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:

• Research related to energy and the environment
• Novel carbon materials (graphene, nanotubes, others)
• Synthesis and properties of nanostructures
• Fabrication and properties of nanocomposites
• Nanomanipulation and nanorobotics
• Instrument development and technology transition
• New tools and methods for the biomedical sciences

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