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Research Fellow Mohammad Abidian Receives Accolades

Mohammad Abidian received the Graduate Student Silver Award from the Materials Research Society (MRS) and his article in Advanced Materials was selected as the cover and most popular article of 2006. Mohammad was awarded the the Graduate Student Silver Award during the Materials Research Society (MRS) spring 2007 event for his contribution "Aligned Conducting Polymer Nanotubes for the Controlled Release of Neurotrophins and Contact Guidance of Regenerating Neurons" - his thesis work conducted in Prof, David Martin's lab in MSE.

His paper (Abidian et. al. "Conducting Polymer Nanotubes for Controlled Drug Release" Adv. Mater. 18, 4, 405-409) was published in Advanced Materials one of the high impact journals (impact factor 9.2). This paper was selected as the cover illustration of volume 18 issue 4 in 2006. Also, according to WILEY VCH publisher for Advanced Materials this paper was one of the most popular and accessed articles in 2006-2007.

Posted on March 18, 2008, 4:29 pm