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Additive Manufacturing of Biomaterials

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Additive Manufacturing (AM) studies the characteristics, material properties, and...

Additive Manufacturing of Ceramics

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Additive Manufacturing (AM) studies the characteristics, material properties, and...

Additive Manufacturing of Polymers

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Additive Manufacturing (AM) studies the characteristics, properties, and behaviors of...

Additive Manufacturing of Metals

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Additive Manufacturing (AM) studies the characteristics, properties, and behaviors of...

AI Can ‘Hear’ When a Lithium Battery Is About to Catch Fire

November 14, 2024

NIST researchers have trained AI to detect the telltale sound even in noisy environments.

Additive Manufacturing of Advanced Materials

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Additive Manufacturing (AM) studies various materials to advance additive...

Interdomain Distance Measurements of Monoclonal Antibodies

Monoclonal antibody (mAb) therapeutics generate $75 billion dollars in revenue for biopharmaceutical companies and constitute nearly 50 % of top therapeutics by

Additive Manufacturing Interlaboratory Studies

The National Institute of Standard and Technology (NIST) Additive Manufacturing (AM) Program participates in interlaboratory studies (ILS)...

Colloquium "120 Years of Atomic Spectroscopy at NIST"

Fri, Dec 13 2024, 9:00am - 5:00pm EST

Exactly 120 years ago, researchers at NIST (then National Bureau of Standards) published their first scientific papers

Additive Manufacturing Products and Resources

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) develops various products and resources to support U.S. commerce and...

Additive Manufacturing Standards and Benchmarks

The National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) Additive Manufacturing (AM) team develops standards and benchmarks for AM. See...

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AI and Flow Cytometry Workshop

Mon, Jun 9 - Tue, Jun 10 2025

A NIST–FDA–NIAID Co-Organized Workshop This workshop aims to advance AI/ML applications in flow cytometry and related

Genome Editing Consortium Workshop

Thu, Jun 12 2025

The purpose of this workshop is to share and obtain feedback on current and future activities of the NIST Genome Editing

Additive Manufacturing Instruments

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Additive Manufacturing (AM) studies various material properties. If you are interested...

Additive Manufacturing Research Areas

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Additive Manufacturing (AM) focuses on research in materials, technologies, and...

Work With Us

There are several ways to collaborate with our National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Additive Manufacturing (AM) team. While...

Battery Electric Vehicles

Types of Electric Vehicles A battery electric vehicle (BEV) is a vehicle that operates using the charge from a battery pack. The battery...

NIST Participates in First Workshop on Zero Trust Architecture in Mobile Networks

November 5, 2024

CTL staff Scott Rose, Oliver Borchert, and Doug Montgomery participated in the first joint O-RAN / 3GPP workshop on the standardization of zero trust...

A Better Balance for Tiny Liquid Masses

November 5, 2024

Scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are developing a mass balance to measure miniscule amounts of liquid with much higher...

NIST Team Uses Neutron Beams to Authenticate Historic Coins and Spot Fakes

April 29, 2025

Imaging antique coins with beams of low-energy neutrons, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their colleagues have...

Additive Manufacturing General Research

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Additive Manufacturing (AM) team doesn't require formal agreements in order to...

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2025 - TMS Fellow Award---Ursula Kattner

The TMS Fellow Award is presented to The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) members who have made outstanding contributions to the practice of metallurgy/materials science and technology. The award includes a life membership to TMS and is...

Characterized Authentic Drug Samples (CADS)

Development and validation of new analytical or data tools for seized drug analysis require demonstration of the approach's ability to accurately detect the

Additive Manufacturing Publications

The National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) Material Measurement Laboratory's (MML) Additive Manufacturing (AM) program...

IEG Announcements Archive 2022

2024 2023 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 Return To IEG Homepage 09/01/2022 Recommendations to OSAC by discussion groups OSAC, https://www...

NIST Wins Multiple CyberScoop 50 Awards

NIST’s Cherilyn Pascoe and the Post Quantum Cryptography Standards project team have been selected as winners of the 2024 CyberScoop 50 Awards . The winners were chosen in recognition of their important work in protecting vital networks, critical...

2024 - North American Thermal Analysis Society Outstanding Service Award---Ran Tao

Dr. Ran Tao recently received the NATAS Outstanding Service Award at the 2024 50th Annual Conference of the North American Thermal Analysis Society in Knoxville, Tennessee, in recognition of her dedication and leadership in serving the Society. Since...