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August 10, 2021 | Duke Engineering News
Addressing Climate Change with Energy Materials
Duke engineers and materials scientists are discovering and designing new materials to meet energy demands for a more sustainable future
August 10, 2021 | Duke Engineering News
Addressing Climate Change with Energy Materials
Duke engineers and materials scientists are discovering and designing new materials to meet energy demands for a more sustainable future

August 02, 2021
Tyrata Automated Tire Monitoring Safely Extends Bus Tire Life by 12%
GoDurham bus system saves $1,000 annually per vehicle with Tyrata’s IntelliTread tire monitoring system

August 02, 2021 | Duke Engineering News
‘Network of Networks’ to Advance International Efforts for Sustainable Materials
Duke-led INFRAMES initiative will connect researchers across fields and nations to build the collaborations and resources needed to study the sustainability of

August 02, 2021 | Duke Engineering News
‘Network of Networks’ to Advance International Efforts for Sustainable Materials
Duke-led INFRAMES initiative will connect researchers across fields and nations to build the collaborations and resources needed to study the sustainability of tomorrow’s materials

July 27, 2021 | Duke Engineering News
Setting Boundaries Helps Machine Learning Find One-in-a-Trillion Solutions
New “neural-adjoint” machine learning method can help researchers find optimal solutions in extremely large design spaces such as dielectric metamaterials for c

July 27, 2021 | Duke Engineering News
Setting Boundaries Helps Machine Learning Find One-in-a-Trillion Solutions
New “neural-adjoint” machine learning method can help researchers find optimal solutions in extremely large design spaces such as dielectric metamaterials for communications

July 26, 2021
An Exciting Step Towards a Shared Research-Policy Agenda in "Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining"
Stakeholders from academia, NGOs, industry, government, and international organizations convene to identify the most pressing questions in the ASGM sector

July 26, 2021 | Duke Engineering News
Catching Waves
Q&A with ECE professor and metamaterials pioneer, Steve Cummer

July 26, 2021 | Duke Nicholas School of the Environment
New Tests Can Detect Tiny but Toxic Particles of Coal Ash in Soil
DMI member Heather Stapleton is among scientists at Duke University who have developed a suite of four new tests that can be used to detect coal ash contamination in soil with unprecedented sensitivity

July 26, 2021 | Duke Engineering News
Catching Waves
Duke ECE’s Steven Cummer, the William H. Younger Distinguished Professor of Engineering, discusses new metamaterials research in this Q&A– and explains why invisibility paint is not on the horizon

July 22, 2021
Buzz About Thermoelectrics Heats Up With Promising New Magnesium-Based Materials
Researchers have gained new fundamental insights into two magnesium-based materials that have the potential to significantly outperform traditional thermoelectric designs

July 21, 2021 | CBS 17
Duke University Engineers Developing Special 3D Printer for Bone Reconstruction
Duke engineers led by Ken Gall, professor of mechanical engineering and materials science, are developing special 3D printed bone implants to save limbs from amputation

July 15, 2021 | National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
Engineers Build Nanostructures That Fight Inflammation
Duke engineers are building nanofiber-based treatments that stimulate the body to mount its own biological attack on immune disorders, which avoid side-effects of current anti-inflammatories

July 15, 2021 | Duke Engineering News
New Undergrad Certificate Offers Experience in Materials Science and Engineering
Duke’s newest undergraduate certificate program covers fundamentals at the intersection of physics, chemistry and engineering