In the News
March 30, 2023 | Pratt MEMS
Brinson group member Defne Circi wins Hackathon!
Defne won the LLM Materials/Chemistry 2023 Hackathon! Check out the video on Twitter.
November 29, 2022 | Pratt aiM-NRT
The aiM Digital Learning Project by Prajakta is in the news
Check out the aiM Digital Learning Project managed by Prajakta on Youtube!
October 26, 2022 | Pratt MEMS
Group members attended the Joint NRT Symposium in Chicago
Cate, Shana, Richard, Prajakta, and Nick attended the Harnessing Data for Materials Symposium 2022 in Chicago.
April 13, 2022 | Duke Office of Durham & Community Affairs
Shana receives the Duke Community Service Award
Shana receives the Duke Community Service Award for her outstanding commitment to community engagement. Congratulations Shana!
January 13, 2022 | Pratt School of Engineering
Cate named 2022 A.C. Eringen Medalist
Cate named 2022 A.C. Eringen Medalist given by the Society of Engineering Science! Congratulations!
December 21, 2021 | WRAL TechWire
Our group is in the news
Check out this article about a new finding in a hybrid material that helps heat ventilation.
December 14, 2021 | GA Tech News
Dr. Aaron Stebner, an alumnus of our group (PhD 2012), lands a grant for AI Manufacturing Hub at Georgia Tech.
Dr. Aaron Stebner, an alumnus of our group (PhD 2012), lands a grant for AI Manufacturing Hub at Georgia Tech. Congratulations Aaron!
September 1, 2021 | Duke Science and Technology
Our work on metamaterials is in the news
Duke Science and Technology reports our work on metamaterials and the aiM-NRT program.
June 1, 2021 | Pratt MEMS
Our work on using machine-learning to predict p-s-p relationship is in the news
Our work on using machine-learning to predict processing-structure-property relationship is in the news.
February 26, 2021 | Pratt MEMS
Our work on building the NanoMine data resource is in the news
Cate talks about how NanoMine could help polymer nanocomposite design from a data approach.
November 25, 2020 | Pratt MEMS
Cate named Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Cate named Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science! Congratulations!
November 19, 2020 | Pratt School of Engineering
Cate talks about writing the materials cookbook with NanoMine
If discovering and designing next-gen materials is like cooking, Duke engineer Cate Brinson is writing the materials cookbook.
September 23, 2020 | WRAL TechWire
WRAL TechWire reports our brand new aiM-NRT program
Our brand new traineeship program for graduate students to develop expertise in applying artificial intelligence for materials science research appears in the WRAL TechWire news!
September 21, 2020 | Pratt MEMS
The brand new aiM-NRT program is in the news
The brand new traineeship program for graduate students to develop expertise in using artificial intelligence (AI) for materials science research is in the news: https://mems.duke.edu/about/news/filling-ai-and-materials-science-training-gap
July 14, 2020 | ACS Macro Letters
Our viewpoint article on polymer nanocomposite data is published on ACS Macro Letters
The viewpoint article by the NanoMine team named "Polymer Nanocomposite Data: Curation, Frameworks, Access, and Potential for Discovery and Design" is published on ACS Macro Letters.
August 5, 2019 | Pratt MEMS
Cate is named the first Sharon C. and Harold L. Yoh, III Professor at Duke Engineering
Cate is named the first Sharon C. and Harold L. Yoh, III Professor at Duke Engineering! See details here.
April 5, 2019 | Pratt School of Engineering
Cate is named chair of the department!
Cate is named Chair of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science at Duke University! Check here for details. Congratulations Cate!

February 13, 2019 | Pratt School of Engineering
Liberating Data to Discover New Polymer Nanocomposites and Metamaterials
New $5 million project aims to build an organized, searchable framework complete with analytical and predictive tools for materials discovery
November 16, 2018
Brinson group receives NSF CSSI award!
Brinson group receives the Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Scientific Innovation (CSSI) - Data and Software: Framework Implementations award from NSF. A team of experts from five universities (Duke, RPI, Caltech, Vermont and Northwestern) creates an open source data resource for the polymer [...]
September 23, 2017
Brinson group is moving!
The Brinson group is transitioning from Northwestern to Duke University! Starting in September 2017, the migration has begun. We look forward to long continued collaboration with fantastic colleagues at Northwestern, integrating with new opportunities at Duke.