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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

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Spotlight: Ashlee Aiello and the Challenge of Cotton

September 28, 2021

The touch, the porosity of cotton, the biopolymer of postdoctoral associate Ashlee Aiello’s life. Cotton is the most abundant biopolymer (naturally produced

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

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)

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

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

Ongoing

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

Understanding Confined Fluids using Theory, Simulation, and Data-Driven Methods

Ongoing

Theory and simulation are used to advance our understanding of pure and multicomponent fluids confined in tight spaces, such as the pores of a zeolite, metal

Publications

Atomic Origin of the Autocatalytic Reduction of Monoclinic CuO in a Hydrogen Atmosphere

September 27, 2021

Author(s)

Xianhu Sun, Dongxiang Wu, Wenhui Zhu, Xiaobo Chen, Renu Sharma, Judith Yang, Guangwen Zhou

Reducibility is a prerequisite for the use of bulk metal oxides in chemical transformation 17 involving redox reactions but probing microscopic processes of

Comparative Operando XPS and SEM Spatiotemporal Potential Mapping of Ionic Liquid Polarization in a Coplanar Electrochemical Device

September 21, 2021

Author(s)

Andrei Kolmakov, Evgheni Strelcov

The polarization response of a co-planar electrochemical capacitor covered with an ionic liquid as the electrolyte has been examined by a combination of two

Total protein quantitation using the bicinchoninic acid (BCA) assay and gradient elution moving boundary electrophoresis (GEMBE)

September 8, 2021

Author(s)

Jason Kralj, Matt S. Munson, David J. Ross

We investigated using gradient elution moving boundary electrophoresis (GEMBE) and capacitively- coupled contactless conductivity detection (C4D) to assay total

Recommendation system to predict missing adsorption properties of nanoporous materials

September 7, 2021

Author(s)

Arni Sturluson, Ali Raza, Grant McConachie, Daniel Siderius, Xaioli Fern, Cory Simon

Nanoporous materials (NPMs) selectively adsorb and concentrate gases into their pores and thus could be used to store, capture, and sense many different gases