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NIST’s Material Measurement Laboratory and Physical Measurement Laboratory are developing a first-of-kind X-ray testbed for operando monitoring of catalytic
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Overview Capture of carbon dioxide from the air (direct air capture; DAC) combined with energy efficiency and carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS)
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This study examines the time evolution of silica/water clusters where the formation of a gel network from unitary silica particles is interrupted by a simple
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We implemented a Bayesian-statistics approach for subtraction of incoherent scattering from neutron total-scattering data. In this approach, the estimated
LEAP 4000X Si/HR Imaging time-of-flight mass spectrometer and field ion microscope. Can deliver 3-D, isotopically- and chemically- resolved images Sub-nanometer
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A TESCAN MIRA3 Schottky field-emission scanning electron microscope with 4 30 mm 2 silicon x-ray drift detectors which has been automated for particle and
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