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September 21, 2020 | Duke Engineering News
Filling an AI and Materials Science Training Gap
Duke University awarded $3 million to develop a graduate training program at the nexus of artificial intelligence and materials science
September 04, 2020 | Duke Engineering News
‘Floppy’ Atomic Dynamics Help Turn Heat into Electricity
‘Cold neutrons’ uncover atomic dynamics that give thermoelectric materials low-heat conductivity
September 03, 2020 | Duke Engineering News
Sophisticated Modeling Boosts Split Ventilators to Emergency FDA Review
Duke engineers and clinicians devise a system for ensuring patients receive just the right amount of air
August 26, 2020 | Duke Engineering News
Type 2 Diabetes Drugs Work Better in Tethered Combination Therapy
Slow-release molecule featuring two complementary type 2 diabetes drugs controls blood sugar levels while promoting weight loss in mice for one week following a single injection
August 24, 2020 | Duke Engineering News
Nanotechnology Network Meets National and Research Triangle Research and Educational Needs
Renewal grant ties Duke together with Triangle universities to help researchers, businesses and educators pursue nanotechnology innovation
August 18, 2020 | Duke Engineering News
Xiaoyue Ni: Designing Smart Materials and Wearable Technologies to Improve Health
New faculty member Xiaoyue Ni develops programmable materials and wearable electronic devices to advance precision medicine and health monitoring in the digital age
August 09, 2020 | Duke Engineering News
Duke Materials Initiative Expands to Include Sustainable Materials Research
DMI adds Civil & Environmental Engineering and Environmental Toxicology faculty who research environmental impacts of materials
August 03, 2020 | Duke Engineering News
Researchers Create Artificial Organelles to Control Cellular Behavior
New form of synthetic biology for controlling cellular behavior uses intrinsically disordered proteins
July 21, 2020 | Duke Engineering News
Silver-Plated Gold Nanostars Detect Early Cancer Biomarkers
New optical sensing platform can detect genomic cancer biomarkers directly in patient tissues
June 26, 2020 | Duke Engineering News
Water Bottles: Canceled
CEE PhD student Imari Walker Karega wants the public to understand why environmental engineering research is important to daily life
June 26, 2020 | Duke Engineering News
From the Lab, the First Cartilage-Mimicking Gel That's Strong Enough for Knees
Cartilage provides a combination of cushiony-yet-strong that hydrogels haven't been able to match, until now
May 18, 2020 | Duke Engineering News
‘Vortex Microlaser’ Encodes Information in Twisting Beams of Light
Engineers develop first tunable, chip-based vortex microlaser and detector, providing a new route to increasing the bandwidth of fiber optic communications
May 15, 2020
DMI Chemist Puts New Spin on Organic Materials
Duke chemist is searching for materials that allow engineers to build electronics which could open the door to faster computing, increased data storage and even entirely new kinds of technology
May 12, 2020 | Duke Engineering News
Silver Nanocubes Make Point-of-Care Diagnostics Easier to Read
Researchers use plasmonics to enhance fluorescent markers in lab-on-a-chip diagnostic devices
May 11, 2020 | Duke Engineering News
Inexpensively Locating Friendly (and Unfriendly) Radio Waves
Passive method for locating and characterizing radio waves could lead to cameras that can capture images using ambient radio waves