Two doctoral students, Kabeer Jasuja and Nihar Mohanty of chemical engineering department, Kansas State University, have received international acknowledgment for their research work with graphene.
Jasuja and Mohanty will attend the Graphene Fundamental and Applications session, conducted by global leaders in carbon science and technology.
The international session will provide lectures to students on graphene, a newly invented form of carbon of one atom thickness. The students will design a graphene related research project and the best team’s project will be taken up for research in real time.
Jasuja and Mohanty carried on their doctoral research under the guidance of Vikas Berry, an assistant professor of chemical engineering. They performed fundamental and applied research in several aspects such as molecular springs, bionanotechnology, graphenic materials, molecular electromechanics, ultrathin and boron nitride sheets.
Jasuja concentrated on areas such as boron-nitride-sheet protonation, molecular electronics, electro-mechanics of molecules, and graphene functionalization while Mohanty worked in identifying the structural and chemical properties of graphene for sensing and electronics, highlighting on graphene biosensors, graphene-wrappers for bacterial cell imaging, and graphene nanostructures production such as nanoribbons and quantum dots for thin film transistors and optoelectronics. Both of them collaborated with engineering, biology and other area researchers of K-State.
Jasuja said that most of the research related to graphene is performed through collaboration. Jasuja and Mohanty together with Berry’s research team published a paper in the Nano Letters journal. This research team was the first group to use graphene for chemical sensing and biosensing. Berry and Mohanty also have a patent pending on a novel large-scale manufacturing strategy for graphenic nanostructures.
Source: www.k-state.edu