Dr. Prakash Chandra Lohani is an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Amrit Campus, Tribhuvan University, Nepal. He holds a Ph.D. in Nano Convergence Engineering from Jeonbuk National University, Republic of Korea. His research focuses on advanced nanomaterials for energy storage and conversion technologies, including supercapacitors, metal–air batteries, water electrolysis, and fuel cells. Dr. Lohani has strong expertise in electrochemical testing, spectroscopic and microscopic characterization, nanomaterials synthesis, and device fabrication.

He has published in top-tier international journals such as Advanced Energy Materials, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Chemical Engineering Journal, and Advanced Energy Materials, journals of Materials Science A, etc. Dr. Lohani has supervised graduate thesis research, secured competitive national and international grants, and contributed to multiple industry-collaborative research projects in Korea and Nepal.

Dr. Lohani currently serves as Co-Principal Investigator on two major funded projects, including the World Bank & Parley “Waste to Wealth: Plastic-Free Himalayan Rivers to Advanced Functional Materials” initiative and an AOARD-funded research project on rare-earth-doped nanostructured carbon materials. He was awarded the Research Dream Award from Jeonbuk National University in 2023 in recognition of his research excellence.

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1. Prakash Chandra Lohani, Arjun Prasad Tiwari, Kisan Chhetri, Alagan Muthurasu, Bipeen Dahal, Su-Hyeong Chae, Tae Hoon Ko, Jun Youb Lee, Yong Sik Chung & Hak Yong Kim, Polypyrrole nanotunnels with luminal and abluminal layered double hydroxide nanosheets grown on a carbon cloth for energy storage applications, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 14, 20, 23285-23296, 2022 (Impact Factor: 9.5)
2. Prakash Chandra Lohani, Arjun Prasad Tiwari, Alagan Muthurasu, Ishwor Pathak, Milan Babu Poudel, Kisan Chhetri, Bipeen Dahal, Debendra Acharya, Tae Hoon Ko, Hak Yong Kim, Phytic acid empowered two nanos “Polypyrrole tunnels and transition Metal-(Oxy) hydroxide Sheets” in a single platform for unmitigated redox water splitting, Chemical Engineering Journal, 463, 142280, 2023 (Impact Factor: 15.1)
3. Kisan Chhetri, Taewoo Kim, Debendra Acharya, Alagan Muthurasu, Bipeen Dahal, Roshan Mangal Bhattarai, Prakash Chandra Lohani, Ishwor Pathak, Seongmin Ji, Tae Hoon Ko & Hak Yong Kim Hollow carbon nanofibers with inside-outside decoration of bi-metallic MOF derived Ni-Fe phosphides as electrode materials for asymmetric supercapacitors, Chemical Engineering Journal, 450, 138363, 2022 (Impact Factor: 15.1)
4. Debendra Acharya, Ishwor Pathak, Bipeen Dahal, Prakash Chandra Lohani, Roshan Mangal Bhattarai, Alagan Muthurasu, Taewoo Kim, Tae Hoon Ko, Kisan Chhetri, & Hak Yong Kim, Immoderate nanoarchitectures of bimetallic MOF derived Ni–Fe–O/NPC on porous carbon nanofibers as freestanding electrode for asymmetric supercapacitors, Carbon 201, 12-23, 2022, (Impact Factor: 10.9)
5. Milan Babu Poudel, Allison A Kim, Prakash Chandra Lohani, Dong Jin Yoo & Han Joo Kim, Assembling zinc cobalt hydroxide/ternary sulfides heterostructure and iron oxide nanorods on three-dimensional hollow porous carbon nanofiber as high energy density hybrid supercapacitor, Journal of Energy Storage, 60, 106713 2023 (Impact Factor: 10.3)
6. Taewoo Kim, Subhangi Subedi, Bipeen Dahal, Kisan Chhetri, Tanka Mukhiya, Alagan Muthurasu, Jagadis Gautam, Prakash Chandra Lohani, Debendra Acharya, Ishwor Pathak, Su‐Hyeong Chae, Tae Hoon Ko & Hak Yong Kim, Homogeneous Elongation of N‐Doped CNTs over Nano‐Fibrillated Hollow‐Carbon‐Nanofiber: Mass and Charge Balance in Asymmetric Supercapacitors Is No Longer Problematic, Advanced Science, 9 20 2200650, 2023 (Impact Factor: 15.1)
7. Alagan Muthurasu, Su-Hyeong Chae, Tae Hoon Ko, Prakash Chandra Lohani & Hak Yong Kim, Highly ordered nanoarrays catalysts embedded in carbon nanotubes as highly efficient and robust air electrode for flexible solid-state rechargeable zinc-air batteries, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 616, 679-690, 2022 (Impact Factor: 9.9)
8. Alagan Muthurasu, Prabhakaran Sampath, Tae Hoon Ko, Prakash Chandra Lohani, Ishwor Pathak, Debendra Acharya, Kisan Chhetri, Do Hwan Kim, Hak Yong Kim, Partial selenium surface modulation of metal organic framework assisted cobalt sulfide hollow spheres for high performance bifunctional oxygen electrocatalysis and rechargeable zinc-air batteries, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 330. 122523, 2023 (Impact Factor: 22.1)
9. Milan Babu Poudel, Prakash Chandra Lohani & Allison A Kim, Synthesis of silver nanoparticles decorated tungsten oxide nanorods as high-performance supercapacitor electrode, Chemical Physics Letters, 804, 139884 2022 (Impact Factor: 2.8)
10. Milan Babu Poudel, Prakash Chandra Lohani, Debendra Acharya, Dharma Raj Kandel, Allison A Kim, & Dong Jin Yoo, MOF derived hierarchical ZnNiCo-LDH on vapor solid phase grown CuxO nanowire array as high energy density asymmetric supercapacitors, Journal of Energy Storage, 72, 108220 2023 (Impact Factor: 10.3)
11. Gunendra Prasad Ojha, Bishweshwar Pant, Jiwan Acharya, Prakash Chandra Lohani, & Mira Park, Solvothermal-localized selenylation transformation of cobalt nickel MOFs templated heterointerfaces enriched monoclinic Co₃Se₄/CoNi₂Se₄@activated knitted carbon cloth for flexible and bi-axial stretchable supercapacitors, Chemical Engineering Journal, 464, 142621, 2023 (Impact Factor: 15.1)
12.  Ishwor Pathak, Debendra Acharya, Kisan Chhetri, Prakash Chandra Lohani, Subhangi Subedi, Alagan Muthurasu, Taewoo Kim, Tae Hoon Ko, Bipeen Dahal & Hak Yong Kim, Ti3C2Tx MXene embedded metal–organic framework-based porous electrospun carbon nanofibers as a freestanding electrode for supercapacitors, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 11, 10, 5001-5014, 2023 (Impact Factor: 11.9)
13.  Ishwor Pathak, Debendra Acharya, Kisan Chhetri, Prakash Chandra Lohani, Tae Hoon Ko, Alagan Muthurasu, Subhangi Subedi, Taewoo Kim, Syafiqah Saidin, Bipeen Dahal & Hak Yong Kim, Ti3C2Tx MXene integrated hollow carbon nanofibers with polypyrrole layers for MOF-derived freestanding electrodes of flexible asymmetric supercapacitors,  Chemical Engineering Journal, 459, 143388, 2023 (Impact Factor: 15.1)
14. Yagya Raj Rosyara, Alagan Muthurasu, Kisan Chhetri, Ishwor Pathak, Tae Hoon Ko, Prakash Chandra Lohani, Debendra Acharya, Taewoo Kim, Daewoo Lee, Hak Yong Kim, Highly Porous Metal–Organic Framework Entrapped by Cobalt Telluride–Manganese Telluride as an Efficient Bifunctional Electrocatalyst, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2024, 16, 8, 10238–10250 (Impact Factor: 9.5)
15. Milan Babu Poudel, Dharma Raj Kandel, Prakash Chandra Lohani, Ae Rhan Kim, Hyo Bin Kwak, Dong Jin Yoo, Enhanced electrochemical performance of dendritic Fe2O3 nanowires on hollow carbon nanofibers with manganese and phosphorus co-doping for solid-state symmetric supercapacitors, Journal of Power Sources, 661,238447 (Impact Factor: 7.9)
16. Kisan Chhetri, Debendra Acharya, Rohan Sudhir Pawale, Keon-Ho Kong, Ishwor Pathak, Yagya Raj Rosyara, Roshan Mangal Bhattrai, Prakash Chandra Lohani, Taewoo Kim, Nam Hoon Kim, Joong Hee Lee, Byoung-Suhk Kim, Jonas Hereijgers, Chan-Hwa Chung, Hyunjin Cho, Tae Hoon Ko, Hak Yong Kim, Hemispherical mesoporous hollow carbon nanobowls as a separator-cum-cathode materials for enhanced sulfur redox kinetics and polysulfide regulation in Lithium-sulfur batteries Composites Part B: Engineering, 310, 113159 (Impact Factor: 14.2)
17. Arjun Prasad Tiwari, Tanka Mukhiya, Alagan Muthurasu, Kisan Chhetri, Minju Lee, Bipeen Dahal, Prakash Chandra Lohani & Hak-Yong Kim, Electrochem, 2, 236-250 2021
18. Hyoju Kim, Prakash Chandra Lohani, Deval Prasad Bhattarai, Arjun Prasad Tiwari & Hak Yong Kim, Phytic Acid-Enhanced Electrospun PCL-Polypyrrole Nanofibrous Mat: Preparation, Characterization, and Mechanism, Macromolecular Research, 30, 11791-798 (Impact Factor: 2.4)
19. Bishnu Datt Pant, Deepa Neupane, Dasu Ram Paudel, Prakash Chandra Lohani, Surendra Kumar Gautam, Megh Raj Pokhrel, Bhoj Raj Poudel, Efficient biosorption of hexavalent chromium from water by modified arecanut leaf sheath, Heliyon, 8, 4 2023 (Impact Factor: 4)
20. N Bashyal, S Aryal, R Rai, PC Lohani, SK Gautam, MR Pokhrel, BR Poudel, Effective Biosorption of Phosphate from Water Using Fe (III)-Loaded Pomegranate Peel, Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Quarterly, 37, 2, 67-77, 2023 (Impact Factor: 1.5)