Research News
December 03, 2018
Verma Wins 2019 Marshall Scholarship
With an education steeped in novel solutions for solar energy production, Shomik Verma is the fifth Duke engineer to win the prestigious scholarship, and the first since 2011
November 26, 2018
Disordered Materials Could Be Hardest, Most Heat-Tolerant Ever
Computational simulations predict new class of carbides that could disrupt industries from machinery to aerospace
November 01, 2018
Atomic Path from Insulator to Metal Messier than Thought
Utrafast view of atomic motions in vanadium dioxide lays groundwork for advances in computer hardware
October 08, 2018
Supercomputer Predicts Optical and Thermal Properties of Complex Hybrid Materials
Computational models of layered hybrid perovskites open new material design space for light-based applications such as LEDs and water purification
October 08, 2018
Copper Ions Flow Like Liquid through the Frozen Atomic Network of a Crystal
Atomic insights into superionic crystals could lead to safer, more efficient rechargeable batteries
September 07, 2018
Po-Chun Hsu: Engineering Nanostructured Materials to Keep You Cool
New faculty member Po-Chun Hsu designs materials at the nanoscale tailored to transmit, block and absorb thermal radiation
August 21, 2018
Duke Engineers Join National Center on Emerging Energy Materials
Three Duke faculty members will work to develop new hybrid organic-inorganic semiconductors for novel energy applications
July 03, 2018
Sound Waves Could Provide 'Liquid Biopsies'
Acoustic microfluidic platform gently and quickly separates circulating tumor cells from blood samples
March 19, 2018
Rubinstein Named 2018 Bingham Medalist of the Society of Rheology
Michael Rubinstein recognized for advancing fundamental understanding of complex fluid flows
February 27, 2018
Rico Friedrich Receives Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship
Prestigious German award will support work in computing the formation of new semiconductor and insulator materials