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

Ongoing

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

Measuring Intermolecular Interactions with Electro-Acoustic Spectroscopy

Ongoing

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

Autonomous Materials Science

Ongoing

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

The NIST Chemistry Webbook

Ongoing

The NIST Chemistry WebBook is a site on the Internet (http://webbook.nist.gov/) that provides convenient access to a variety of physical and chemical property

Publications

Thermodynamically stable colloidal solids: interfacial thermodynamics from the particle size distribution

February 3, 2022

Author(s)

Andrew Nelson, Lawrence Henry Friedman

True thermodynamic stability of a solid colloidal dispersion is generally unexpected, so much so that a thorough experimental validation of proposed stable

Digitization of Adsorption Isotherms from "The Thermodynamics and Hysteresis of Adsorption"

December 16, 2021

Author(s)

Daniel Siderius

Sorption isotherms collected from tables in the seminal dissertation, "The Thermodynamics and Hysteresis of Adsorption" by A. J. Brown, have been digitized and

Equations of State for the Thermodynamic Properties of Three Isomeric Hexanes: 3-Methylpentane, 2,2-Dimethylbutane, and 2,3-Dimethylbutane

November 12, 2021

Author(s)

Eric W. Lemmon, Kehui Gao, Jiangtao Wu

Equations of state for three isomeric hexanes, 3-methylpentane, 2,2-dimethylbutane, and 2,3- dimethylbutane, have been developed, which are based on

Quantum-Based Photonic Sensors for Pressure, Vacuum, and Temperature Measurements: A Vison of the Future with NIST on a Chip

September 17, 2021

Author(s)

Jay H. Hendricks, Zeeshan Ahmed, Daniel Barker, Kevin O. Douglass, Stephen Eckel, James A. Fedchak, Nikolai Klimov, Jacob Edmond Ricker, Julia Scherschligt

The NIST on a Chip (NOAC) program's central idea is the idea that measurement technology can be developed to enable metrology to be performed "outside the

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