Rodney S. Ruoff Awarded 2014
David Turnbull Lectureship October
24th, 2014 IBS Director of Center for Multidimensional Carbon
Materials honored for pioneering research related to carbon materials The Materials Research Society’s
(MRS) David Turnbull Lectureship Award recognizes the career of a scientist who
has made outstanding contributions to understanding materials phenomena and
properties through research, writing, and lecturing, as exemplified by the late
David Turnbull of Harvard University. This year's award will honor Rodney S.
Ruoff, Director of the Center for Multidimensional Carbon Materials (CMCM) at
the Institute for Basic Science (IBS), and Distinguished Professor at the Ulsan
National Institute of Science & Technology (UNIST) for "pioneering discoveries
related to carbon materials and their innovative preparation, characterization,
and mechanics." The award will be presented at the 2014 MRS Fall Meeting
Awards Ceremony in Boston on Wednesday, December 3, and Ruoff will deliver the
David Turnbull Lecture on December 4. Devoting his career to research in
carbon-based nanostructures, Ruoff has made numerous fundamental breakthroughs
in the chemistry and physics of carbon materials and has shaped the research
and practical applications of these materials as they are known today. His
contributions created the chemical foundation of virtually all of the
processing schemes involving these materials—from dispersions to devices and
composites. His early work included extensive studies of fullerenes, and more
recently, he has gained an international reputation for his work on graphenes.
His extensive studies of the growth of graphene by chemical vapor deposition
and graphene oxide in composites and for use in electrical energy storage
initiated a large number of similar research studies worldwide. “I think that the Turnbull prize has
been, in part, awarded to me for work that I've done extending back to the
early 1990’s." said Ruoff. "I have worked on a variety of carbon
materials, like Carbon-60 (fullerenes), carbon nanotubes, carbon nanoparticles
that encapsulated and protected metal nanocrystals, diamond—but in unusual
forms like diamond nanorods—and some other nanostructures including Boron and
metal boride nanotubes and nanoribbons, (the element Boron is adjacent to the
element Carbon in the periodic table), and so on. Since 1999, we started
publishing on graphene, and I have been fortunate to pioneer many areas of
graphene science.” Ruoff received his BS degree in
chemistry from The University of Texas at Austin (1981) and his PhD degree in
chemical physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1988).
After completing his studies, he was awarded a Fulbright Postdoctoral
Fellowship at the Max Planck Institut für Strömungsforschung, followed by a
postdoctoral fellowship at IBM-Watson Research Laboratory. In 1991, Ruoff
joined the Molecular Physics Laboratory at SRI International as a research
staff scientist. He was appointed associate professor of physics at Washington
University, Missouri, in 1997, and in 2000, he joined the Department of
Mechanical Engineering at Northwestern University, as full professor, where he
also directed the Biologically Inspired Materials Institute and was the John
Evans Professor of Engineering. From 2007 to 2013, Ruoff served as Cockrell
Family Regents Chair at The University of Texas at Austin. He is a Fellow of
the Materials Research Society, the American Physical Society, and the American
Association for the Advancement of Science. Ruoff received the Lee Hsun Lecture
Award in 2009, and was Distinguished Chair Visiting Professor (2005–2007) at
the Sungkyunkwan University Advanced Institute of NanoTechnology. “I appreciated being nominated [for
the award] and am honored to have been chosen,” Ruoff said. “This is also
recognition of the many students and postdocs who have worked in my group, as
well as colleagues that I have been fortunate to collaborate with.” Notes
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This press release is
based on Materials Research Society’s official press release. For the full text
of the release, please see the below: October 20, 2014 “Rodney
S. Ruoff Awarded 2014 David Turnbull Lectureship” http://www.mrs.org/press-release-ruoff-tunbull/
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For further
information about Director Ryong Ryoo’s profile, please visit http://cmcm.ibs.re.kr/html/cmcm_en/members/members_0201.html
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To read
more story of Prof. Rodney S. Ruoff, please read the below interview:
http://www.unist.ac.kr/board/view.sko?boardId=Notice&boardSid=5037&menuCd=AB07002001000&contentsSid=8297&dataSid=4018980
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For further
information or to request media assistance, please contact: Ms. Sohn Che Rin,
IBS Center for Multidimensional Carbon Materials
(+82-52-217-5753; csohn@ibs.re.kr
or Mr. Han Bin Oh, Overseas Public Relations Officer, IBS Public Relations Team
(+82-42-878-8182; ohanvin@ibs.re.kr)
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