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Jay suiting up

| Duke Today

Threads That Tie Us Together at Duke

Jay Dalton has become exceptionally quick at suiting up in the protective gear to enter the hyper-clean space in the Fitzpatrick Center for Interdisciplinary Engineering, Medicine and Applied Sciences.

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Call for Nominations for the Inaugural SMIF Outstanding Paper Awards

The Shared Materials Instrumentation Facility (SMIF) at Duke University is pleased to announce the Inaugural SMIF Outstanding Paper Awards, recognizing outstanding, high-impact research enabled through the use of SMIF’s advanced instrumentation, facilities, and technical expertise. These awards [...]

Natalia

| Pratt School of Engineering

Natalia Litchinitser Named a Fellow of IEEE

3D spider

| Duke Today

Check This Out: Spidey Super Powers

Duke biology graduate student Brendan Lam studies the vision of harvestmen, a type of arachnid that looks like a spider. People may be scared of spiders, but Lam says: “Spiders do much more good than harm.”

Hummink

| I/O Magazine

Strategic Investments in the Little Things

An illustration portrays a Nanotyrannus attack on a juvenile T. rex. (Anthony Hutchings)

| The Washington Post

One of science’s biggest dinosaur debates may finally be settled

For decades, paleontologists debated whether fossils were of a young T. rex or a species called nanotyrannus. A new study settles it: Nanotyrannus is real.

Hummink printer

| Pratt School of Engineering

Printing Technique Could Vastly Improve the Environmental Impact of Digital Displays

Duke Engineering researchers demonstrate the first fully recyclable, sub-micrometer printed electronics.

Abstract rendering of glowing spheres; credit: Shubham Dhage via Unsplash

| Duke TODAY

Creating New Drug Delivery Techniques With AI

Duke researchers have developed a new AI-powered approach to nanoparticle drug delivery design, which performed well in lab tests with cancer drugs

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Expanded Cryo-EM Access at SMIF for External Users

SMIF's Krios 300kV Cryo-Transmission Electron Microscope is now available for use by external users.

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| School of Medicine

A Day in the Life of Erica Washington: The Fungi Expert

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.