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Gaithersburg

A Million Pounds In Action

If you’re curious what lifting a million pounds of steel looks like, here’s your chance to see – and hear – it. NIST’s Million Pounds-Force...

Scientists Automate Key Step in Forensic Fingerprint Analysis

August 14, 2017

The first big case involving fingerprint evidence in the United States was the murder trial of Thomas Jennings in Chicago in 1911. Jennings had broken into a

Advancing Urban GHG Inventory Development for Science and Mitigation Management

Tue, Sep 19 - Wed, Sep 20 2017

Purpose: Promote discussions and strengthen collaboration among greenhouse gas emissions modelers, urban planners, and

CO2-Urban Synthesis & Analysis “USA” Network Workshop

CO2 Urban Synthesis and Analysis (USA) Network Workshop

Mon, Nov 6 - Tue, Nov 7 2017

Purpose: Launch a collaborative network of researcher and stakeholders facilitating collaboration and information

4th Atlas/NIST Workshop on Photovoltaic Materials Durability Registration

Registration To attend the Atlas - NIST Workshop on PV Materials Durability with catering, the cost is $266.00. Without the catering service...

Printing of Bioreactors

Designing, Printing, and Modifying the Surface of a Bioreactor To create an efficient stem cell bioreactor the first step is to use...

Inkjet Droplet Metrology

Gravimetric and Optical Sizing We continue to develop and improve methods for determination of droplet mass and volume dispensed from a drop...

Inkjet Printing of Medicines

Summary: Drop-on-Demand (DOD) inkjet printing allows precise deposition of picoliter (pL)-sized droplets of solutions containing inorganic...

3D Printing Metrology

Starting Materials For stereolithography AM methods successful printing of 3D objects requires some predetermined knowledge of the...

5521: NIST Handbook 130 - Price Verification

Fri, Feb 9 2018

This 1 day seminar will provide inspectors with an understanding and application knowledge of the NIST Handbook 130

Field of Dreams

August 11, 2017

A field off River Road, about 10 miles from NIST Gaithersburg campus, once held the world’s largest radio telescope and was the site of the discovery of

ExporTech™ Video Resources

These videos supplement the speakers and topics we bring into ExporTech™ sessions. They are intended to provide information only on selected...

NIST Addresses Metal 3D Printer Challenges with Digital Thread Strategy

July 17, 2017

In collaboration with the Tennessee Technological University (TTU), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has published a study addressing

EL’s Shaw Feng Leads Standardization for Key Performance Indicators for Assessing Manufacturing Sustainability Performance

August 4, 2017

ASTM International’s committee on sustainability ( E60) has developed a new guide that will help companies set reasonable, realistic operational objectives for

IROS 2017Robotic Grasping and Manipulation Competition: Manufacturing Track

The goal of the competition is to test the capabilities of a robot system in performing assembly operations relevant to a manufacturing...

Double-Shear of Bolts at High Temperatures

The behavior of high-strength structural steel at elevated temperatures, especially under shear loading, is not well established in the...

Diagram of resistive ram on/off states with moving on/off switch.

With a Gentle Touch, NIST Scientists Push Us Closer to Flash Memory Successor

August 8, 2017

Sometimes a light touch is best: When you're telling a joke or hammering a tiny finishing nail into a wall, a gentle delivery often succeeds most effectively

ThermoChemical NanoLithography: a new approach to materials patterning

Mon, Sep 18 2017, 10:30am - 11:59pm EDT

Progress in nanotechnology depends on the capability to fabricate, position, and interconnect nanometer-scale structures

NICE K-12 Cybersecurity Education Conference: Registration Open Now!

August 4, 2017

Join us at the NICE K-12 Cybersecurity Education Conference! This year, the conference will take place December 4-5, 2017 at the Omni Nashville Hotel in

ACMD Seminar: Part-of-Math Tagging and Applications

Abdou Youssef Department of Computer Science, George Washington University and NIST Thursday, August 10, 15:00 - 16:00Building 101, Lecture...

ACMD Seminar: Binomial and logarithmic Gegenbauer expansions for the even-dimensional polyharmonic equation

Howard Cohl Applied and Computational Mathematics Division, ITL, NIST Monday, August 7, 2017, 15:00 - 16:00Building 101, Lecture Room...

NIST Locations

NIST operates in two main locations: Gaithersburg, MD (headquarters—234-hectare/578-acre campus) and Boulder, CO (84-hectare/208-acre campus...

Nanoscale Thermal Imaging of Dissipation in Quantum Systems and in Encapsulated Graphene

Thu, Aug 3 2017, 10:30 - 11:30am EDT

Energy dissipation is a fundamental process governing the dynamics of physical systems. In condensed matter physics, in

5520: Handbook 133 - Checking the Net Contents of Packaged Goods - Basic

Mon, Apr 16 - Thu, Apr 19 2018

This 4 day seminar will focus on the requirements and basic test procedures for packages labeled by weight. This will

Picture of PBD set up for wavelength measurement

The Parallel Beam Diffractometer (PBD) Laboratory

The Parallel Beam Diffractometer laboratory is a highly-controlled space (0.01 degree C stability) containing a set of absolutely calibrated stacked goniometer

The Divergent Beam Diffractometer Laboratory

The Divergent Beam Diffractometer is the primary instrument at NIST used to certify powder SRMs for their X-ray diffraction properties. It is a custom-built

Sub-nanoscale electron microscopy of complex nanostructures

The aim of this project is to develop robust, quantitative measurement methods utilizing transmission electron microscopy methods for complex, nanostructured

Future Plans

New rounds of benchmark tests are planned following a three-year cycle. Work on the 2021 benchmarks started in Fall 2019 with participation...

How To Get Involved

AM-Bench is an international organization that strongly encourages broad participation from industry, academia and national labs from around...

Completed Challenge Problem Submissions and Awards

Challenge Problem Submissions and Awards AM Bench releases challenge problems to the modeling community that are associated with each set of...

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