Ruoff, Rodney S

Distinguished Professor

Center for Multidimensional Carbon Materials

Lab: Bldg. 101 Rm 403
Office: Bldg. 101 Rm 411
E-mail: ruofflab@gmail.com ruoff@unist.ac.kr
Phone: +82-52-217-2924

Ruoff, Rodney S

Distinguished Professor

Center for Multidimensional Carbon Materials

E-mail: ruofflab@gmail.com ruoff@unist.ac.kr
Lab: Bldg. 101 Rm 403
Office: Bldg. 101 Rm 411
Phone: +82-52-217-2924
Research Areas
Chemical reaction mechanisms, Reaction pathways, and kinetics and thermodynamics of chemical reactions Synthesis, and physical and chemical properties of new carbon and related materials
Research Summary

We synthesize and study the chemical and physical properties of carbon and related materials. We aim to understand the reaction pathway in syntheses and thus the kinetics and thermodynamics. We have a growing interest in computational chemistry and its use to explore promising directions for new chemistry. We have efforts underway in materials chemistry, organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, electrochemistry, and physical chemistry. Some of our experimental syntheses are accomplished through unique ‘home-built’ systems. We study the growth of new materials such as (among others) periodic porous carbons, 2D MOFs and COFs, graphene and and hBN films and also functionalizing them with various functional groups, diamane films, polymers with unusual chemical composition, diamondoids, and others. We also discover new synthetic approaches to existing materials such as graphite and diamond: can we grow them in new ways and can we grow large size single crystals of graphite and diamond that have not yet been reported?

Education

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

Career

Distinguished Professor, Department of Chemistry, UNIST (Nov’13-Present)
Director of Center for Multidimensional Carbon Materials, IBS (Nov’ 13-Present)
Cockrell Family Regents Chair, University of Texas at Austin (Sept’ 07-Dec 13)
John Evans Professor of Nanoengineering, Northwestern University (2003 – Aug’ 2007)
Full Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University (2000 – 2007)
Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Washington University (1997 – 2000)
Research Staff Scientist, Molecular Physics Laboratory, SRI International (1991 – 1996)
Postdoctoral Fellow, IBM-Watson Research Laboratory (1990 – 1991)
Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institut fuer Stroemungsforschung (1989 – 1990)

Selected Publications
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, Rodney 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)
Chemically Induced Transformation of Chemical Vapour 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, Rodney S. Ruoff.
Nature Nanotechnology, 15(1), 1-8 (2020)
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, Rodney S. Ruoff
Science Advances, 7(1): eabe3767 (2021)
Research Highlights
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 (2024)
Fei Pan, Kun Ni, Tao Xu, Huaican Chen, Yusong Wang, Ke Gong, Cai Liu, Xin Li, Miao-Ling Lin, Shengyuan Li, Xia Wang, Wensheng Yan, Wen Yin, Ping-Heng Tan, Litao Sun, Dapeng Yu, Rodney S. Ruoff* & Yanwu Zhu*
Nature (2023)