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Duke–Industry Materials Connect: 2025 Kickoff Event Brings Together Regional Industry and Duke Materials Science

The Duke Materials Initiative and the Duke Critical Minerals Hub, in conjunction with Duke’s Office for External Partnerships, hosted the inaugural Duke-Industry Materials Connect event, an afternoon focused on collaboration, innovation, and networking across the broad space of Materials Science…

3/5/21 Duke Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Spotlighting Innovative Duke Women for #InternationalWomensDay 2021

Tatiana Segura (BME) and Xiaoyue Ni (MEMS) are featured among 27 women innovators for International Women's Day 2021

2/26/21 Duke Engineering

Writing New Recipes for High-Performance Materials

Duke materials scientists and engineers deploy AI and other digital tools to accelerate development of new materials to harvest energy, heal the body and more

2/24/21 Duke Engineering

Strengthened by Chaos, New Super-Hard Materials Will Stir Steel Together

A US Department of Defense project led by Duke will create AI tools to design recipes for new materials tailored to super-hard, high-temperature applications

2/18/21 Duke Engineering

The Intersection of Electrical Engineering and Materials Design

A Q with professor Adrienne Stiff-Roberts about Duke ECE's Nanoelectronic Materials and Devices research

2/16/21 Duke Engineering

Why Virtual Conferences Are Here to Stay

As Duke community members gain experience with virtual conferences, learn why they feel they’re here to stay

2/11/21 Duke Today

Duke Celebrates Women and Girls in Science Day

DMI faculty among those celebrated as Duke's path-breaking women scientists

2/9/21 Duke Today

Faculty Scholar Awardee Wants to Fight Climate Change with Materials Science

Xiaochen Du, who has worked with DMI faculty members Volker Blum and David Beratan, is interested in accelerating materials discovery to fight climate change

2/9/21 Duke Engineering

Capturing Free-Space Optical Light for High-Speed WiFi

Plasmonic speed enhancements previously constrained to nanoscale phenomena are replicated on macroscopic devices

2/4/21 Duke Engineering

Re-Engineering the Consumer Product Life Cycle

Duke civil and environmental engineers are working to make raw materials more sustainable and reimagining how we deal with harmful waste

1/11/21 Duke Engineering

Post-Surgical Patch Releases Non-Opioid Painkiller Directly to the Wound

New polymer promises localized pain control for critical first four days

1/5/21 Duke Engineering

Payne Named Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry

MEMS Associate Professor Christine Payne recognized for outstanding contributions to chemistry with research on interaction between materials and cells

12/16/20 Duke Engineering

2020 Triangle Hard Matter Workshop Was a Resounding Success

Milestone inaugural event for Duke Materials Initiative features top speakers and 300+ attendees

12/16/20 Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics

Using Quantum Rules to Move Chemistry into Uncharted Territory

Center for Synthesizing Quantum Coherence uses ultra-fast lasers to design and control chemical reactions at the quantum level before thermal effects take over

12/3/20 Duke Engineering

Gut Microbiome Snapshot Could Reveal Chemical Exposures in Children

Study of how semi-volatile organic compounds affect bacteria and fungi reveals new relationships and bacteria used for bioremediation in children's guts

12/2/20 Duke Engineering

Nanomaterials Enable Passive Dual-Mode Heating and Cooling Device

Dual-mode device to heat and cool buildings could cut HVAC energy use by nearly 20% in the U.S.