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6/24/25 APS Physical Review Journals

Materials Paper Selected as an Editors’ Suggestion by Physical Review E (PRE)

Authored by Octavio Albarrán, Renata Garcés, Giacomo Po, Christoph F. Schmidt, and Jeff D. Eldredge

8/3/20 Duke Engineering

Researchers Create Artificial Organelles to Control Cellular Behavior

New form of synthetic biology for controlling cellular behavior uses intrinsically disordered proteins

7/21/20 Duke Engineering

Silver-Plated Gold Nanostars Detect Early Cancer Biomarkers

New optical sensing platform can detect genomic cancer biomarkers directly in patient tissues

6/26/20 Duke Engineering

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

6/26/20 Duke Engineering

Water Bottles: Canceled

CEE PhD student Imari Walker Karega wants the public to understand why environmental engineering research is important to daily life

5/18/20 Duke Engineering

‘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

5/12/20 Duke Engineering

Silver Nanocubes Make Point-of-Care Diagnostics Easier to Read

Researchers use plasmonics to enhance fluorescent markers in lab-on-a-chip diagnostic devices

5/11/20 Duke Engineering

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

5/6/20

Materials Research Society Relaunches at Duke

The primary goal of the group is to facilitate association and communication between students and faculty members working in materials science

5/4/20 Duke Engineering

Scanning Electron Microscope Images: Coming to a Screen Near You

Having dinner delivered is one thing these days; home delivery of electron microscope images is quite another.

4/30/20 Duke Engineering

COVID-19 Engineering Response Team Assembles from Every Corner of Duke

Through strong networks connecting students, faculty and staff across Duke, a team has mobilized to engineer solutions to problems created by the pandemic

4/29/20

Soft Matter Reading Club Resumes

May 18, 1-2 p.m. via Zoom The next book: Structured Fluids: Polymers, Colloids,...

4/28/20 Duke Today

DMI Members Payne, Hoffman Named Bass Fellows

Five Duke professors with demonstrated excellence in research and undergraduate instruction have been selected as the 2020 Bass Fellows

4/23/20 Duke Trinity News

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

4/21/20 Duke Engineering

Duke Engineering Spinout Aims to Improve Cancer Drug Screening

Celldom’s microfluidics imaging technology pinpoints drug-resistant cells

4/16/20 Duke Engineering

Becker, Rubinstein Awarded Distinguished Professorships

Duke Engineers join class of 29 Distinguished Professorships announced by Duke this year