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Theory and Modeling of Materials for Renewable Energy

Renewable energy sources such as solar energy are attractive alternatives to fossil fuels because of their abundant supply and pollution-free power generation

SEM of nano-contacts used to interrogate grains and grain boundaries

Nanoscale Functional and Structural Characterization of Thin-Film Inorganic Solar Cells

Large-scale implementation of solar power generation requires photovoltaic (PV) devices with efficiency-to-cost ratios better than existing silicon-based solar

Measurement Science and Standards in Forensics Firearms Analysis Conference

July 9, 2012

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in collaboration with The Association of Firearm and Tool Mark Examiners (AFTE) and the Scientific...

Packaging and Labeling

Tue, Apr 9 - Thu, Apr 11 2013

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Office of Weights and Measures will hold a seminar for industry

Comments Sought on New Security Publications

August 3, 2007

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released three draft Special Publications (SP) documents for public comment. Revision 1, Wireless...

Improved NIST SRM Aids Lead Poisoning Detection

August 3, 2007

Lead in goat blood might not be on the top of your shopping list, but for U.S. medical personnel who each year perform more than 2 million human blood...

New Tools to Help Configure Secure Operating Systems

August 3, 2007

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is making available "virtual machine images" of secure configurations of the Microsoft Windows XP and...

Changing the Rings: A Key Finding for Magnetics Design

August 3, 2007

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST) have done the first theoretical...

Neutrons Reveal Quantum Order in Solid-State System

August 3, 2007

It's a truism that the world looks very different through the eyes of quantum mechanics. In a new paper appearing in Science, an international team of...

NIST Fundamentals of Uncertainty Analysis Short Course

Tue, Oct 29 - Thu, Oct 31 2013

The NIST Fundamentals of Uncertainty Analysis Short Course covers the propagation of measurement uncertainty using the

Evolution of Flat-histogram Monte Carlo Simulation

NIST Standard Reference Simulation Website

NIST Standard Reference Database 173 Last Update to Data Content: September 2024 DOI: https://doi.org/10.18434/T4M88Q The Standard Reference Simulation Website

Manufacturing Day Slated for Oct. 5, 2012

July 2, 2012

Additional Contact: Patricia Lee Fabricators & Manufacturers Association Intl. 815-227-8286 Rockford, Ill.,– To highlight the importance of manufacturing to the...

Cryptographic Key Management Workshop 2012

Mon, Sep 10 - Tue, Sep 11 2012

NIST conducted a two-day Key Management Workshop on September 10-11. The subject of the workshop was the technical and

Shaffique Adam Receives Singapore National Research Foundation Fellowship

June 27, 2012

Shaffique Adam, an NRC Postdoctoral Research Associate in the NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, has been awarded a 2012 Singapore National...

Innovation Results from Intelligent Risk Taking and a Supportive Environment

May 2012 I = IR + SE Like many people in many companies and organizations, I have been thinking a lot about innovation lately. In my case...

NIST Announces Up to $3M in Funding for Three New Manufacturing Extension Partnership Centers

June 27, 2012

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is soliciting proposals to establish three new Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP)...

Novel Clay-based Coating May Point the Way to New Generation of Green Flame Retardants

June 27, 2012

In searching for better flame retardants for home furnishings—a large source of fuel in house fires—National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)...

Hark! Group Demonstrates First Heralded Single Photon Source Made from Silicon

June 27, 2012

In an important step towards more practical quantum information processing, researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the...

A hawksbill sea turtle swims above a coral reef in waters off the British Virgin Islands.

Pollutants Could Pose Health Risks for Five Sea Turtle Species

June 27, 2012

Researchers at the Hollings Marine Laboratory (HML) and four partner organizations have measured for the first time concentrations of 13 perfluoroalkyl...

NIST Goes the Distance for the Olympics

June 27, 2012

In yet another Olympian feat of measurement, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently calibrated a tape that will be...

illustration of pseudomagnetic fields that confine grahene's electrons and create quntized quantum dot-like energy levels

'Tuning' Graphene Drums Might Turn Conductors to Semiconductors

June 27, 2012

Tightening or relaxing the tension on a drumhead will change the way the drum sounds. The same goes for drumheads made from graphene, only instead of changing...

Clean Energy Alliance and the Manufacturing Extension Partnership Announce New Collaboration

June 25, 2012

Golden, Colo. – Clean Energy Alliance, Inc. (CEA), the national association of clean energy business incubators, and the Hollings Manufacturing Extension...

Graphene Drumheads Tuned to Make Quantum Dots

June 21, 2012

Tightening or relaxing the tension on a drumhead will change the way the drum sounds. The same goes for drumheads made from graphene, only instead of changing...

Energy and Commerce Departments Announce New Centers for Building Operations Excellence

June 19, 2012

Today, the U.S. Department of Energy and U.S. Department of Commerce announced selections for three Centers for Building Operations Excellence that will receive...

First NIST Workshop on Macromolecular Separations-by-Design

Wed, Oct 10 - Thu, Oct 11 2012

The First NIST Workshop on Macromolecular Separations-by-Design will bring together scientists and engineers from

First Observation of the Hall Effect in a Bose-Einstein Condensate

June 19, 2012

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) researchers have observed for the first time the Hall effect in a gas of ultracold atoms. The Hall effect...

NIST: Creating Jobs with Innovation

June 15, 2012

Guest blog post by Patrick Gallagher, Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology and Director, National Institute of Standards and Technology We...

NIST Effort Could Improve High-Tech Medical Scanners

June 12, 2012

A powerful color-based imaging technique is making the jump from remote sensing to the operating room—and a team of scientists* at the National Institute of...

NIST Launches New Website to Educate Industry About Alternatives to Mercury Thermometers

June 12, 2012

As part of a larger effort to reduce the amount of mercury, a potent neurotoxin, in the environment, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)...

July 9 Ohio Workshop Seeks Ideas on Design of National Network for Manufacturing Innovation

June 12, 2012

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and partner organizations of the federal interagency Advanced Manufacturing National Program Office...

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