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MML Leads Discussion of Dynamic Fracture Testing
Release Date: 12/02/2008 On May 7, 2008, MML and Mississippi State University co-hosted a workshop to discuss recent advances in fracture toughness testing of structural … more
NIST, NCI Bring Web 2.0 Tools to Nanotechnology Standards Effort
Release Date: 11/12/2008 Federal government and U.S. industry scientists say they are forging ahead with plans for an international, online collaboration to speed up … more
NIST Reference Materials Are 'Gold Standard' for Bio-Nanotech Research
Release Date: 10/31/2008 The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued its first reference standards for nanoscale particles targeted for the … more
NIST/CSM Sensor Could Help Avert Pipeline Failures
Release Date: 10/01/2008 Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Colorado School of Mines (CSM) have developed a prototype sensor that … more
Models of Eel Cells Suggest Electrifying Possibilities
Release Date: 10/01/2008 Engineers long have known that great ideas can be lifted from Mother Nature, but a new paper* by researchers at Yale University and the National … more
Bottoms Up: Better Organic Semiconductors for Printable Electronics
Release Date: 09/03/2008 Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Seoul National University (SNU) have learned how to tweak a new … more
Slippery Customer: A Greener Antiwear Additive for Engine Oils
Release Date: 07/22/2008 Titanium, a protean element with applications from pigments to aerospace alloys, could get a new role as an environmentally friendly additive for … more
Toothpick: New Molecular Tag IDs Bone and Tooth Minerals
Release Date: 07/09/2008 Enlisting an army of plant viruses to their cause, materials researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have … more
New Process Creates 3-D Nanostructures with Magnetic Materials
Release Date: 06/24/2008 Materials scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a process to build complex, three-dimensional … more
Microwave Synthesis Connects With the (Quantum) Dots
Release Date: 06/10/2008 Materials researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a simplified, low-cost process for producing … more
A Molecular 'Salve' to Sooth Surface Stresses
Release Date: 05/28/2008 Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have shown for the first time that a single layer of molecular … more
New 3-D Test Method for Biomaterials ‘Flat Out’ Faster
Release Date: 04/29/2008 A novel, three-dimensional (3-D) screening method for analyzing interactions between cells and new biomaterials could cut initial search times by … more
Metal Detectives: New Book Details Titanic Investigation
Release Date: 04/15/2008 In February 1998, Timothy Foecke, a metallurgist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), published a rather low-key … more
Copolymers Block Out New Approaches to Microelectronics at NIST
Release Date: 03/18/2008 In response to the electronics industry’s rallying cry of “smaller and faster,” the next breakthroughs in the … more
Nanomaterials Show Unexpected Strength Under Stress
Release Date: 03/18/2008 In yet another twist on the strangeness of the nanoworld, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the … more |
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