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Xiaoyue Ni Xiaoyue Ni

| Duke Engineering

Xiaoyue Ni: Designing Smart Materials and Wearable Technologies to Improve Health

New faculty member Xiaoyue Ni develops programmable materials and wearable electronic devices to advance precision medicine and health monitoring in the digital age
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| Duke Engineering

Duke Materials Initiative Expands to Include Sustainable Materials Research

DMI adds Civil & Environmental Engineering and Environmental Toxicology faculty who research environmental impacts of materials

A tangled mess of blue lines criss-crossing a 3D graphical space with one red line zig-zagging through it A tangled mess of blue lines criss-crossing a 3D graphical space with one red line zig-zagging through it

| Duke Engineering

Coordinating Complex Behaviors Between Hundreds of Robots

A new approach to designing motion plans for multiple robots grows “trees” in the search space to solve complex problems in a fraction of the time
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| Duke Engineering

From the Lab, the First Cartilage-Mimicking Gel That's Strong Enough for Knees

Cartilage provides a combination of cushiony-yet-strong that hydrogels haven't been able to match, until now
Schematics showing rows of yellow rectangles that create soundwaves depicted by lines to show how they flow and rotate Schematics showing rows of yellow rectangles that create soundwaves depicted by lines to show how they flow and rotate

| Duke Engineering

Sound Waves Transport Droplets for Rewritable Lab-on-a-Chip Devices

Vibrating transducers create tunnels in a thin layer of oil to transport droplets across a chip without leaving a trace behind
A black star-shaped crystal A black star-shaped crystal

| Duke Engineering

New Handle for Controlling Electromagnetic Properties Could Enable Spintronic Computing

The magnetic transition of troilite causes instabilities in the “space metal’s” structure that transforms it from a conductor to an insulator
Ken Hall next to the NAE emblem Ken Hall next to the NAE emblem

| Duke Engineering

Hall Elected a Member of the National Academy of Engineering

Duke mechanical engineering professor recognized for three decades of contributions to aerodynamics and aeromechanics
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| Duke Engineering

Exploring Tiny Forces with Single Molecule Force Spectroscopy

Stretching molecules and pulling them apart reveals volumes about the way they function

Tony Huang, Ravi Bellamkonda and Ashutosh Chilkoti Tony Huang, Ravi Bellamkonda and Ashutosh Chilkoti

| Duke Engineering

Three Duke Engineers Named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

Ravi Bellamkonda, Ashutosh Chilkoti and Tony Huang are among seven Duke faculty to join AAAS
A circular crack in a pane of glass with different angles and measurements superimposed A circular crack in a pane of glass with different angles and measurements superimposed

| Duke Engineering

Physics of Windshield-Cracking Raindrops Could Demolish Kidney Stones

New models of a phenomenon first seen in the circular cracking of supersonic jet windshields flying through rain could point to better approaches of pulverizing kidney stones