Chemical thermodynamics & chemical properties

News and Updates

Cheryle Beuning poses in front of scientific equipment, wearing safety goggles.

Spotlight: Understanding the Chemical Compounds in Cannabis

February 16, 2021

Keeping you safe with cutting-edge forensic science — NIST postdoctoral researcher Cheryle Beuning is part of a joint effort with the University of Colorado

Room Temperature Conversion of CO₂ to CO: A New Way to Synthesize Hydrocarbons

November 2, 2020

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their colleagues have demonstrated a room-temperature method that could

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

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

Electric-acoustic spectroscopy for intermolecular interactions in solution

NIST’s Material Measurement Laboratory and Communications Technology Laboratory are developing a new spectroscopy for intermolecular interactions. The team is

Autonomous Materials Science

We use autonomous experimentation (the merger of automated synthesis, characterization, AI-driven decision-making) to elucidate the role of composition

Identification, Suitability Testing, and Property Determination from Untargeted Measurements

Many polymeric fluids, including biotherapeutics and fuels, can have unusual physical behavior in solutions, and many applications require detailed knowledge of

Publications

Laser-based temperature control to study the roles of entropy and enthalpy in polymer-nanopore interactions

April 21, 2021

Author(s)

Christopher Angevine, Joseph W. Robertson, Amala Dass, Joseph E. Reiner

Good reporting practice for thermophysical and thermochemical property measurements (IUPAC Technical Report)

April 16, 2021

Author(s)

Ala Bazyleva, Jens Abildskov, Andre Anderko, Olivier Baudouin, Yury Chernyak, Jean-Charles de Hemptinne, Vladimir Diky, Ralf Dohrn, J. R. Elliott, Johan Jacquemin, Jean-Noel Jaubert, Kevin Joback, Ursula Kattner, Georgios Kontogeorgis, Herbert Loria, Paul M. Mathias, John O'Connell, Wolffram Schroer, G. J. Smith, Ana Soto, Shu Wang, Ronald D. Weir

Scientific projects frequently involve measurements of thermophysical, thermochemical, and other related properties of chemical compounds and materials. These

Evaluation of Experimental and Predicted Vapor-Liquid Equilibrium Data for Systems Relevant to Biomass Fast Pyrolysis and Catalytic Upgrading

March 29, 2021

Author(s)

Yauheni Paulechka, Vladimir Diky, Abhijit Dutta

The experimental vapor-liquid equilibrium (VLE) data for the binaries relevant to the catalytic fast pyrolysis of biomass have been collected and analyzed using

DART-MS Spectral Similarity of Infrared Thermally Desorbed Solid Particulate and Solution Cast Propellant Samples

March 4, 2021

Author(s)

Thomas Forbes, John Gillen

Security and forensic applications employ test and reference materials to develop, calibrate, and validate analytical instrumentation such as mass spectrometry

Tools and Instruments

Material Analysis Using Neutron Depth Profiling

Light elements such as helium, lithium, boron, and nitrogen are essential constituents in materials that enable energy technologies; lithium ion batteries

Awards

Mark McLinden Honored by Institute of Refrigeration

Dr. McLinden is cited for “applying state-of-the-art thermodynamic property tools to address a key challenge facing the industry, namely the