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Industry Impacts

Advanced Manufacturing and Material Measurements

NIST has partnered with the U.S. manufacturing sector for more than a century and has a proven track record of delivering useful tools and technical assistance to existing manufacturers and aspiring start-ups.

Rendering of a new Honeywell plant

Automotive Refrigerant Design

the NIST monoclonal antibody

Benchmarks for Biologic Drugs

Chemical Manufacturing Plant

Chemical Manufacturing Process Design

Scientist puts material down below a tube. Background: computer screen

Helmet Materials for Head Health

Image of a radiation pressure power meter

High-Power Lasers for Manufacturing

Jeremy Marvel adjusts robotic arm

Human-Robot Collaboration

SEMPA image showing the magnetization of an unpatterned region of Ta/CoFeB.

Imaging for Magnetic Data Storage Designs

Test Bed

Industrial Control Systems Cybersecurity

Two women and a man outfit another man with an exosuit.

Innovation in Exoskeletons

Researchers at the NIST Center Lightweighting Lab

Lightweight Materials for Automobiles

Two men stand behind a piece of metal on a custom tripod

Manufacturing Large Objects

A man in a hardhat standing on top of the million-pound weight stack with a person standing at the bottom.

Massive Forces for Heavy Industry

Illustrative subset of parameterized shapes available for nanoscale photonic, electronic, mechanic, fluidic, and other applications.

Nanolithography Design Tools

High-speed amplified probe

Public-Private Partnerships for Semiconductor Research

Photo of scientists checking vaccine temperatures.

Reliable Vaccine Storage

multicolor image of an intel 2nd generation core microprocessor

Semiconductor Thin Film Design Optimization