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Mechanistic Investigations of Horseradish Peroxidase-Catalyzed Degradation of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009, 131, 17194–17205 Introduction to the Star Group Prof. Alex Star Research in Alex Star's group on carbon nanotubes Member of Alex Star's Research Group Star Group Publications Star Group News Nanotechnology Links

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February 13, 2012: We congratulate Pingping Gou on her successful Ph.D. dissertation defense. We wish Dr. Gou the best of luck.
January 2012: Wanji Seo joins the Star group.
September 2011: Dr. Saad Hasan joins the Star group as a postdoc.
April 7, 2011: Yifan Tang receives the 2011-12 Graduate Excellence Fellowship.
April 6, 2011: Yanan Chen receives the 2011-12 Bayer MaterialScience Graduate Student Fellowship.
April 2011: Dr. Alexander Star has been promoted to the rank of Associate Professor of Chemistry with tenure (effective September 1, 2011).
February 25, 2011: Dr. Alexander Star receives the 2011 Chancellor's Distinguished Research Award.
January 2011: Hao Bai, Gordon Chiu, and Zachary Michael join the Star group.
September 14, 2010: Yifan Tang receives the 2010-11 Bayer MaterialScience Graduate Student Fellowship.
September 9, 2010: Ian Feigel receives the Safford Award for Excellence as a Graduate Student Teacher.
September 1, 2010: Dr. Alexander Star has received a NIEHS Outstanding New Environmental Scientist (ONES) Award, which comes with a R01 grant to conduct a five-year project entitled "Investigations and Mitigation of Carbon Nanomaterial Toxicity."
September 1, 2010: Gregg Kotchey was awarded a highly competitive U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) STAR Graduate Fellowship.
July 21, 2010: We congratulate Brett Allen on his successful Ph.D. dissertation defense. Dr. Allen has joined ICx Technologies as a senior research scientist. We wish Brett the best of luck at ICx.
March 24, 2010: We congratulate Douglas Kauffman on his successful Ph.D. dissertation defense. Dr. Kauffman was awarded a prestigious National Research Council associateship through the National Academies. He will join the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL, Pittsburgh, PA) as a postdoctoral fellow. We wish Doug the best of luck in his future endeavors.
March 2010: Dr. Alexander Star is named Section Editor-in-Chief of the topical section on "Biosensors" for the journal Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220).
February 2010: Dr. Alexander Star is awarded a NSF CAREER Award for a project entitled "Synthesis and Exploration of Graphitic Nanocapsules."
January 2010: Brian Barth and Ian Feigel join the Star group.
October 2009: Undergraduate researcher, Matthew Keddie, travels to Harrisburg, PA to present his research entitled, ‘TAILORING THE VOLUMETRIC PARAMETERS OF NITROGEN-DOPED CARBON NANOTUBE CUPS’ to Pennsylvania state legislators as a part of the state-wide Undergraduate Research at the Capital program (URC-PA).
October 2009: Gregg Kotchey receives the Safford Award for Excellence as a Graduate Student Teacher.
September 2009: Dr. Harindra Vedala joins the Star group as a postdoc.
August 2009: Yong Zhao receives the Arts and Sciences Fellowship.
June 2009: Doug Kauffman receives the 2009-10 Bayer MaterialScience Graduate Student Fellowship.
June 2009: The Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) awards the Star group with a contract for the proposal entitled "Investigations of Enzymatic Mechanisms for the Biodegradation of Carbon Nanotubes."
May 2009: Sruti Bhaumik graduates with a Master's Degree.
April 2009: Brett Allen receives the Mellon Fellowship.
March 2009: Yong Zhao joins the Star group.
December 2008: Gregg Kotchey joins the Star group.

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