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We synthesize carbon and related materials and investigate their chemical, physical, mechanical, and electronic properties. A central goal is to understand synthesis, transformation, and growth pathways through kinetic and thermodynamic analysis, increasingly supported by first-principles calculations, molecular simulation, and data-driven methods. Our research integrates materials chemistry, inorganic and organic synthesis, electrochemistry, surface science, solid mechanics, and condensed-matter physics.
We devise experimental methods and construct specialized equipment to realize materials and structures that are otherwise difficult to produce. These include patterned and porous carbons, graphene and other two-dimensional materials, covalent organic frameworks and metal-organic frameworks, chemically functionalized graphene and hexagonal boron nitride, ultrathin diamond, unusual carbon-rich polymers, carbon composites, and diamond-like structures. Our work spans carbon materials of different dimensionalities, from molecular and nanoscale structures to macroscopic films, fibers, laminates, and bulk crystals.
We also seek fundamentally new routes to established materials, including graphene, graphite, diamond, and related boron–carbon–nitrogen solids. Particular emphasis is placed on controlling nucleation, crystal growth, defects, interfaces, composition, and dimensionality, and on producing large, high-quality single crystals and architectures that have not previously been accessible.

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Ph.D. Chemical Physics, University of Illinois-Urbana (1988)
B.S. Chemistry, University of Texas-Austin, High Honors (1981)

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Distinguished Professor & Director of Center for Multidimensional Carbon Materials, IBS (2014~Present)
Cockrell Family Regents Chair, University of Texas at Austin (2007~2013)
John Evans Professor of Nanoengineering, Northwestern University (2003~2007)
Full Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University (2000~2007)

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Dissolving diamond: kinetics of the dissolution of (100) and (110) single crystals in nickel and cobalt films., Yunqing Li, Yongchul Kim, Pavel V. Bakharev, Won Kyung Seong, Chohee Hyun, Dulce C. Camacho-Mojica, Liyuan Zhang, Benjamin V. Cunning, Tae Joo Shin, Geunsik Lee, and Rodney S. Ruoff, Chemistry of Materials, 34, 6, 2599–2611 (2022)
Proton affinity and gas phase basicity of diamandoid molecules: diamantane to C131H116., Dulce Carolina Camacho-Mojica, Jong-Kwon Ha, Seung Kyu Min, Robert Vianello, and Rodney S. Ruoff, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 24, 3470–3477 (2022)
Single crystal, large-area, fold-free monolayer graphene., Meihui Wang, Ming Huang, Da Luo, Yunqing Li, Myeonggi Choe, Wonkyung Seong, Sunghwan Jin, Shahana Chatterjee, Youngwoo Kwon, Zonghoon Lee, and Rodney S. Ruoff, Nature, 596, 519–524 (2021)
A general approach to composites containing nonmetallic fillers and liquid gallium., Chunhui Wang, Yan Gong, Le Quan, Onur Buyukcakir, Hanyang Zhang, Ming Huang, Meihui Wang, Benjamin V. Cunning, and Rodney S. Ruoff, Science Advances, 7(1), eabe3767 (2021)
Chemically induced transformation of chemical vapor deposition-grown bilayer graphene into fluorinated single-layer diamond., Pavel V. Bakharev, Ming Huang, Manav Saxena, Suk Woo Lee, Se Hun Joo, Sung O Park, Jichen Dong, Dulce C. Camacho-Mojica, Sunghwan Jin, Youngwoo Kwon, Mandakini Biswal, Feng Ding, Sang Kyu Kwak, Zonghoon Lee, and Rodney S. Ruoff, Nature Nanotechnology, 15(1), 1–8 (2020)
Growth of diamond in liquid metal at 1 atm pressure., Yan Gong, Da Luo, Myeonggi Choe, Yongchul Kim, Babu Ram, Mohammad Zafari, Won Kyung Seong, Pavel Bakharev, Meihui Wang, In Kee Park, Seulyi Lee, Tae Joo Shin, Zonghoon Lee, Geunsik Lee, and Rodney S. Ruoff, Nature, 629, 348–354 (2024)
Electrochemical Functionalization of Graphene-on-Cu(111)., Minhyeok Kim, Yongchul Kim, Geunsik Lee, Rodney S. Ruoff, and Sun Hwa Lee, Advanced Science, 12, e01798 (2025)
Growth Kinetics of Graphene on Cu(111) Foils from Methane, Ethyne, Ethylene, and Ethane., Meihui Wang, Da Luo, Ming Huang, et al., Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 63, e202412131 (2024)
Direct Electrochemical Functionalization of Graphene Grown on Cu(111)., Minhyeok Kim, Yongchul Kim, Geunsik Lee, Sun Hwa Lee, and Rodney S. Ruoff, ACS Nano, 17, 18914–18923 (2023)
Layer-by-Layer Assembly of Graphene–Fullerene Heterostructures., Korlan Duisenova, Madi Arsakay, Sunghwan Kim, Bekbolat Mamyrbekov, Rodney S. Ruoff, and Sun Hwa Lee, Diamond and Related Materials, 167, 113874 (2026)
Study of Evolution of Three-Dimensional Porous Structure in Zeolite-Templated Carbons., Madi Arsakay, Boyuan Shen, Xiao Chen, Hao Xiong, Korlan Duisenova, Alisher Fatkhulloev, Carola Vorndran, Guangwu Yang, Bayrammuhammet Annageldyyev, Sun Hwa Lee, Won Kyung Seong, Matthias Thommes, Fei Wei, and Rodney S. Ruoff, Carbon, 242, 120431 (2025)
Electrochemical Polymerization of Polyhydrocarbons by Reductive Dehalogenation of Chlorinated Methanes., Jae Hong Seo, Rajmohan Rajendiran, Sun Hwa Lee, and Rodney S. Ruoff, Cell Reports Physical Science, 4, 101373 (2023)

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