Research News
February 04, 2021
Re-Engineering the Consumer Product Life Cycle
Duke civil and environmental engineers are working to make raw materials more sustainable and reimagining how we deal with harmful waste
October 14, 2020
Building Air Quality Infrastructure in South Asia
Duke University leads new $2 million program to improve air quality monitoring and public awareness throughout South Asia
September 21, 2020
Filling an AI and Materials Science Training Gap
Duke University awarded $3 million to develop a graduate training program at the nexus of artificial intelligence and materials science
August 09, 2020
Duke Materials Initiative Expands to Include Sustainable Materials Research
DMI adds Civil & Environmental Engineering and Environmental Toxicology faculty who research environmental impacts of materials
March 13, 2020
Barros Provides Scientific Expertise for New N.C. Climate Change Assessment
The North Carolina Climate Science Report benefits from the scientific expertise of two Duke University faculty members
February 10, 2020
What's in North Carolina's Drinking Water?
Faculty report on potential contaminants in the state's drinking water—and how they are helping us get a handle on the problem
January 31, 2020
Engineering Microbial Communities
Microbes hold promise for remediating environmental contaminants, and professor Claudia Gunsch wants to fine-tune them to do the best job possible
January 17, 2020
‘Melting Rock’ Models Predict Mechanical Origins of Earthquakes
New model accurately predicts why and how friction drops as rocks slide past one another with greater speed and undergo a phase change
December 23, 2019
Portraits of Particulate Matter
Images taken at Duke’s Shared Materials Instrumentation Facility may shed light for improved solar panel efficiency
December 16, 2019
Understanding How Energy Travels Through Turbulence
Theoretical and computational study shows that "eddies" squeezing themselves are mostly responsible for transferring energy to smaller scales in turbulent flows