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Cell Press

| Cell Press

Surface termination engineering of 2D titanium carbides for light-activated soft robotics applications

We are excited to see a paper that used so many fabrication and characterization tools within SMIF-and robots! SMIF tools used include: cleanroom, sample prep lab, plasma asher, XPS, SEM, RAMAN, XRD, AFM.

Jacob Peloquin, a recent PhD graduate and aiM program participant who is now a faculty member at NC State, looks at the internal structures of smashed 3D-printed cubes.

| Pratt School of Engineering News

How AI is Rewriting the Rules of Materials Discovery

Duke’s Artificial Intelligence for Materials (aiM) program trains graduate students to use AI to accelerate materials discovery.

This illustration shows how X-shaped monomers are interlinked to create the 2D mechanically interlocked polymer. Credit: Mark Seniw, Center for Regenerative Nanomedicine, Northwestern University

| NSF Stories

Chainmail-like polymer could be the future of body armor

Scientists created and imaged a 2D interlocked polymer that is lightweight yet flexible and strong — and contains the highest density of mechanical bonds ever achieved.

Hyaenodonts, illustrated here, were hyena-sized, meat-eating mammals that hunted through the forests of present-day Africa roughly 30 million years ago.

| Science News

A skull found in Egypt shows this top predator stalked ancient Africa

The complete hyaenodont fossil holds evolutionary clues about the ancient apex predators

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| Pratt School of Engineering

David Mitzi wins Cherry Award

Mitzi was recognized for his significant contributions to the science and technology of photovoltaics, or the conversion of light energy into electricity.

Fig. 1. The DMBA combines 3D MRH and LSM of the C57BL/6J mouse brain in a stereotaxic space.

| Duke University School of Medicine

The Duke Mouse Brain Atlas Promises to Accelerate Studies of Neurological Disorders

A new “atlas” developed in part by researchers at Duke University School of Medicine will increase precision in measuring changes in brain structure and make it easier to share results for scientists working to understand neurological diseases such as Alzheimer's disease.

| LinkedIn

Duke Engineering Hosts Participants from Engineering for US All (e4usa)

Students got a firsthand look at the Shared Materials Instrumentation Facility, checked out our makerspaces, visited Maria Gorlatova's lab, and got inspired by the Duke ECE Integrated Design Challenge showcase. ✨

| Duke Pratt School of Engineering

Duke Engineering Hosts Riverside High School Engineering Program

Duke's Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering brought more than 80 high school students to campus for a full day including tours, lunch and a lab.

| Duke Pratt School of Engineering

SMIF Executive Director Announcement

David Mitzi has accepted the position as the new Executive Director of the Shared Materials Instrumentation Facility (SMIF), taking on the mantle from current Executive Director Nan Jokerst.

| Duke University Libraries

The Case of the Oily Book

Duke Library conservator utilizes SMIF to analyze stains in a 500 year old book

| Duke Today

Nanoscale Movies Shed Light on One Barrier to a Clean Energy Future

| Duke Engineering

SMIF Continues Taking Materials Research to the Next Level

Duke’s Shared Materials Instrumentation Facility (SMIF) has fostered regional and national collaboration in materials research for over 25 years.

| Duke Engineering

Big Ideas on Small Scales with Jay Dalton

As a research and development engineer at Duke SMIF, Dalton helps students, staff and faculty learn how to use complex tools to develop miniscule solutions to big problems

| Duke Engineering Magazine

Thinking Small

Duke’s Shared Materials Instrumentation Facility cultivates a collaborative and empowering environment for engineers who work at the tiniest scales

| Duke Today

SMIF featured in video "DUKE & UNC: Rivals on the Court, Teammates in Science"

SMIF and the RTNN are featured in this one-minute video that was produced for the March 2021 Duke-UNC Basketball game.