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Rodney S. Ruoff

Dr. Ruoff joined UT Austin in September, 2007, as an endowed chair in the Cockrell School of Engineering. He earned his Ph.D in Chemical Physics from the University of Illinois-Urbana in1988, and was a Fulbright Fellow in 1988-89 with the Max Planck Institute fuer Stroemungsforschung in Goettingen, Germany. Prior to joining UT-Austin, he was the John Evans Professor of Nanoengineering and a Full Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Northwestern University and also the director of the Northwestern University Biologically Inspired Materials Institute from 2002-2007, a NASA URETI Institute also linked to Princeton University, UC-Santa Barbara, the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and to a team of researchers working primarily at the NASA Langley Research Center.

Some major research interests include:

  • Global environment and energy
  • Synthesis and properties of materials including nanostructures
  • Synthesis and properties of novel carbon materials (graphene, nanotubes)
  • Fabrication and properties of nanocomposites
  • Nanomanipulation and nanorobotics
  • Instrument development; New tools and methods for the biomedical sciences
  • Technology transition, entrepreneurial activity (Co-found of Graphene Energy, Inc.; Founder of Nanode, Inc.)

Dr. Ruoff is editor of the Journal of Nanoengineering and Nanosystems, an Editorial Board Member for Composites, Science, and Technology, a Managing Editor and Editorial Board Member of NANO, on the editorial advisory board of Carbon, and is an Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Nanoengineering and Nanosystems. In addition he has been a Distinguished Chair Visiting Professor at Sung Kyun Kwan University's Advanced Institute of NanoTechnology (SAINT) since 2005.

Selected Publications

  1. M. F. Yu, O. Lourie, M. J. Dyer, K. Moloni, T. F. Kelly and R. S. Ruoff, "Strength and breaking mechanism of multiwalled carbon nanotubes under tensile load", Science, Vol. 287, (2000), 287, pp. 637-640
  2. M. F. Yu, O. Lourie, M. J. Dyer, K. Moloni, T. F. Kelly and R. S. Ruoff, "Strength and breaking mechanism of multiwalled carbon nanotubes under tensile load", Science, Vol. 287, (2000), 287, pp. 637-640
  3. Li, X. S.; Cai, W. W.; An, J. H.; Kim, S.; Nah, J.; Yang, D. X.; Piner, R. D.; Velamakanni, A.; Jung, I.; Tutuc, E.; Banerjee, S. K.; Colombo, L.; Ruoff, R. S., "Large-area synthesis of high-quality and uniform graphene films on copper foils", Science, Vol. 324, (2009), pp. 1312-1314
  4. Sasha Stankovich, Dmitriy A. Dikin, Geoffrey H. B. Dommett, Kevin M. Kohlhaas, Eric J. Zimney, Eric A. Stach, Richard D. Piner, SonBinh T. Nguyen and Rodney S. Ruoff, "Graphene-based composite materials", Nature, Vol. 42, (2006), 42, pp. 282-285
  5. Dmitriy A. Dikin, Sasha Stankovich, Eric. J. Zimney, Richard D. Piner, Geoffrey H. B. Dommett, Guennadi Evmenenko, SonBinh T. Nguyen & Rodney S. Ruoff, "Preparation and characterization of graphene oxide paper", Nature, (2007), July 26, 2007

Most Recent Publications

  1. Zhu, Yanwu; Murali, Shanthi; Stoller, Meryl D.; Ganesh, K. J.; Cai, Weiwei; Ferreira, Paulo J.; Pirkle, Adam; Wallance, Robert M.; Cychosz, Katie A.; Thommes, Matthias; Su, Dong; Stach, Eric A.; Ruoff, Rodney S., "Carbon-Based Supercapacitors Produced by Activation of Graphene. ," Science , (2011), pp. DOI: 10.1126/science.1200770.
  2. Zhu, Xianjun; Zhu, Yanwu; Murali, Shanthi; Stoller, Meryl D.; Ruoff, Rodney S. , "Reduced graphene oxide/tin oxide composite as an enhanced anode material for lithium ion batteries prepared by homogenous coprecipitation. ," Journal Of Power Sources , Vol. 196, (2011), pp. 6473-6477
  3. Zhu, Xianjun; Zhu, Yanwu; Murali, Shanthi; Stoller, Meryl D.; Ruoff, Rodney S. , "Nanostructured Reduced Graphene Oxide/Fe2O3 Composite As a High-Performance Anode Material for Lithium Ion Batteries ," ACS Nano , (2011), pp. DOI: 10.1021/nn200493r
  4. Yu, Kehan; Bo, Zheng; Lu, Ganhua; Mao, Shun; Cui, Shumao; Zhu, Yanwu; Chen, Xinqi; Ruoff, Rodney S.; Chen, Junhong , "Growth of carbon nanowalls at atmospheric pressure for one-step gas sensor fabrication. ," Nanoscale Research Letters , Vol. 6, (2011), pp. 202
  5. Yanamoto, Go; Shirasu, Keiichi; Hashida, Yoshiyuki; Takagi, Toshiyuki; Suk, Ji Won; An, Jinho; Piner, Richard D.; Ruoff, Rodney S. , "Nanotube fracture during the failure of carbon nanotube/alumina composites," Carbon., Vol. 49, (2011), pp. 3709-3716
  6. Venugopal, Archana; Chan, Jack; Li, Xuesong; Magnuson, Carl W.; Kirk, Wiley P.; Colombo, Luigi; Ruoff, Rodney S.; Vogel, Eric M. , "Effective mobility of single-layer graphene transistors as a function of channel dimensions," Journal Of Applied Physics , Vol. 109, (2011), 104511
  7. Suk, Ji Won; Kitt, Alexander; Magnuson, Carl W.; Hao, Yufeng; Ahmed, Samir; An, Jinho; Swan, Anna K.; Goldberg, Bennett B.; Ruoff, Rodney S. , "Transfer of CVD-Grown Monolayer Graphene onto Arbitrary Substrates," ACS Nano , (2011)
  8. Stoller, Meryl D.; Stoller, Scott A.; Quarles, Neil; Suk, Ji Won; Murali, Shanthi; Zhu, Yanwu; Zhu, Xianjun; Ruoff, Rodney S., "Using Coin Cells for Ultracapacitor Electrode Material Testing. ," Journal Of Applied Electrochemistry , Vol. 41, (), pp. 681-686
  9. Stoller, Meryl D.; Magnuson, Carl W.; Zhu, Yanwu; Murali, Shanthi; Suk, Ji Won; Piner, Richard; Ruoff, Rodney S. , "Interfacial capacitance of single layer graphene. ," Energy And Environmental Science, Vol. published online, (2011), pp. DOI:10.1039/c1e
  10. Sharma, Tushar; Hu, Ye; Stoller, Meryl; Feldman, Marc; Ruoff, Rodney S.; Ferrari, Mauro; Zhang, Xiaojing., "Mesoporous silica as a membrane for ultra-thin implantable direct glucose fuel cells.," Lab On A Chip , Vol. 13, (2011), pp. 2460-2465