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Topological Insulators

The concept of topological invariants in topological quantum materials represent a new way to classify materials. The emergent field of topological quantum

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NIST Researchers Develop More Accurate Formula for Measuring Particle Concentration

August 20, 2025

The new method will be useful in various fields, including nanomedicine, food science, environmental science and advanced manufacturing.

AM Bench 2025 Standards Plenary Speakers and Panelists

AM Bench 2025 is holding an embedded workshop on AM standards on Thursday, November 20. This workshop will include the following Plenary...

AM Bench 2025 Conference Plenary Presentations

In addition to plenary presentations by the AM Bench measurement teams, the following exciting AM Bench Plenaries are scheduled: Monday...

SUSHI@NIST: Rolling Next-Generation Secure Hardware into Standards

Wed, Jan 28 2026

Enhancing Hardware Security for the Future of National Defense and Emerging Technologies In an era of geopolitical

Graphene

The interest in using graphene as an electronic material arises in large part from the high speed with which electrons move through the material — approximately

Scanning Probe Metrology

Summary Underlying all information transfer and computation involves the movement and detection of electrons, which are the subatomic...

Benchmark Results for SPC/E Water

The purpose of these pages is to provide some explicit results from Monte Carlo simulations for SPC/E Water. It is intended to provide...

Siamak Sattar Receives the NIBS 2025 Innovator Award

NIST, FEMA, ATC, and STPI were awarded in recognition of their leadership and technical contributions to develop the NIST SP-1254 report to Congress titled “Recommended Options for Improving the Built Environment for Post-Earthquake Re-occupancy and...

Siamak Sattar and Dustin Cook Were Awarded the SEAOC Structural Engineering Excellence Award

Drs. Sattar and Cook were awarded in recognition of their leadership and technical contributions to a six-year project on benchmarking evaluation methodologies for existing reinforced concrete buildings.

NCAL: Materials Testing 2.0

Materials Testing 2.0 represents a fundamental shift in how we calibrate material models used in engineering. It leverages modern full-field optical strain

ACMD Seminar: High-Order Numerical Methods for Integro-differential Equations in Biological Field Effect Transistors

Jack Deye Undergraduate Researcher, Dept. of Mathematics, UCLA Tuesday, Aug 26, 2025, 3:00-4:00 PM ET (1:00-2:00 PM MT) A video of this talk...

NIST Finalizes ‘Lightweight Cryptography’ Standard to Protect Small Devices

August 13, 2025

Four related algorithms are now ready for use to protect data created and transmitted by the Internet of Things and other electronics.

NIST Releases Test Tools to Accelerate Adoption of Emerging Route Leak Mitigation Standards

August 11, 2025

NIST has released NIST BGP RPKI IO (BRIO) - an open-source test tool and data sets to facilitate testing and experimentation with emerging Border Gateway...

Novel Hardware for Alternative Computing

Magnetic tunnel junctions Magnetic tunnel junctions (see Fig. 1) consist of two thin films of a ferromagnetic material separated by a few...

Quantum anomalous Hall effect

The SI realization of the ohm is based on the quantum Hall effect, which requires a magnetic field of several Tesla. This large magnetic...

STRBase Web Resource Update

July 1, 2025

A significant update was undertaken to modernize STRBase and make it more user-friendly. This project aimed to ensure that the website remains a relevant and...

Release of RM 8043 - Forensic DNA Resource Samples

February 19, 2026

RM 8043 contains eight samples - including three DNA mixtures, as well as two samples degraded by UV light RM 8043 will retain the same sample format as the...

NIST Researchers Demonstrate that Superconducting Neural Networks Can Learn on Their Own

August 18, 2025

Using detailed simulations, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their collaborators have demonstrated that a class of...

2025 - ACS Fellow---Karen Phinney

The American Chemical Society (ACS) Fellows Program recognizes ACS members for "their outstanding achievements in and contributions to the science and the profession and for their equally exemplary service to the Society."

Terri McAllister Receives the ASCE Mujumdar Resilience Award

Dr. McAllister is being recognized for her contributions to the advancement of resilience.

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Isotope Metallomics Quality Assurance Program (IMQAP) Consortium

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is establishing the Isotope Metallomics Quality Assurance Program (IMQAP) Consortium. This initiative

ACMD Seminar: The Power of Computational Imaging: From Theory to Application

Selin Aslan Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Koç University Tuesday, August 5, 2025, 3:00-4:00 PM ET (1:00-2:00 PM MT)...

Integrating Mass Spectrometry Techniques into Radionuclide Metrology

NIST is working to strengthen its expertise in activity measurements with additional measurement techniques. As many of its calibration and reference material

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NCAL: Tension-Compression Testing

We have developed a fully-instrumented tension-compression testing apparatus to measure the evolution of the Bauschinger Effect (tension-compression yield

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Basic Metrology: Measurement and Evaluation of Nuclear Data

Nearly every measurement or calculation in nuclear science relies on nuclear data to obtain a final result. Decay corrections for radioactivity measurements

NIST Team Develops Technique to Stabilize the Phase of Weak Light Signals in Quantum Network

July 18, 2025

Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have taken a crucial step forward in building a large-scale quantum communications...

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Shaping the Future of Connectivity: NIST CTL Builds on IEEE 3388

July 23, 2025

The National Institute of Standards and Technology Communications Technology Laboratory (NIST CTL) Industrial Wireless Systems (IWS) Team is advancing the next...

NIST Guidelines Can Help Organizations Detect Face Photo Morphs, Deter Identity Fraud

August 18, 2025

Face morphing software, which combines photos of different people into a single image, is being used to commit identity fraud.

Applied Single-Electron Metrology

Much of metrology relies on or would benefit from precision counting. Time and frequency standards, length, and electrical standards all rely on counting

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