Center for the Environmental Implications of NanoTechnology (CEINT)
The Center for the Environmental Implications of NanoTechnology (CEINT) is elucidating the relationship between a vast array of nanomaterials— from natural, to manufactured, to those produced incidentally by human activities— and their potential environmental exposure, biological effects, and ecological consequences. Headquartered at Duke University, CEINT is a collaboration between Duke, Carnegie Mellon University, Howard University, Virginia Tech, University of Kentucky, and Stanford University. CEINT academic collaborations in the US also include on-going activities coordinated with faculty at Clemson, North Carolina State, Rice, UCLA and North Carolina Central universities, with researchers at NIST and EPA government labs, and with key international partners.
Learn more about CEINT on its website, located at http://ceint.duke.edu/.
Center for Biologically Inspired Materials and Material Systems (CBIMMS)
The primary mission of the Center for Biologically Inspired Materials and Material Systems is to provide a greater understanding of mechanical properties associated with biological materials whose primary function is to sense and respond to environmental changes, and to develop and refine the necessary instrumentation required to characterize these properties at multiple scales.
Learn more about CBIMMS on its website, located at http://cbimms.duke.edu/.
Center for Biomolecular and Tissue Engineering (CBTE)
The program emphasizes research, education (both undergraduate and graduate) and interactions with industry. The research focus of the program is upon the action of proteins, cells and tissues -- and the materials (both natural and synthetic) with which they interact -- in natural biological processes, and in medical diagnosis and therapy. It applies the principles and experimental methods of engineering to improve the understanding of these phenomena, and uses this knowledge to develop solutions to practical as well as fundamental problems.
Learn more about CBTE on its website, located at http://bte.egr.duke.edu/
Center for Metamaterials and Integrated Plasmonics (CMIP)
The mission of the Center for Metamaterials and Integrated Plasmonics is to continue to advance the basic understanding of electromagnetic metamaterials, exploring their capabilities and limitations across the electromagnetic spectrum.
Learn more about CMIP on its website, located at http://www.metamaterials.duke.edu/
Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics (FIP)
The goals of the Institute are to: train the commercial, technical and academic leaders of next generation broadband technologies; pioneer the establishment of photonics as an information science; and pioneer new approaches to industrial, governmental and interacademy collaboration. Research themes include quantum optics, opto-electronics, information spaces, and biophotonics.
Learn more about FIP on its website, located at http://www.fitzpatrick.duke.edu/
Triangle Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (Triangle MRSEC)
The mission of the Triangle MRSEC is to have a major national and international impact in soft matter materials science through generation of new fundamental insights and theoretical understanding, new design principles, and new applications and uses for colloidal and macromolecular materials and their higher order assemblies.
Learn more about Triangle MRSEC on its website, located at http://www.mrsec.duke.edu