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From the food we eat and the pharmaceuticals doctors prescribe to the paints and fuel additives we use, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) develops the technology, measurement methods, and standards to address the needs of the chemical industry.

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Programs and Projects
IECn42

The purpose of the IEC 62755 standard N42 data format is to facilitate manufacturer-independent transfer of information from radiation measurement … more

Instrument Standards for Detection of Hazardous Chemical Vapors

The overarching goal of this project is to develop and disseminate measurement tools to improve the accuracy and reliability of chemical … more

Expansion of the NIST Law Enforcement Test Bed for Trace Contraband Detection

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, led to an unprecedented deployment of technologies in the field designed to screen people and their … more

Global Warming and Greenhouse Gases

The Gas Metrology Group has undertaken a major climate change program that involves collaborations with key stakeholders in the United … more

Forensic Sciences

The Goal of this program is to manage forensic science programs and direct research efforts to develop performance standards, guidelines, and … more

Biophysics of Model Membranes

Synthetic cell membrane constructs allow the simplification and complete control of a more complicated cellular system, … more

Instruments
Raman facility

Raman scattering is a powerful light scattering technique used to diagnose the internal structure of molecules and crystals. In a light scattering … more

Continuous-wave terahertz spectrometer

The continuous-wave terahertz spectrometer makes use of two near-infrared lasers. The first laser is a fixed-frequency cw ring Ti:Sapp laser … more

Laboratory Equipment - Milli-Q Water System

Location: E134 Please refer to the manufacturers website for more information. more

Laboratory Equipment - Diagger Genie 2 Vortex Mixer

Location: E132 , E134 , E136 , E138 more

3D Atom Probe Tomography

The LEAP 4000X is a three-dimensional atom probe microscope which provides nano-scale surface, bulk and interfacial materials analysis of … more

Software
Exercise Control System

The Systems Integration Division's (SID) Manufacturing & Modeling Simulation Group (MSG) worked with San Francisco Communications to … more

LFPF Software

The Logistic Function Profile Fitting program, LFPF , is based on a Fortran program written for DOS and originally issued under the name LOGIT. … more

Isotope Enrichment Calculator

The NIST Isotope Enrichment Calculator is a program written in Visual Basic which determines the percentage of 15 N enrichment of stable … more

Simulated Chromatographic Data

The following information is provided as an aid in the validation of mathematical models used in quantitation with chromatographic data. This data … more

NIST Mass and Fragment Calculator Software

The NIST Mass and Fragment Calculator is a program written in Visual Basic which calculates the mass of an input peptide or protein sequence along … more

Expect

* Download Expect source from SourceForge * Download Expect binaries from ActiveState * Expect Homepage Expect is a tool for automating … more

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