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Mercury Vapor Pressure Correlation
Last Updated Date: 10/09/2012

An apparent difference between the historical mercury vapor concentration equations used by the mercury atmospheric measurement community and a … more

Neutron Imaging for Health, Environment, and the Hydrogen Economy
Last Updated Date: 10/09/2012

Quantitative imaging tools enhance our ability to understand biological systems and achieve efficient hydrogen fuel cells. Today's … more

Potential Primary Measurement Tool for the Quantification of DNA
Last Updated Date: 10/09/2012

The accurate mass determination of DNA and other nucleic acids is of critical importance in many clinical diagnoses and in forensic and molecular … more

Study of Microheterogeneity in Solid Reference Materials
Last Updated Date: 10/09/2012

Microbeam X-ray fluorescence (µXRF) has been used nondestructively to investigate elemental heterogeneity by constructing two-dimensional … more

Improving High-Performance Inductively-Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectrometry (HP-ICP-OES) Through Exact Matching
Last Updated Date: 10/09/2012

Using high-performance inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry (HP‑ICP-OES), relative expanded uncertainties on the order … more

Evaluation of Independent High-Precision Assay Procedures for a High-Purity Primary Standard Reagent
Last Updated Date: 10/09/2012

NIST assigns assay values for a suite of high-purity reagents using two techniques: coulometry and titrimetry. Coulometry is based on … more

Marine Environmental Metabolomics
Last Updated Date: 10/09/2012

NIST is developing NMR-based metabolomics for use as a tool to expand research on the impacts of environmental stressors on marine organisms. The … more

Novel Stationary Phase Materials in Separation Science Research
Last Updated Date: 10/09/2012

Research activities in separation science continue to focus on investigations of the fundamental physical and chemical processes that influence … more

Development of Reference Methods and Reference Materials for Proteins
Last Updated Date: 10/09/2012

A number of proteins show promise as potential markers of health or disease, and commercial assays are being developed for these proteins. For … more

COMPLETED:  Polymer Formulations
Last Updated Date: 10/05/2012

Our goal is to develop combinatorial and high-throughput measurement approaches for rapid characterization of the structure and phase behavior of … more

COMPLETED: Combinatorial Approaches to Thin Film Nanomaterials
Last Updated Date: 10/05/2012

Our goal is to develop combinatorial library approaches for measuring and optimizing the effect of substrate chemical functionalization on the … more

NIST Test Bed for Explosives Trace Detection
Last Updated Date: 10/04/2012

The NIST Entry Point Screening Test Bed conducts fundamental research to generate measurements and standards that address critical challenges in … more

Dental Materials Project
Last Updated Date: 10/03/2012

Our goal is to provide measurement methods and reference materials to facilitate the rational design of polymeric dental materials, thus enabling … more

Chemical Characterization of Nanomaterial Formulations for Cancer Treatment in Support of the NCI Nanotechnology Characterization Laboratory
Last Updated Date: 10/02/2012

New generations of nanoparticles are being developed to provide early-stage detection and treatment of cancer. Much of the evaluative work on … more

New Gold Nanoparticle RMs Support Nanotechnology Research
Last Updated Date: 10/02/2012

Three new reference materials (RMs) have been developed through a multi-division effort at NIST, led by the MML Ceramics Division . RMs 8011, … more

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