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Physical Measurement Laboratory / Microsystems and Nanotechnology Division

Biophysical and Biomedical Measurement Group

Projects/Programs

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Optofluidic device

Dynamic Nanoflow Metrology

Ongoing
Current work, within the NIST on a Chip Program, includes developing microfluidic systems that improve the accuracy of flow measurements, which are fundamental
modular measurement platform

Electronic Biophysical Measurements

Ongoing
Chipscale electronic devices such as field-effect transistors (FETs) are being developed for biochemical applications ranging from clinical diagnostics to
molecular physiology illustration

Molecular Physiology

Ongoing
The natural world is a magnificent place with observable, via measurement and inference, physical structures spanning at least 43 orders of magnitude in space
pumpless body cube with four tissues

Multi-Organ Microphysiological Systems

Ongoing
Ninety percent of clinical trials fail because new drugs are often not effective or turn out to be more toxic than estimated with data from animal trials. We
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Nanostructures for Energy Conversion

Completed
Electrochemical systems containing nanostructured materials are increasingly being incorporated into devices for efficiently harvesting, storing, and converting
Optofluidic chip

Optofluidic Cytometry

Ongoing
This NIST-wide collaborative project aims to improve biotechnology and medical diagnostics by increasing the resolution and precision of measurements of cells
golden aspect ratio illustration

Sensing, Transport, and Simulation

Ongoing
The transport of particles through a region of space acquires an imprint of local information that enables sensing, such as detecting the presence of a
nanopore event

Single-molecule biosensors

Ongoing
Nanopores offer the potential to study a wide range of protein-related phenomena that includes unfolding kinetics, differences in unfolding pathways, protein