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Chemical/Biochemical Microsensor Science
Last Updated Date: 10/02/2012 The Process Sensing Group at NIST is investigating a range of fundamental and technological issues related to next-generation chemical and … more
Monitoring Contaminants in the Arctic and Subarctic Using Banked Seabird Eggs
Last Updated Date: 10/02/2012 More than 95% of the seabirds breeding in the continental United States nest at colonies in the Bering and Chukchi seas and Gulf of Alaska. In … more
The NIST Standard Reference Photometer for Ozone Measurement Traceability
Last Updated Date: 10/02/2012 The NIST Standard Reference Photometer (SRP), developed jointly with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA), has provided an … more
Continuing Support for Cement Manufacturing
Last Updated Date: 10/02/2012 Cement manufacturers and their customers rely on the NIST Portland cement SRMs for laboratory qualification under ASTM International C 114-07 … more
Environmental Leaching of Nanoparticles from Consumer Products
Last Updated Date: 10/02/2012 Nanoparticle-based consumer products are becoming available in the market at an increasing rate, but the safety of nanoparticles and the … more
Isotopes as Environmental Tracers in Archived Biological Specimens
Last Updated Date: 10/02/2012 There is increasing interest in the analytical and environmental communities in using mercury isotopic fingerprinting to identify source patterns … more
Methods and Measurements for Emerging Contaminants
Last Updated Date: 10/02/2012 Regulatory and health agencies within the US, Canada, and countries within Europe are continuously identifying compounds of suspected carcinogenic … more
Assessing the Internal Structure and Composition of Climatically-Relevant Atmospheric Particles
Last Updated Date: 10/02/2012 Atmospheric particles with long atmospheric lifetimes affect Earth's radiative balance. These particles typically consist of multiple chemical … more
Broadband Coherent anti-Stokes Raman Spectroscopy of Thin Films
Last Updated Date: 10/02/2012 Coherent anti-Stokes Raman Scattering (CARS) is a high sensitivity alternative to conventional Raman spectroscopy. Ultrafast lasers are used to … more
Energy Determination of X-Ray Transition Energies Using the NIST TES Microcalorimeter Detector
Last Updated Date: 10/02/2012 Previous efforts to produce a comprehensive tabulation of atomic x-ray transition energies have been hampered by the fact that a) detectors having … more
Optical Characterization of Advanced Thin Films
Last Updated Date: 10/02/2012 A wide range of technologies are impacted by the performance of thin (<100 nm) layers of advanced materials. This is particularly true in … more
Superresolving Optical Microscopy
Last Updated Date: 10/02/2012 Light microscopy is a widely used analytical tool because it provides non-destructive, real-time, three-dimensional imaging with chemical and … more
Surface Potential Imaging of Solution Processable Acene-Based Thin Film Transistors
Last Updated Date: 10/02/2012 Scanning Kelvin probe microscopy (SKPM) of functioning solution processed thin film transistors is used to correlate film microstructure with … more
Site-Specific Bioimaging
Last Updated Date: 10/02/2012 In collaboration with scientists at the Laboratory for Cell Biology (LCB) within the National Cancer Institute (NCI) of the National Institutes of … more
Next-Generation Metrology for Drug Delivery Systems
Last Updated Date: 10/02/2012 A critical metrology issue for pharmaceutical industries is the application of analytical techniques to the characterization of drug delivery … more |
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