NSF REU at K-State: Interactions of Matter, Light and Learning
The K-State REU program offers summer fellowships to do world-class research in our friendly physics department in the scenic Flinthills. We are funded by the National Science Foundation.
Soft Condensed Matter and Biophysics
Synthesis and Characterization of Graphene Dispersion (Experiment)
Email: anepal@phys.ksu.edu
Hydrocarbon detonation produced graphene is not dispersible into water. Recently we have discovered an aid that helps to disperse graphene into water. We want to perform a systematic study to determine the minimum quantity of this aid to make a stable dispersion of graphene into DI water. After synthesizing the dispersion of graphene, we will study the stability of the dispersion by measuring the absorbance spectra of the dispersion by UV vis spectrometer.
For this work, we make pristine graphene in detonation lab at High Bay. We do wet chemistry in CW 315 and use UV vis in CW 318.