This project studies the collapse performance of concrete columns that do not meet the stringent reinforcement requirements for special columns defined by ACI...
We are developing instrumentation, standards artifacts, and measurement protocols to characterize appearance attributes including color, texture, and gloss...
A Paradigm Shift in Addressing Antimicrobial Resistance: Measuring the Transition Between Antibiotic Susceptibility and Resistance With the exception of our...
Most security vulnerabilities arise from flaws in software implementation, and are difficult to discover because they are often triggered by rarely used parts...
The main objective in this project is to implement a flexible and programmable research testbed that can support deployment of a wide ranging sensory device...
Building systems commissioning processes applied at the design phase and throughout the building life cycle have been shown to effectively improve performance...
The Performance-based Engineering Research for Multi-hazards (PERFORM) Structural Testbed will enable large-scale research on the performance of structures...
In response to recent large-scale disasters such as the World Trade Center, Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Sandy, and the Tuscaloosa and Joplin tornadoes, the...
The cooling of atoms to microkelvin temperatures using lasers is currently enabling a new generation of precision instruments that take advantage of the long...
NIST is developing a portal to enable researchers to mine high-quality proteomic data from phylogenetically diverse species, to identify advantageous...
Initially the Comparative Mammalian Proteome Aggregator Resource (CoMPARe) Program will generate proteomic data from sera from 25 different species that...
Photoluminescent silicon nanoparticles have a bright and stable fluorescence and are promising candidates for use in bio-imaging, cell staining and drug...
We are undertaking a comparison of the relative performance of ANSI N42.46 and IEC 62523 consensus standards for x-ray cargo and vehicle screening. By...
NIST participated in a recent international comparison of standards for absorbed dose to water for 60 Co gamma radiation at radiation-processing dose levels...
A Complex System is any structure, process, organization, or organism characterized by a large number of interconnected components whose micro-interactions...
NIST produces a number of food-matrix Standard Reference Materials. A problem that frequently occurs in their analysis is one of assessing compatibility of...
As part of NIST's response to the Materials Genome Initiative (MGI), this project addresses the need for automation for the assembly and distribution of...
We develop quantitative methods for the analysis of macromolecules having complex architectures and nanoparticles having organic functionalities. Our...
Our goal is to develop measurement techniques to characterize the changes in thermal transport and thermal transition temperatures in polymeric and hybrid...
Our goal is to enable industrial acquisition of combinatorial and high-throughput measurement approaches for polymeric materials research and development...
Our goal is to develop measurement methods with sufficiently high spatial resolution to uncover the materials limitations in the resolution of state-of-the-art...
Our goal is to develop combinatorial library approaches for measuring and optimizing the effect of substrate chemical functionalization on the structure and...