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Recent Media Coverages

- Research Highlights in Nature Nanotechnology (Apr-2009): DNA can improve the performance of QD-LEDs.

- Research Highlights in Nature Chemistry (20-Feb-2009): Nitrogen-doped carbon nanotubes array for use in fuel cells

- Physics Today (12-Feb-2009): Carbon nanotubes for fuel cells

- CHEMICAL & ENGINEERING NEWS (09-Feb-2009): Nitrogen-doped carbon nanotubes could make fuel cells more affordable

- NewScientist (06-Feb-2009): Carbon catalyst could herald cut-price fuel cells

- Technology Review (05-Feb-2009): Cheaper Fuel Cells

- NanoWerk Spotlight (05-Feb-2009); Nitrogen-doped carbon nanotube catalyst systems for low-cost fuel cells

- Dr. Liming Dai talks with ScienceWatch.com and answers a few questions about this month’s Fast Breaking Paper in the field of Materials Science

- NSF News (Oct-14-2008): As sticky as a Gecko… but Ten Times Stronger

- ScienceDaily (09-Oct-2008): Mimicking Gecko Feet: Dry Adhesive Based on Carbon Nanotubes Gets Stronger 

- NewScientistTech (09-Oct-2008): Gecko-grip material aims to be end of glue

- Research Highlights in Nature Nanotechnology (17-Oct-2008): Nanotubes: Echoes of geckos

- Scientific American (09-Oct-2008): New adhesive is stickier than gecko feet and doesn’t lose its grip

- NanoWerk News (09-Oct-2008): Mimicking gecko feet leads to new dry adhesive based on carbon nanotubes

- NanoWerk Spotlight (28-Jun-2008): Nanotechnology miniaturization could lead to a Lab-on-a-CNT

- Research Highlight in Nature Nanotechnology: Smart nanocomposite films made from carbon nanotubes and a temperature-responsive polymer gel show self-cleaning and controlled release properties (Published online: 23-Nov-2007)

- Laser Focus World (14-Feb-2008): Carbon-nanotube films mimic gecko feet

- NanoWerk Spotlight (11-Dec-2007): First nanotechnology genotoxicity tests find that carbon nanotubes could damage DNA

- RSC Publishing Chemical Technology (10-Dec-2007): Protruding polymer offers release

- Dr. Liangti Qu received the “Best Paper Award” at SAMPE Fall Technical Conference held in Cincinnati on October 29- November 1, 2007

- Prof. Liming Dai presented a plenary talk at SPIE Conference in San Diego on 28-30 Aug. 2007

- Most-Accessed Article in J. Phys. Chem. B (Jan.-Mar-2007) on nanodiamond cytotoxicity

- ACS' weekly news (Dec. 20 2006, Article #4) on our recent work on nanodiamond cytotoxicity

- NanoWerk Spotlight: Nanodiamond cytotoxicity

- Responsible Nanotechnology on our Nanodiamond cytotoxicity work

- NanoWerk Spotlight: Towards multidimensional, multicomponent, and multifunctional nanomaterials

- MIT Technology Review on multifunctional flexible polymer and aligned carbon nanotube nanocomposites

- Royal Society of Chemistry's Chemistry World News

- Highlight for our JACS paper in Small “Asymmetric End-Functionalization of Carbon nanotubes” small 2005, 1, 1148-1150

- 2006 Sigma Xi’s George Noland Research Award

- 2006 Outstanding Engineers and Scientists Award from Affiliate Societies Council of Dayton

- Amanda Schrand received "Best Student Poster Award" in Ohio Nanotechnology Summit (2006)