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Matthew Hoehler Receives 2019 SFPE Educational and Scientific Foundation Jack Bono Award

The Jack Bono Award for Engineering Communications was awarded for their paper entitled "Imaging Through Fire Using Narrow Spectrum Illumination" that will appear in 2019 in Fire Technology (Volume 55, Issue 6, pp 1705-1723).This award recognizes...

Mina Samir Seif Receives 2018 MAJR Medal

The “McGuire Award for Junior Researchers” (MAJR Medal) is awarded by the Structural Stability Research Council (SSRC) to a researcher who has impacted the structural stability field through service and research within ten years after obtaining their...

Kuldeep Prasad Receives CO-Labs Governor's Award for High Impact Research

Free Range Frequency Combs: a collaborative journey from national lab to Colorado’s oil and gas fields

Femtosecond Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy of Nanoscale Materials

Condensed matter dynamics can evolve on a subpicosecond timescale, too fast to follow using many characterization techniques. We use femtosecond optical pulses

Speaker Biographies

Ultraviolet Disinfection Technologies & Healthcare Associated Infections: Defining Standards and Metrology Needs (Past Event) January 14-15...

Reminder for 2020 Baldrige Award Applicants: Send Eligibility Forms by February 12

January 13, 2020

If your organization or one you know is interested in applying for a 2020 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, please note that your Eligibility...

Using Process Controller Devices

There are several common ways of setting a process control value, such as temperature, in NICE. While the examples below, use temperature...

An In-Depth Look into Intellectual Property: Part One

January 10, 2020

Introduction NIST has a broad mission to promote U.S. innovation and industrial competitiveness by advancing measurement science, standards and technology in...

NICE Released the Winter 2019-20 eNewsletter

January 9, 2020

The Winter 2019-20 NICE eNewsletter has been published to provide subscribers information on academic, industry, and government developments related to the...

NIST Releases Version 1.0 of Privacy Framework

January 16, 2020

Our data-driven society has a tricky balancing act to perform: building innovative products and services that use personal data while still protecting people’s...

TGDC Subcommittee Work - Historical Meetings - STS Meetings - 2007

Technical Guidelines Development Committee (TGDC) Security and Transparency Subcommittee (STS) Teleconference * August 14, 2007, 10:30 a.m...

DOC’s Women in STEM Present Tech Transfer Webinar on JAN 15

Wed, Jan 15 2020, 12:00 - 1:00pm EST

Do you want to know why technology transfer is crucial when it comes to your research? Department of Commerce Women in

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An Early Warning System for Damage in Composite Materials

February 18, 2020

A team at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed a tool to monitor changes in widely used composite materials known as fiber...

Jeff's Publications

Publications: Return to Home page Books, Chapters, and Reviews Below is a list of Refereed Publications. They are complete starting in 1990...

Using neutron scattering techniques to probe the effect of salt on the chain dimensions and segmental dynamics of polymer electrolytes

Thu, Jan 23 2020, 10:45am EST

Solid polymer electrolytes are of significant current interest due to their potential use in rechargeable lithium metal

Optical and Optoelectronic Materials Characterization

This project aims to develop rigorous measurements and methodology needed for determining optical and electrical properties of advanced materials that might be

Carl Simon to Receive C. William Hall Award

The objective of the C. William Hall Award is to honor industry and government members of the Society For Biomaterials who have made a significant contribution to the Society and have an outstanding record in establishing, developing, maintaining and...

NIST Publishes 2018 Department of Commerce Laboratories Technology Transfer Report

December 31, 2019

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued the U.S. Department of Commerce’s (DOC) 2018 Annual Report on Technology Transfer. The...

NICE 2019-20 Winter eNewsletter

Maryland Department of Commerce’s inaugural Maryland Innovation & Technology (MINT) Series

December 23, 2019

BETHESDA, Md. – More than 200 personnel from the federal government, industry, academia and economic development entities registered for Maryland Department of...

IEEE Big Data

IEEE Big Data Governance and Metadata Management (BDGMM) Activities [NIST chaired and continues to participate in the IEEE Big Data...

Optical Measurements Group

The Optical Measurements Group develops advanced photonics-based measurement techniques and provides reference data relevant to light-matter interactions with broad applications to environmental monitoring, remote sensing, biomedical diagnostics, materials characterization, energy transformation