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Strano Group Publishes in ACS Nano

October 2010

Ham M.-H. et al. published their results on a P3HT-SWNT heterojunction photovoltaic devices in ACS Nano

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Strano Group Publishes in Nature Materials

September 2010

Han J.-H., Paulus G.L.C. et al. published their results on exciton antennas (solar funnels) in Nature Materials

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Strano Group Publishes in Nature Chemistry

September 2010

Ham M.-H., Choi J.H., Boghossian A.A. et al. publlished their results on a self-regenerating biomimetic photovoltaic cell in Nature Chemistry

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Strano Group Publishes in Science

September 2010

Lee C.Y. et al. published an article describing single ion transport inside a single-walled carbon nanotube. The article is published recently in Science (vol (329), pp, 1320-1324)

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Andrew J. Hilmer Has Been Awarded the DOE Graduate Fellowship

April 2010

Andrew J. Hilmer has been awarded the Department of Energy Graduate Fellowship. Go to DOE website

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Strano Group Publishes in Nature Materials

March 2010

H. Jin et al. published their work on the detection of single peroxide molecules by single walled carbon nanotubes in Nature Nanotechnolgy .

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See a Discovery Channel Canada segment filmed in the lab for the program "Daily Planet"

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Strano Group Publishes in Nature Materials

March 2010

W. Choi et al. published their work on carbon-nanotube guided thermopower waves in Nature Materials.

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Strano Group Featured in December Issue of MRS Bulletin

December, 2009

Strano Group Has Featured in December Issue of MRS Bulletin. Go to MRS Bulletin

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Daniel Heller Wins Silver Graduate Student Award at MRS

December 2nd, 2009

Daniel A. Heller has won Silver Graduate Student Award at MRS. Go to MRS Website

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Prof. Strano Wins 2009 PopSci's Annual Brilliant 10

October 10th, 2009

Prof. Michael Strano has won 2009 PopSci's Annual Brilliant 10. Go to the Article

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Nitric Oxide Sensor is Used to Detect Nitric Oxide in Living Cells

August 21st, 2009

A new carbon nanotube sensor developed at MIT is the first sensor that can reversibly detect nitric oxide, a gas that cells commonly use to communicate with each other. Because the nitric oxide-carbon nanotube binding is reversible, the sensor can be used multiple times. MIT Press Release Article

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Jingqing Zhang Receives NT09 Poster Award

June 26th , 2009

Jingqing Zhang has won the Poster Award of the Tenth International Conference on the Science and Application of Nanotubes (NT09). The present contribution has been selected among around five hundred poster communications. ____

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Daniel Heller Receives NT09 Poster Award

June 26th , 2009

Danieal Heller has won the Poster Award of the Tenth International Conference on the Science and Application of Nanotubes (NT09). The present contribution has been selected among around five hundred poster communications. ____

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Ardemis Boghossian Receives NSF Honors

May 19th , 2009

Ardemis Boghossian has been given the NSF Honors for her outstanding technical characteristics in engineering and the sciences while maintaining a focus on ensuring the broader impacts of her graduate studies.

 

ChangYoung Lee Receives MNSS Senturia Prize of 2009

May 14th , 2009

Chang Young Lee has won the MNSS (Micro/Nano-technology Seminar Series) Senturia Prize of 2009.

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Ardemis Boghossian Receives NDSEG Followship

April 14th, 2009

Ardemis Boghossian has received the National Defense Science & Engineering Graduate Fellowship (NDSEG), which is a three-year program given to 200 students out of thousands of applicants.

 

Ardemis Boghossian Receives SMART Fellowship

April 2nd , 2009

Ardemis Boghossian has been given the SMART Fellowship for her outstanding technical characteristics in engineering and the sciences while maintaining a focus on ensuring the broader impacts of her graduate studies.

 

Biosensors: Nanotubes Light up Cells

Mar 1st , 2009

A recent Nature Nanotechnology paper by Prof. Michael Strano and his graduate student Daniel Heller was featured in the "News and Views" of Nature Nanotechnology, entitled "Biosensors: Nanotubes light up cells".

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Nanotube Neurotoxins Detector Featured in Economist.com

Sept 4, 2008

A recent Angewandte Chemie paper by Prof. Michael Strano and his graduate student Chang Young Lee was featured in the Sept 4, 2008 edition of the Economist Technology Quarterly. This work demonstrates a new type of nano-electronic sensing device: the nanotube-gas chromatogrphy integration system.

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Nanotube Neurotoxins Detector Featured in Economist.com

June 18, 2008

Michael Strano and his graduate student Chang Young Lee were featured in Economist.com. Dr. Strano and his team have built a highly sensitive detector, using carbon nanotubes that can sense very small quantities of neurotoxins.

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Nanotube Alignment Featured in Research Highlights in Nature Nanotechnology

August 17, 2007

A recent Nano Letters article by Dr. Michael Strano and his graduate student Richa Sharma was featured in Research Highlights in Nature Nanotechnology. This work achieved aligned placement of individual carbon nanotubes for electronic applications using convective forces in a drying droplet without the use of organic solvents.

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Strano to Receive Unilever Award

April 13, 2007

Professor Michael Strano will receive the 2007 Unilever Award for Outstanding Young Investigator in Colloid and Surfactant Science from the Colloid and Surface Science Division of the American Chemical Society. The award recognizes outstanding originality and creativity in research as well as its potential impact.

 

Strano Receives Presidential Award

July 27, 2006

Professor Michael Strano was one of twenty chosen to receive a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). The award is the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on scientists and engineers beginning independent careers. This is Professor Strano's fifth major national award in the past year.

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Graduate Students Receive Collaboration Award

May 11, 2006

_Professor Michael Strano and three of his graduate students (Monica Usrey, Paul Barone, and Dan Heller) were awarded a 2006 Collaboration Success Award, at a recent national meeting of the Council for Chemical Research. The award recognizes outstanding collaborative research between academic and industrial teams. The collaborative research units were from the University of Illinois, U/C, Dupont, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of Texas, Arlington.

 

Strano Wins Young Investigator Award

April 2, 2006

___Professor Michael Strano received the 2006 Beckman Young Investigator Award. The Beckman Young Investigators (BYI) Program is intended to provide research support to the most promising young faculty members in the early stages of academic careers in the chemical and life sciences. The title of Michael's proposal was "Nanotubes as near-infrared molecular beacons: new platforms for in vivo imaging and cellular detection of biologically important molecules."

 

Strano Featured in UIUC News Bureau

February 17,2006

___Professor Michael Strano and his graduate student Esther Jeng were featured the University of Illinois News Bureau article "Detection of DNA on nanorubes offers new sensing, sequencing technologies" discussing their recent publication in the Journal of Science. The article discusses the research done leading up to this paper and its possible applications.

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DNA Wrapped Nanotubes Make News Bureau Headline

January 26, 2006

___Professor Michael Strano and Daniel Heller, his graduate student, where featured in the University of Illinois News Bureau article "DNA wrapped carbon nanotubes serve as sensors in living cells".Michael Strano and his research team's discovery opens the door to new types of optical sensors and biomarkers that exploit the unique properties of nanoparticles in living systems

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Strano Receives Award for Molecular Spectroscopy

January 2006

___Professor Michael Strano received the 2006 Coblentz Award for Molecular Spectroscopy. This award is given annually for outstanding contributions to the field of molecular spectroscopy by investigators under the age of 36.

 

Esther Jeng Awarded First Place for Research Poster

November 7, 2005

___Graduate student Esther Jeng won 1st place for her research poster, "Optical Transduction of DNA Hybridization using Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes" in the Nanoscale Science and Engineering Forum at this year's 2005 AIChE Meeting.

 

Strano Receives Young Investigator Award

September 27, 2005

___ Professor Michael Strano receives the inaugural 2005 Young Investigator Award from the Nanoscale Science and Engineering Forum of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. This award recognizes Prof. Strano's "pioneering carbon nanotube chemistry, specifically reactions selective to one-dimensional electronic structure that are essential for nanotube applications."

 

Strano Featured in Popular Science

May 23, 2005

___Information about Professor Michael Strano's near-infrared sensing technology is featured in an article, "The Best of What’s Next" in the June 2005 of Popular Science.

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Strano Receives NSF Career Award

January 18, 2005

____PProfessor Michael Strano receives the 2005 National Science Foundation CAREER Award.

 

Strano Receives TR100 Award

September 9, 2004

___ Michael Strano has been chosen as one of the world's 100 Top Young Innovators by Technology Review, the world's oldest technology magazine.

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Strano Receives Dupont Young Investigator Award

June 2004

___Professor Michael Strano received the 2004-2005 DuPont Young Investigator Award. This is a very competitive award which comes with research support for 3 years.

 

Strano's Collaboration with MIT Featured in Science

December 2003

___Dr. Michael Strano's group, in collaboration with researchers at DuPont and MIT, have reported a novel technique that uses DNA to sort carbon nanotubes. Their paper "Structure-Based Carbon Nanotube Sorting by Sequence-Dependent DNA Assembly" was featured in Science.

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Strano Featured in C&E News

December 22, 2003

___ CChemical and Engineering News featured the work of Dr. Michael Strano and his collaboraters stating that functionalizing nanotubes with diazonium reagents differentiates metallic and semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes and makes it possible to separate and manipulate them, based on differences in electronic structure.

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