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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
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
Trophic Transfer of Nanoparticles in a Simplified Invertebrate Food Web
Last Updated Date: 10/02/2012 We demonstrated that carboxylated and biotinylated quantum dots (QDs) can be transferred to higher trophic organisms (rotifers) through dietary … more
Atomic Scale Imaging of Nanoscale Structures with Elemental Sensitivity in the NIST Titan 80-300
Last Updated Date: 10/02/2012 The characterization of CdSe/ZnS quantum dot structures has been carried out with compositionally sensitive imaging techniques utilizing the … more
Nanoparticle Assembly
Last Updated Date: 10/02/2012 Our goal is to develop a platform for in situ measurements of the directed assembly of complex solutions of nanoscale building blocks (NBB)s into … more
COMPLETED: Templated Assembly of Block Copolymer Films
Last Updated Date: 10/01/2012 Our goal is to develop critical measurement solutions that enable nanomanufacturing with template guided block copolymer assembly for next … more
Biocompatibility of Photoluminescent Silicon Nanoparticles
Last Updated Date: 10/01/2012 Photoluminescent silicon nanoparticles have a bright and stable fluorescence and are promising candidates for use in bio-imaging, cell staining … more
Semiconductor Metrology for Energy Conversion
Last Updated Date: 08/21/2012 Optical Materials Metrology 21st century optoelectronics emphasizes energy technologies, and modern security issues have heightened needs for … more
Theory and Modeling of Materials for Renewable Energy
Last Updated Date: 07/12/2012 Renewable energy sources such as solar energy are attractive alternatives to fossil fuels because of their abundant supply and pollution-free power … more
Nanoscale Functional and Structural Characterization of Thin-Film Inorganic Solar Cells
Last Updated Date: 07/10/2012 Large-scale implementation of solar power generation requires photovoltaic (PV) devices with efficiency-to-cost ratios better than existing … more
Metrology of High Current Density Electron Field Emitters
Last Updated Date: 07/10/2012 Electron sources are ubiquitous in vacuum based electronics and are used for a variety of purposes. These applications range from x-ray … more
Electron Transport in Graphene
Last Updated Date: 06/06/2012 Graphene, a one-atom thick sheet of carbon, shows great promise as a material for building nanometer-scale electronic devices that would help to … more
Light-matter Interactions in Semiconductor Nanostructures
Last Updated Date: 05/30/2012 The quantum optics of light interacting with semiconductor-based nanostructures is being studied to extend concepts of entanglement and coherence … more
Designing the Nanoworld: Nanostructures, Nanodevices, and Nanooptics
Last Updated Date: 05/30/2012 Nanoscale theory of the electronic, optical and mechanical properties of ultrasmall structures, devices and their dynamical operation and the … more |
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