The Duke Soft Matter Center is an interdisciplinary effort to create an intellectual climate at Duke University based on a common language of soft matter. The Center facilitates collaborations between faculty in the Duke Pratt School of Engineering (ECE, BME and MEMS), Trinity College of Arts and Sciences (Chemistry, Physics, Biology, Mathematics and, Cell Biology), and the Duke School of Medicine. The vision is for the Duke Soft Matter Center to act as the headquarters for Soft Matter locally, nationally, and internationally.