Want to really impress your friend with a birthday gift? How about flying a drone to her front door that is MADE OF CHOCOLATE! It can be done, and it has been done, by a team of three Duke undergrads, with help from a chocolate maker called Chocolove. About a year ago, mechanical engineering student…
Pushing Science and Engineering to Create New Soft Materials
Engineering new materials holds enormous potential to improve and advance the global community. Breakthroughs in medicine, defense and clean energy could be achieved by designing polymeric materials with a whole host of abilities and properties. To push this emerging field forward, the National Science Foundation (NSF) set up an initiative called Designing Materials to Revolutionize…