Research Seminar of Prof. Rodney S. Ruoff from Ulsan National Institute of Science & Technology (UNIST)
Lecture Time: 15:00 on 21st November, 2016
Lecture Room: C501 of Science and Innovation Building
Lecture Title: Carbon Materials for the Future
Prof. Rodney S. Ruoff
Director, Center for Multidimensional Carbon Materials (CMCM)(an Institute for Basic Science (IBS) Center on the UNIST Campus)
UNIST Distinguished Professor
Department of Chemistry and School of Materials Science
Ulsan National Institute of Science & Technology (UNIST)
Ulsan 689-798, Republic of Korea
http://cmcm.ibs.re.kr/html/cmcm_en/
Email: ruofflab@gmail.com
Abstract
Abstract: Several types of new carbons and related materials that appear to "on the horizon" will be presented. These include 'negative curvature carbons', 'diamane' and related ultrathin sp3-bonded carbon films/foils, sp3-rich carbon materials, new routes to making diamond, and some others. We have invented a method to convert polycrystalline metal foils to single crystal metal foils, and this is a part of our strategy to attempt to achieve diamane, as well as large area single crystal graphene and h-BN.
Of possible interest:
1. (a) Lu XK, Yu MF, Huang H, and Ruoff RS, Tailoring graphite with the goal of achieving single sheets, Nanotechnology, 10, 269-272 (1999). (b) Lu XK, Huang H, Nemchuk N, and Ruoff RS, Patterning of highly oriented pyrolytic graphite by oxygen plasma etching, Applied Physics Letters, 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 by Activation 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-bonded Carbon Films on Metal Surfaces Density. Scientific Reports (2013), DOI: 10.1038/srep03276.
4. Ruoff, Rodney S. Personal perspectives on graphene: New graphene-related materials on the horizon. MRS Bulletin, 37, 1314-1318 (2012).
Biography
Rodney S. Ruoff, UNIST Distinguished Professor, Department of Chemistry and the School of Materials Science and Engineering, is director of the Center for Multidimensional Carbon Materials (CMCM), an IBS Center located at the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) campus. Prior to joining UNIST he was the Cockrell Family Regents Endowed Chair Professor at the University of Texas at Austin from September, 2007. He earned his Ph.D. in Chemical Physics from the University of Illinois-Urbana in 1988, and he was a Fulbright Fellow in 1988-89 at the Max Planck Institute fur Strömungsforschung in Göttingen, Germany. He was at Northwestern University from January 2000 to August 2007, where he was the John Evans Professor of Nanoengineering and director of NU's Biologically Inspired Materials Institute. He has co-authored about 450 peer-reviewed publications related to chemistry, physics, materials science, mechanics, and biomedical science, and is a Fellow of the Materials Research Society, the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Royal Society of Chemistry. He is the recipient of the 2014 Turnbull Prize from the MRS and the SGL Skakel Award from the American Carbon Society in 2016. For further background on some of his research see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_S._Ruoff .
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