Carbon materials pioneer joins Mechanical Engineering Department

Nanotechnology expert and physical chemist Rodney Ruoff will be joining the faculty this fall of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. Ruoff, whose most recent research on carbon-based materials will be published July 26 in Nature, will hold the Cockrell Family Regents Chair in Engineering No. 7. He conducts research on novel materials and devices in which the fields of chemistry, physics, biology, and engineering play a considerable role.

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Photo by Akiko Ruoff, 7/2007
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Photo at left: Dr. Rodney Ruoff, a leader in understanding the mechanical and chemical properties of carbon structures, will join the university's Mechanical Engineering Department in the fall of 2007.