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April 12, 2024 | Duke Today

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

February 29, 2024 | 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.

February 23, 2023 | 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

September 11, 2022 | 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

March 17, 2021 | 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.

August 27, 2020 | Pratt School of Engineering

Nanotechnology Network Meets National and Research Triangle Research and Educational Needs

Duke University has been renewed for five years as part of the Research Triangle Nanotechnology Network (RTNN)

May 13, 2020 | Pratt School of Engineering

A Bee’s Knees and Toilet Paper’s Fibrous Jungles—in Super-High Resolution

The Research Triangle Nanotechnology Network launches a 30-minute K-12 online educational program featuring a scanning electron microscope housed in a researcher's bedroom.

September 29, 2017

Nurturing the Nanotech Maker in Us All

New free online course teaches anyone how to make and examine materials on a molecular scale.