Presenter: Prof. Rodney S. Ruoff

Centerfor Multidimensional Carbon Materials (CMCM),

UlsanNational Institute of Science & Technology (UNIST) ,Republic of Korea

Topic: Introduction to theCMCM and Carbon Materials for the Future

Time: 09:30AM, Mar.14^th (Monday)

Location: Conference Room B, BLDG909

Abstract

Iappreciate the opportunity to introduce the Center for MultidimensionalCarbon Materials (CMCM), an Institute of Basic Science (IBS) Centerlocated at the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST)campus, and thus to briefly discuss the IBS and UNIST as well. I then offer apersonal perspective of several types of new carbons and related materials thatmight be made in the future. These include ‘negative curvaturecarbons’, ‘diamane’ and related ultrathin sp³-bonded carbon films/foils, sp²/sp³-hybridmaterials, new routes to making diamond, and some others. I will also discusssome of our discoveries related to graphene including in the context of newresearch at CMCM on carbon and related systems.

Ofpossible interest:

1.(a) Lu XK, Yu MF, Huang H, and Ruoff RS, Tailoring graphite with thegoal of achieving single sheets,Nanotechnology, 10, 269-272 (1999).  (b) Lu XK,Huang H, Nemchuk N, and Ruoff RS, Patterning of highly orientedpyrolytic graphite by oxygen plasma etching, Applied PhysicsLetters, 75, 193-195(1999).

2.Zhu, Yanwu; Murali, Shanthi; Stoller, Meryl D.; Ganesh, K. J.; Cai, Weiwei;Ferreira, Paulo J.; Pirkle, Adam; Wallace, Robert M.; Cychosz, Katie A.;Thommes, Matthias; Su, Dong; Stach, Eric A.; Ruoff, Rodney S. Carbon-Based Supercapacitors Produced byActivation of Graphene. Science 332, 1537-1541 (2011).

3. Odkhuu,Dorj; Shin, Dongbin; Ruoff, Rodney S.; Park, Noejung; Conversion of Multilayer Graphene Into Continuous Ultrathin sp³-bondedCarbon Films on Metal Surfaces Density. ScientificReports (2013),DOI:10.1038/srep03276.

4.Ruoff, Rodney S. Personal perspectives on graphene: Newgraphene-related materials on the horizon.MRSBulletin, 37, 1314-1318 (2012).

Biography

Rodney S. Ruoff, UNIST Distinguished Professor,Department of Chemistry and the School of Materials Science and Engineering, isdirector of the Centerfor Multidimensional Carbon Materials (CMCM), an IBS Center located at the Ulsan NationalInstitute of Science and Technology (UNIST) campus. Prior to joining UNIST hewas the Cockrell Family Regents Endowed Chair Professor at the University ofTexas at Austin from September, 2007. He earned his Ph.D. in Chemical Physicsfrom the University of Illinois-Urbana in 1988, and he was a Fulbright Fellowin 1988-89 at the Max Planck Institute für Strömungsforschung in Göttingen,Germany. He was at Northwestern University from January 2000 to August 2007, wherehe was the John Evans Professor of Nanoengineering and director of NU’s Biologically Inspired Materials Institute.He has co-authored about 440 peer-reviewed publications related to chemistry,physics, materials science, mechanics, and biomedical science, and is a Fellowof the Materials Research Society, the American Physical Society, and the AmericanAssociation for the Advancement of Science. He is the recipient of the 2014Turnbull Prize from the MRS. For further background on some of his researchsee:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_S._Ruoff .