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Collaborating Facilities

Contact Information: Adam Jacoff - Project Leader RobotTestMethods [at] nist.gov (RobotTestMethods[at]nist[dot]gov) (link sends e-mail) Adam.Jacoff [at] nist.gov (Adam[dot]Jacoff[at]nist[dot]gov) (link sends e-mail) 301...

The Parallel Hierarchical Adaptive MultiLevel Project (PHAML)

The PHAML project is to develop new methods and software for the efficient solution of 2D elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs) on distributed memory

Digital Video Exchange Standards

Video evidence from Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) Digital Video Recording (DVR) systems is a powerful resource for forensic investigations. Industry lacks a

NIST Researchers Use a Standardized Caenorhabditis elegans Toxicity Test to Assess Nanomaterial Toxicity

November 4, 2016

Toxicity assays are an important component in identifying potential health or environmental hazards associated with chemicals. The development of robust...

Forensic Toxicology Testing for Medicolegal Death Investigation Workshop

September 14, 2016 in Gaithersburg, MD NIST, National Institute of Justice, and National Center for Health Statistics recently sponsored a...

NIST MEP to Help Small Manufacturers Engage with Manufacturing Innovation Institutes

April 22, 2016

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will provide up to $7 million in funding for pilot projects to benefit small U.S. manufacturers by...

NIST’s Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board Names New Chair

April 29, 2016

Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Director Willie E. May today announced the...

NIST Releases 2015 Department of Commerce Technology Transfer Report

April 18, 2016

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released the Department of Commerce's (DOC) 2015 Technology Transfer Report. The annual report...

For Rechargeable Batteries That Crush the Competition, Crush This Material

April 1, 2016

By chemically modifying and pulverizing a promising group of compounds, scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have potentially...

NICE Framework Provides Resource for a Strong Cybersecurity Workforce

November 2, 2016

KANSAS CITY, Mo.—The U.S. Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology ( NIST) released a resource that will help U.S. employers more...

Focused MeV Proton Beams for 3D Nano-Lithography, DNA nanofluidics and Nanoimprint lithography: Outlook towards fast fabrication at sub 10 nanometer

Tue, Dec 6 2016, 3:00 - 4:00pm EST

Jeroen A. van Kan Centre for Ion Beam Applications, Department of Physics, National University of Singapore

Balance and Scale Calibration and Uncertainties

Description and Purpose: This 4-day seminar from the NIST Office of Weights and Measures (OWM) covers the calibration and use of analytical...

NIST Announces CyberSeek, An Interactive Resource for Cybersecurity Career Information

November 1, 2016

The U.S. Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology ( NIST) today introduced CyberSeek, an interactive online tool designed to make it...

New NIST Security Standard Can Protect Credit Cards, Health Information

March 29, 2016

For many years, when you swiped your credit card, your number would be stored on the card reader, making encryption difficult to implement. Now, after nearly a...

NIST Collaboration Heats Up Exotic Topological Insulators

October 31, 2016

Fashion is changing in the avant-garde world of next-generation computer component materials. Traditional semiconductors like silicon are releasing their last...

Training Offered by Standards Developing Organizations

American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Committee on Education ANSI offers standards-related training programs for both newcomers and...

BioMEMS Project

Project Leader: Darwin R. Reyes Research Goals Development of microfluidic devices with electronic manipulation and measurement tools for...

ICSP Conformity Assessment Work Group (CAWG) Charter

Purpose Conformity Assessment has become increasingly important to federal agencies. Federal agency programs have been and are increasingly...

NIST HER2 Genomic DNA Standard Reference Material, SRM® 2373

NIST Standard Reference Material SRM ® 2373 was developed to improve the measurements of the HER2 gene amplification in DNA samples. SRM ® 2373 consists of

Five Universities Receive NIST Funding to Develop Standards Curricula

October 27, 2016

The U.S. Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded five grants totaling more than $350,000 to support standards...

Retinal Pigment Epithelium on nanofiber scaffold

New Public-Private Partnership to Develop Standards for Regenerative Medicine

October 26, 2016

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has partnered with the Standards Coordinating Body for Gene, Cell and Regenerative Medicines and Cell-based...

Exoskeleton Technical Interchange Meeting

Thu, Jan 26 - Fri, Jan 27 2017

This meeting is co-hosted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the U.S. Army NSRDEC. The

Finding Proposed and In Force Regulations

Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) (link is external)The CFR is the codification of final rules published in the Federal Register by the...

Drawing of a spiral delay line heater element, designed with the CNST Nanolithography Toolbox software

New Nanoscale Design Software Available Online

October 21, 2016

A recently developed CNST software package that designs difficult-to-draw nanoscale shapes, including spirals, S-bends, and tapered structures is now available...

Print Your Own NIST Postcards

October 26, 2016

Twelve postcards showcasing NIST historic photos are now available to download from the NIST Digital Archives. The postcards are in six PDF files. Each file...

Conformity Assessment Basics

Conformity assessment enables buyers, sellers, consumers, and regulators to have confidence that products sourced in global market meet...

Move Over, Lasers: Scientists Can Now Create Holograms from Neutrons, Too

October 20, 2016

For the first time, a team including scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have used neutron beams to create holograms of...

National Aviation History Month: NIST Tests Airplane Wheels

November 23, 2016

During WWI airplanes landed on wheels much the same as those found on a bicycle. Because these wheels were subjected to severe stresses when landing on rough...

National Aviation History Month: NIST Chemist Wins Air Races

November 16, 2016

In 1927 chemist Johanna Busse became the first female section chief at NIST when she was appointed to head the Thermometry section. Busse was also a licensed...

National Aviation History Month: Earth Inductor Compass

November 9, 2016

In 1922 NIST physicists Lyman Briggs and Paul Heyl were awarded the Magellan Medal from the American Philosophical Society for their model of an Earth Inductor...

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