Business LSU faculty score a patent for managing oil spills with nanoparticles By Dillon Lowe - February 2, 2024 The Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010. (Wikimedia Commons) FacebookXLinkedinEmailPrint Bhuvnesh Bharti, an LSU chemical engineering associate professor, and Jin Gyun Lee, his former graduate student, have been issued a patent for the oil spill management technology they developed to… Already an INSIDER? Sign in.