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Materials Discovery & Development
Duke engineers are leaders in discovering and developing materials with desired structures and properties for diverse applications in areas such as health, computing, energy and security.

Major Centers & Initiatives
University-Wide
• Duke Materials Initiative (DMI)
• Shared Materials Instrumentation Facility (SMiF)
Biomaterials
Computational Materials Science
- Center for Autonomous Materials Design
- Computation & AI Group—Duke MEMS
- Spinodal-Hardened High-Entropy Ceramics MURI (SPICES)
Energy, Electronic & Photonic Materials
Metamaterials
Soft Matter & Nanoscale Materials
- Soft Matter & Nanoscale Materials Group—Duke MEMS
- Nanoelectronic Materials & Devices Group—Duke MEMS
- Duke Soft Matter Center—with Duke's Trinity College of Arts & Sciences