Chemical engineering & processing

News and Updates

Vapor-Liquid Equilibria Article- the #1 Most Downloaded paper from the Journal of Chemical & Engineering Data

June 25, 2020

A paper from members of the Applied Chemicals and Materials Division has 762 downloads from the Journal of Chemical & Engineering Data in the last 30 days

American Chemical Society highlights NIST paper with Editor’s Choice Award

June 26, 2019

A recent manuscript published in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels was selected for the Editor’s Choice Award, which is given to just one paper every day across

Small Wonder

September 25, 2017

NIST helps semiconductor manufacturers—who are under continual pressure to make smaller, faster computer chips—reduce the time required to develop new

Climate-Friendlier Air Conditioning Chemicals Hard to Find, Study Shows

February 23, 2017

In response to a recently published study in Nature Communications about options for low-global-warming-potential refrigerants from NIST, Inside Climate News

Projects and Programs

Thermodynamics of Enzyme-catalyzed Reactions

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

zCOMPLETED - Polymer Formulations

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

Additive manufacturing (AM) is a process for fabricating parts directly from 3-D digital models which has tremendous potential for producing high-value, complex

Bioelectronic Sensors for Tissue/Organ-on-a-Chip Systems

The use of tissue/organ-on-a-chip systems is limited to endpoint and destructive measurements. Integration of electronic elements in these systems have proven

Publications

High-density polyethylene - an inert additive with stabilizing effects on organic field-effect transistors

September 11, 2020

Author(s)

Alberto Scaccabarozzi, James Basham, Liyang Yu, Paul Westcott, Weimin Zhang, Aram Amassian, Iain McCulloch, Mario Caironi, David J. Gundlach, Natalie Stingelin

Organic electronics technologies have attracted considerable interest over the last decades and have become promising alternatives to conventional, inorganic

Grain growth and superconductivity of rhenium electrodeposited from water-in-salt electrolytes

February 25, 2020

Author(s)

William Sides, Ehsan Hassani, David P. Pappas, Yang Hu, Tae-Sick Oh, Qiang Huang

The relationship between superconductivity and the film preparation conditions, i.e., the thickness and annealing process, in electrodeposited rhenium (Re)

High-Throughput Exploration of Lithium-Alloy Protection Layers for High-Performance Lithium-Metal Batteries

February 13, 2020

Author(s)

Jamie L. Weaver, Kedar Manandhar, Yaoyu Ren, Drew Stasak, Huilong Hou, Dylan Kirsch, Suchismita Sarker, Apurva Mehta, Saydul Sardar, Muye Xiao, Carlos Le?n, Gus Hart, Takeshi Sunaoshi, John Lemmon, Ichiro Takeuchi

To realize high specific capacity Li-metal batteries, a protection layer for the Li-metal anode is needed. We are carrying out combinatorial screening of Li

Covariance-based uncertainty analysis of reference equations of state

January 6, 2020

Author(s)

Howard Cheung, Jerome Frutiger, Ian H. Bell, Jens Abildskov, Gurkan Sin, Shengwei Wang

This work presents a detailed methodology for uncertainty analysis applied to a reference equation of state (EOS) based on Helmholtz energy. With increasing