Chemical engineering & processing

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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

Projects and Programs

NCNR DAC and CCUS efforts

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

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

Effect of Partial Charge Calculation Method on Adsorption Thermodynamics in Metal-organic Frameworks

In classical molecular simulations, electrostatic contributions to the potential energy are typically accounted for by assigning partial charges to some or all

Publications

Probing Electrified Liquid-Solid Interfaces with Scanning Electron Microscopy

December 2, 2020

Author(s)

Hongxuan Guo, Alexander Yulaev, Evgheni Strelcov, Alexander Tselev, Christopher M. Arble, Andras Vladar, John S. Villarrubia, Andrei A. Kolmakov

The mean free path of secondary electrons in aqueous solutions is on the order of a nanometer, making them a suitable probe of ultrathin electrical double

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