Chemical engineering & processing

News and Updates

NIST’s NanoFab Reopens its Doors to Universities, Industry, and Research Institutions

April 3, 2023

In the Lilliputian world of nanofabrication, where billions of microscopic circuit elements are sculpted or imprinted on a fingernail-sized silicon chip

This Simple Material Could Scrub Carbon Dioxide From Power Plant Smokestacks

November 2, 2022

An easily synthesized chemical filter could stop the greenhouse gas from reaching the atmosphere.

A woman (Callie Higgins) stands in front of a piece of photopolymerization equipment.

NIST’s Callie Higgins Wins Service to America Medal

October 28, 2021

Callie I. Higgins, a materials research engineer at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), has won the Samuel J. Heyman Service to America

Projects and Programs

NCNR DAC and CCUS efforts

Ongoing

Overview Capture of carbon dioxide from the air (direct air capture; DAC) combined with energy efficiency and carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS)

Thermodynamics of Enzyme-catalyzed Reactions

Ongoing

To develop the thermodynamic data and methodology required for effective bioprocess engineering.

Polymer Formulations

Completed

Our goal is to develop combinatorial and high-throughput measurement approaches for rapid characterization of the structure and phase behavior of multicomponent

Materials Extrusion Additive Manufacturing

Polymer Additive Manufacturing and Rheology

Ongoing

The manufacture of polymeric materials from their raw form into their final useful product occurs under highly non-equilibrium conditions where temperature and

Publications

Investigation of Cure Kinetics of Advanced Epoxy Molding Compound Using Dynamic Heating Scan: An Overlooked Second Reaction

August 3, 2023

Author(s)

Ran Tao, Sukrut Prashant Phansalkar, Aaron M. Forster, Bongtae Han

Cure kinetics of epoxy molding compounds (EMCs) is a fundamental material property that affects the molding process of semiconductor chips and final package

Prediction of Sustainable Aviation Fuel Properties for Liquid Hydrocarbons from Hydrotreating Biomass Catalytic Fast Pyrolysis Derived Organic Intermediates

April 11, 2023

Author(s)

Suphat Watanasiri, Kristiina Iisa, Eugene Paulechka, Earl Christensen, Chris Muzny, Abhijit Dutta

Catalytic fast pyrolysis (CFP) of wood, woody residues, and agricultural waste has the potential to produce organic liquid intermediates that can be

Superancillary Equations for Nonpolar Pure Fluids Modeled with the PC-SAFT Equation of State

January 23, 2023

Author(s)

Ian Bell, Ulrich Deiters

Superancillary equations are presented for the PC-SAFT equation of state of Gross and Sadowski for nonpolar pure fluids. The equations cover the range of a

Linking viscosity to equation of state using residual entropy scaling theory

October 13, 2022

Author(s)

Xiaoxian Yang, Xiong Xiao, Monika Thol, Markus Richter, Ian Bell

In our previous work, a residual entropy scaling (RES) approach was developed to link viscosity to residual entropy (a thermodynamic property calculated with an