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MML Group Leader Frank DelRio Named ASME Fellow

Group Leader Frank DelRio, leader of the Fatigue and Fracture Group in the Applied Chemicals and Materials Division, has been elected a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). The ASME Committee of Past Presidents confers the...

Christopher Stafford Named 2017 American Physical Society Fellow

Congratulations to Chris Stafford (Functional Polymers Group) for being selected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society for 2017. He is being recognized for “developing innovative techniques to enhance physical understanding of polymer thin...

Andrei Kazakov and Mark McLinden of MML Awarded 2017 DoC Gold Medal

Mark O. McLinden and Andrei F. Kazakov of MML, along with Piotr A. Domanski of EL, were awarded a 2017 Department of Commerce Gold Medal. The group was recognized for performing a systematic and exhaustive search for the next generation of...

Andrew Slifka and Elizabeth Drexler of MML Awarded 2017 DoC Silver Medal

Andrew Slifka and Elizabeth Drexler were recognized for providing the ASME hydrogen pipeline code committee the scientific basis for revising its design and construction codes, reducing the material and labor required for new hydrogen pipelines while...

Marcus Cicerone Receives 2016 Arthur S. Flemming Award

Dr. Marcus Cicerone was recently recognized for outstanding federal service through seminal contributions to the field of label-free chemical imaging, by introducing broadband coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (BCARS) microscopy, and to the field...

Migler Receives Washington Academy of Sciences Award

Dr. Migler was recognized for the design and application of innovative optical and rheological experimental techniques to definitively measure and affirm key physical phenomena of polymer fluid flow.

Analytical multimode scanning and transmission electron micrographs of sulfur copolymer-based composite cathodes

Researchers from NIST and the University of Arizona Win Best Paper Award from the Microscopy Society of America

Their submission “Analytical Multimode Scanning and Transmission Electron Imaging and Tomography of Multiscale Structural Architectures of Sulfur Copolymer-Based Composite Cathodes for Next Generation High-Energy Density Li-S Batteries” (Microsc...

Joint EL-MML Paper Receives Editor’s Choice Award

The joint EL-MML paper “Interlaboratory Study for Nickel Alloy 625 Made by Laser Powder Bed Fusion to Quantify Mechanical Property Variability” has been selected as an Editor’s Choice article for 2016 by the Journal of Materials Engineering and...

image of a 3D volume reconstruction of a forest of carbon nanotubes (CNT) embedded in epoxy

Natarajan Wins FEI Image Award

One of the November winners of the 2016 FEI Image Contest

2016 - George A. Uriano Award---Ronald Jones

For the creation of nSoft, a new engagement model to enhance industry use of neutron measurements and participation in NIST programs.

2016 - Judson C. French Award---Hua-jun He, Jamie Almeida, Kenneth Cole, Steven Choquette, Steven Lund

For development of the first-ever cancer-gene copy-number Standard Reference Material for diagnosing cancers: NIST SRM 2373.

2016 - Eugene Casson Crittenden Award---Michael Lewis

For providing exceptional service to cryogenic flow calibration customers to support custody transfer of cryogenic fluids.

2016 - Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers---Adam Creuziger

For developing measurement methods for advanced materials needed by the U.S. automotive industry to manufacture lightweight vehicles, providing metallurgical expertise to government agencies, and contributing to science education and international clean water programs.

2016 - Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers---Tara Lovestead

For pioneering research toward simple, inexpensive detection of trace levels of chemicals in vapors with unprecedented sensitivity; for enabling revolutionary advances in homeland security, forensics, and food safety; and for support of learning-based childcare.

2016 - Silver Medal Award---Andrew Allen, Lyle Levine

For establishing a revolutionary new technique for measuring materials microstructure and dynamics over multiple scales and under working conditions.

2016 - Silver Medal Award---Luke Arbogast, Robert Brinson, John Marino

For Nuclear Magnetic Resonance methods that determine the atomic structure of monoclonal antibody biopharmaceuticals with unprecedented resolution.

2016 - Silver Medal Award---Robert Keller

For pioneering a revolutionary method that improves the spatial resolution of scanning electron microscope-based electron diffraction by more than an order of magnitude.

2016 - Bronze Medal Award---Robert Chirico, Ala Bazyleva, Joseph W. Magee, Vladimir Diky

For implementation of a data quality program to validate thermophysical property measurements prior to their publication in the technical literature.

2016 - Bronze Medal Award---Stephanie Outcalt

For leadership in development of novel instrumentation, standard practices for operation, measurement and uncertainty for vibrating tube densimetry.

2016 - Bronze Medal Award---Mark Iadicola

For advancing the state of the art in the rigorous use of digital image correlation for sheet-metal-forming limit-curve determination.

2016 - Bronze Medal Award---Michael Riley, Aaron Forster, Stephanie Hooker

For the rapid deployment of a new capability to measure the mechanical properties of impact-mitigating materials for the Head Health Challenge III.

2016 - Bronze Medal Award---George Rhoderick, Michael Kelley, Walter Miller, Jr., Jennifer Carney

For developing Standard Reference Materials with the unprecedented accuracy required for climate-science measurements of atmospheric greenhouse gases.

2016 - Bronze Medal Award---Daniel Sunday, R. Joseph Kline

For the development of new X-ray measurements of the structure of self-assembling polymers for advanced lithography in the semiconductor industry.

2016 - Bronze Medal Award---Anne Andrews, Jason Boehm, David Holbrook, James St. Pierre, Michael Fasolka

For leadership, development, and implementation of the dramatically improved NIST Human Subjects Protection Program.

2016 - Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers---Tara Lovestead

In 2016, Dr. Tara Lovestead, a Research Chemical Engineer in the Experimental Properties of Fluids Group, was selected to receive the 2013 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the US...

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