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Photograph of the Fischione Model 1040 NanoMill.

NanoFab Tool: Fischione Model 1040 NanoMill Ion Mill

The Fischione Model 1040 NanoMill is a low-energy, low-angle argon ion milling instrument used for preparing ultra-thin, high-quality transmission electron

NIST Cyber-Physical Systems Public Working Group Kickoff Webinar

Mon, Jun 30 2014

What are Cyber-Physical Systems or CPS? Is a CPS any engineered system with a microprocessor? Do all CPS need to be

Accelerating Green Technology Transfer to Impact American Lives

June 17, 2014

White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Blog Post by Colleen V. Chien, senior advisor to the Chief Technology Officer, Intellectual Property and...

New Members Appointed to Baldrige Advisory Board

June 16, 2014

Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker recently reappointed Rulon Stacey as chair of the Baldrige Program's Board of Overseers. She also appointed three new...

New Report Addresses International Disaster Resilience for U.S. and Partner Countries

June 17, 2014

While national security efforts seek to prevent terrorist attacks, the United States and partner countries should also prepare to work together to mitigate the...

NIST to Establish New Centers of Excellence for Work in Forensics, Disaster Resilience

June 13, 2014

Officials at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have announced plans to establish two new research Centers of Excellence to work with...

NIST Materials Resource Registry

Materials Resource Registry allows for the registration of materials resources, bridging the gap between existing resources, software and repositories and end

The Internet's Next Big Idea: Connecting People, Information, and Things

June 11, 2014

Blog by Chris Greer, Senior Executive for Cyber-Physical Systems at the National Institute of Standards and Technology In the early 1990s, a Web page consisted...

NIST-MGI Workshop on the First Principles Phase Stability Repository

Thu, Aug 7 - Fri, Aug 8 2014

To populate the FPPS Repository Motivation: To create a repository for First Principles Phase Diagram, (FPPD)

High school student Jessica Young checking the packing density of random aggregates of plastic spheres in a cylinder.

Snowballs to Soot: The Clumping Density of Many Things Seems to Be a Standard

June 10, 2014

Particles of soot floating through the air and comets hurtling through space have at least one thing in common: 0.36. That, reports a research group at the...

Two NIST Researchers Honored with Flemming Awards

June 9, 2014

Two researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are among 12 federal employees being honored today* as recipients of the 2013...

NIST Workshop on Standards for the Advancement of Optical Medical Imaging

Tue, Aug 26 - Wed, Aug 27 2014

The NIST Workshop on Standards for the Advancement of Medical Imaging is intended to provide a forum for a broad cross

NanoFab Tool: Specialty Coating Systems PDS 2010 Parylene Deposition System

The Specialty Coating Systems PDS 2010 parylene deposition system provides users with reliable and repeatable conformal parylene coatings ranging from 75

Additive Manufacturing Research Center (AMRC)

The Metal Additive Manufacturing (AM) Research Facility is now called the Additive Manufacturing Research Center (AMRC). Additive manufacturing gives U.S

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Wildland-Urban Interface Fires

NIST with US Forest Service (USFS) have invested in the development of instrument packages and measurement science to enable the successful scientific use of

Cone Calorimeter

In the late 1970s and early 1980s the fire community was pushing for reliable bench-scale tools to measure material flammability based on heat release rate. A

NanoFab Tool: Plasma-Therm Versaline High Density Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition (HD-PECVD)

The Plasma-Therm Versaline high density plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (HD-PECVD) system uses an inductively coupled plasma to remotely ionize

NanoFab Tool: Atomic Layer Deposition

The Oxford FlexAL atomic layer deposition (ALD) system supports plasma and thermal ALD coating processes with precise ultrathin and pinhole free films. The

NanoFab Tool: Denton Vacuum Discovery 550 Sputtering System B104 Right

The Denton Vacuum Discovery 550 sputtering system has two direct current (DC) and two radio frequency (RF) sputtering guns which bombard targets, causing atoms

NanoFab Tool: Denton Vacuum Discovery 550 Sputtering System B104 Left

The Denton Vacuum Discovery 550 sputtering system has two direct current (DC) and two radio frequency (RF) sputtering guns which bombard targets, causing atoms

Photograph of the Denton Vacuum Infinity 22 evaporator.

NanoFab Tool: Denton Vacuum Infinity 22 Electron Beam Evaporator

The Denton Vacuum Infinity 22 electron beam evaporator vapor deposits thin films and is capable of loading up to six source materials for deposition. The

NanoFab Tool: Denton Vacuum Infinity 22 Electron Beam and Thermal Evaporator

The Denton Vacuum Infinity 22 dual source evaporator uses a choice of either electron beam evaporation or resistive heating to vapor deposit thin films

Lithium Sulfur: A Battery Revolution on the Cheap?

June 3, 2014

Whip together an industrial waste product and a bit of plastic and you might have the recipe for the next revolution in battery technology. Scientists from the...

All-Natural Mixture Yields Promising Fire Retardant

June 3, 2014

What sounds like fixings for a wizard's potion—a dash of clay, a dab of fiber from crab shells, and a dollop of DNA—actually are the ingredients of promising...

NIST: Performance of Facial Recognition Software Continues to Improve

June 3, 2014

Who is that stranger in your social media photo? A click on the face reveals the name in seconds, almost as soon as you can identify your best friend. While...

Standard Firebrand Generator

This apparatus, developed at EL, has been constructed to generate a controlled and repeatable size and mass distribution of glowing firebrands. The purpose of

Proposed Risk Management Guidelines Aim to Bolster Security of Federal ICT Supply Chains

June 3, 2014

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has published a second public draft of Supply Chain Risk Management Practices for Federal Information...

Robotics Pioneer Joins NIST Advisory Committee

June 3, 2014

Rodney Brooks, founder, chairman and chief technology officer of Rethink Robotics, Inc., has joined the Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology (VCAT), the...

First, Put a Stake in the Ground

April 2014 For over 20 years, I have had the privilege of learning from role-model organizations and outstanding keynote speakers at the...

President's Council Recommends Building on the Baldrige Award for U.S. Health Care

June 2, 2014

On May 29, the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) released a report to President Obama, Better Health Care and Lower Costs...

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