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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…

10/22/21 Duke MEDx

iMED Brings Engineering Innovation to Medicine Through the Power of Graduate Students

Andreas Seas, Jay Rathinavelu and Justin Chan are three medical students driving the rebranding of the MEDx-sponsored interest group, iMED (Innovative Medicine), formerly known as the Medicine and Engineering Interest Group

10/20/21 Duke Engineering

Duke Soft Matter Symposium Attracts Worldwide Audience

Duke Materials Initiative’s milestone event on polymer networks engages 300+ attendees from 16 nations

10/19/21

Duke Soft Matter Symposium Attracts Worldwide Audience

Duke Materials Initiative’s milestone event on polymer networks engages 300+ attendees from 16 nations

10/13/21

Charbonneau Named Fellow of APS

Duke Professor of Chemistry and Physics Patrick Charbonneau honored by the American Physics Society for contributions to understanding glassy materials

10/12/21 MSN News

Quebec Physicist Linked to Nobel-Winning Research Urges Canada to 'Value Science'

Duke Chemistry Professor Patrick Charbonneau has worked closely with Giorgio Parisi, co-winner of this year's Nobel Prize for Physics

10/11/21 Duke Engineering

Cell-Filled Pouch Creates Temporary “Chimeras” to Treat Disease

Device protects human liver cells producing critical biomolecules for six months in mice

10/5/21 Duke Engineering

Smuggling Light Through Opaque Materials

Newly proven physics opens chalcogenide glasses to applications at visible and ultraviolet wavelengths

10/1/21

Duke Engineering Lab Offers Public School Science Teachers Nanotechnology Experience

Stefan Zauscher’s lab provides hands-on summer research experiences for two public school science teachers, reaping benefits in the process

10/1/21

Developing Materials for Medical Implants to Repair Human Bone and for Other Applications

Duke University's Ken Gall translates basic materials research into medical implants to support the human skeleton and brings them to patients

10/1/21

Materials Science & Engineering Education Programs Expand at Duke

Students at all levels have new opportunities for interdisciplinary training

9/30/21

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

9/30/21

‘Shadow Waveguide’ Casts Complex Acoustic Patterns to Control Particles

New approach to 'acoustic tweezers' using metamaterials could help push past limitations for cell and tissue engineering applications

9/28/21

Activating Mechanisms to Heal Bone Fractures and Reverse Osteoporosis

Duke University's Shyni Varghese is capitalizing on the body's production of adenosine to treat bone fracture and osteoporosis

9/28/21

Twisting, Flexible Crystals Key to Solar Energy Production

Researchers show how shapes and movements of halide perovskites create desirable renewable energy properties

9/28/21

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

New polymer promises localized pain control for critical first four days