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February 29, 2024 | Duke Engineering
SMIF Continues Taking Materials Research to the Next Level
Duke’s Shared Materials Instrumentation Facility (SMIF) has fostered regional and national collaboration in materials research for over 25 years.
February 19, 2024 | Duke Engineering
Curiosity Drives Grade School Dropout to Solar Materials Discovery
Akash Singh earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing, Jabalpur. His current focus is on developing design rules to transform crystalline metal-halide perovskite semiconductors.
January 03, 2024 | Duke Engineering
Computational Method Discovers Hundreds of New Ceramics for Extreme Environments
A new computational method unveils hundreds of new ceramic materials with a wide range of potentially industry-disrupting properties like electronics that could function in a lava bath
November 08, 2023 | Duke Engineering
Graduate Student Brittany Smith Exemplifies the Work Being Done in Duke's Materials Research Society
The PhD candidate merges a passion for nature with sustainable sensor technology in electrical engineering while championing interdisciplinary mentorship
September 25, 2023 | University of Colorado Boulder
Scientists Funded to Teach Computers How to Develop Solar Materials
David Mitzi joins a collaboration to accelerate the discovery of the structure-property relationships that underpin the hybrid organic inorganic structures of metal-halide perovskites
August 31, 2023 | Duke Engineering
Growing Triple-Decker Hybrid Crystals for Lasers
Collaboration between Duke and Purdue explores the fabrication and optoelectric characterization of multilayered perovskites
August 21, 2023 | Duke Engineering
Miaofang Chi: Visualizing Energy Materials at the Atomic Scale
New faculty member Miaofang Chi is a leading expert in the development of new methods for cryogenic scanning electron microscopy systems
July 21, 2023 | Duke Engineering
Liang Feng: Creating Porous Materials for Enhanced Greenhouse Gas Reduction and Sustainable Energy Solutions
New faculty member Liang Feng is engineering platforms to store gasses for climate and energy applications such as capturing carbon or fueling vehicles
July 21, 2023 | Duke Engineering
Scouring Nature for the Building Blocks of Biomedical Condensates
Cross-campus collaboration seeks to discover naturally occurring biological condensates, like drops of oil forming in water, to engineer new therapeutics
July 19, 2023 | Duke Engineering
Unlocking the Future Potential of Living Materials
Researchers across campus aim to harness bacteria to engineer adaptive living materials
July 11, 2023 | Duke Engineering
Sticky, Slippery, Water Repellent Channels Form Maze-Like, Gravity-Powered Biomedical Devices
Simple, off-the-shelf, low-cost approach to point-of-care biomedical devices offers advantages over existing platforms
June 06, 2023 | Duke Engineering
The Problems With Coal Ash Start Smaller Than Anyone Thought
How well toxic elements leach out of coal ash depends on the ash’s nanoscale composition
May 22, 2023 | Duke Engineering
Flexing Crystalline Structures Provide Path to a Solid Energy Future
Machine learning approach opens insights into an entire class of materials being pursued for solid-state batteries
May 22, 2023 | Duke Health
Biologic Used by Athletes Could Also Ease Nerve Pain from Chemo, Diabetes
Autologous conditioned serum (ACS) -- a biologic therapy that famous athletes swear by to treat arthritis and sports injuries -- also shows benefit for the kind of neurological pain caused by chemotherapy or diabetes
May 15, 2023 | Duke Engineering
Sparking Imaginative Discussions to Fight Climate Change with Materials Science
The inaugural Duke Materials Initiative Symposium on Sustainable Energy Solutions for Climate Change set a high bar for the new event series