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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. ____ __________________________________________________ |
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. ____ _____________________________________________________ |
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.
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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. ___________________________________________________________________Go to Website
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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.
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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.
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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". ___________________________________________________________________Go to Article
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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. ___________________________________________________________________Go to Article
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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. ___________________________________________________________________Go to Article
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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. ___________________________________________________________________Go to Article
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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.
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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. ___________________________________________________________________Go to Article |
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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.
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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."
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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. ___________________________________________________________________Go to Article
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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 ___________________________________________________________Go to Article
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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. _________________________________________________________________Go to Article |
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Receives NSF Career Award |
January 18, 2005 ____PProfessor Michael Strano receives the 2005 National Science Foundation CAREER Award.
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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. __________________________________________________________________Go to Article
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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.
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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. __________________________________________________________________Go to Article
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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. __________________________________________________________________Go to Article
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