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Mitzi with an X-ray diffraction tool used to study the structure and quality of potential new materials for energy-related applications.

| Pratt News

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.

Perovskites show superfluorescence—quantum coherence from solitons—emerging at high temperatures. Image: Ella Maru Studios

| NC State University

Solitonic Superfluorescence Paves Way for High-Temperature Quantum Materials

Volker Blum helps a team of researchers gain fundamental insights into designing materials that allow exotic quantum states at high temperatures.

A computational imaging system that borrows techniques from astronomy to reconstruct 4D videos of freely moving small model organisms, like zebrafish and fruit fly larvae.

| Pratt News

Astronomy Trick Enables Researchers to Capture High-Speed, 4D Videos of Moving Organisms

The imaging technique makes it easier to conduct behavioral studies of freely moving animals

Jessilyn Dunn with PhD student Brinnae Bent who is preparing to download information from a wearable health monitoring device.

| Pratt News

Medical Insights, Now Available on Your Wrist

Jessilyn Dunn gathers biometric data from smartwatches to study and predict health changes

A new cost-efficient and open-source technology could revolutionize the diagnosis and treatment of eye and brain diseases.

| Pratt School of Engineering News

AI-Integrated Imaging Reveals Retinal Cellular Structures with Precision and Speed

Biomedical engineers at Duke University have developed a novel imaging system that harnesses the power of artificial intelligence to visualize individual retinal cells better than more expensive technologies. This advance could greatly enhance modern medicine’s diagnostic and monitoring…

The atlas combines three different types of high-resolution images to provide a view of the mouse brain like never before.

| Duke University School of Medicine

The Duke Mouse Brain Atlas Promises to Accelerate Studies of Neurological Disorders

A new “atlas” developed by researchers at Duke University School of Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, and the University of Pittsburgh will increase precision in measuring changes in brain structure and make it easier to share results for scientists working to understand…

Dr. Natalia Litchinitser

| Pratt News

Tying Light from Lasers into Stable “Optical Knots”

Interference patterns between overlapping laser beams could transmit encoded information over thousands of feet through chaotic environments.

Biomedical engineers at Duke University have developed a 3D imaging method to precisely map and categorize the social behavior of animals

| Pratt News

Using Neural Networks to Precisely Model Social Behavior

A new platform uses machine learning to identify and map social interactions, unlocking new ways to study behavioral disorders like autism

Beyond The Horizon

| Pratt News

Engineering Tomorrow’s Batteries Through Molecular Modeling

A new Beyond the Horizon project seeks to provide the fundamental understanding of solid-state sodium-ion batteries to make them the preferred power source of the future

Extremely precise measurements of the distance between the Earth and the Coma cluster of galaxies provide new evidence for the Universe’s faster-than-expected rate of expansion. (Photo courtesy NOIRLab)

| Duke Today

The Universe Is Expanding More Quickly Than We Thought

A new measurement confirms what previous — and highly debated — results had shown: The Universe is expanding faster than predicted by theoretical models, and faster than can be explained by our current understanding of physics. This discrepancy between model and data became known as the Hubble…

Superfast Cooling Explores New Abilities for Promising Next Generation Optoelectronic Materials

| Pratt School of Engineering

Superfast Cooling Explores New Abilities for Promising Next Generation Optoelectronic Materials

Stabilizing the glassy state of materials using rare instrumentation unlocks a new line of research for perovskites

man sits at desk holding small object

| Duke Today

New Frontiers in Space

Satellite antenna developed by ECE Research Scientist Michael Boyarsky can take images faster and more often than existing technology

Junjie Yao

| Duke Today

Soundwaves That Shed New Light

Junjie Yao's imaging technology 'listens' to the sound of light to study different biological phenomena

a mountain landscape at sunset with two glass-lens-shaped overlays.The colors are much more vibrant within the overlays.

| Duke Engineering

Seeing Duke in a Whole New Color

New program allows color blind Duke personnel to borrow EnChroma color enhancing glasses from the library for up to a week at a time

three people in a lab with a mannikin and security sensing equipment

| Duke Magazine

Weird Science

David Smith studies metamaterials and how they turn our understanding of physics inside out