PARTICULATES AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING THE SAME”, filed June 17, 2020
  • Provisional Patent Application No.: 63/039,087: S. Corkill, C.M. Sorensen, J. Wright, Nepal and S. Bossmann, “Device and Process for Mass Production of Particulate Materials”, filed on June 15, 2020
  • U.S. Provisional Patent Application No.: 63/161,625 Christopher M. Sorensen, Stefan H. Bossmann, Justin Wright, Shusil Sigdel, Jose Covarrubias, Arjun Nepal, Harold Charles Davidson, filed on March 16, 2021