Metals

News and Updates

A tiny glass vial on a white stand has a copper headphone-shaped structure over it.

Custom ‘Headphones’ Boost Atomic Radio Reception 100-Fold

May 23, 2022

The structure — a square overhead loop connecting two square panels — increases the incoming radio signal, or electric field, applied to the gaseous atoms in

Detecting mid-infrared light, one photon at a time

June 1, 2021

For some 30 years, scientists have used superconducting materials to record the tiniest specks of light imaginable — individual photons, or single particles of

New Research Could Help Manufacturers Avoid 3D-Printing Pitfall

May 19, 2021

A research team has found that a method commonly used to skirt one of metal 3D printing’s biggest problems may be far from a silver bullet. For manufacturers

Projects and Programs

Advanced Materials Design: Electronic and Functional Applications

Ongoing

Using atomistic-level calculations (density functional theory and classical molecular dynamics), this project aims at increasing our knowledge of electronic and

A current (white arrow) flowing through a tantalum film generates a current of spins (dark blue arrows) that impinges on the ferromagnetic cobalt iron boron layer and causes the magnetization (gold arrow) to charge directions (light blue arrow).

Theory of Spin-Orbit Torque

Ongoing

The working of countless electronic devices involves electric and magnetic effects interacting within nanostructured materials. In the phenomenon known as spin

Atomistic tools for structure-property investigations

Ongoing

This project provides resources to address some of the challenges to the wider use of classical atomistic simulations (e.g. molecular dynamics and Monte-Carlo)

Microstructure-Property Tools for Materials Design

Ongoing

Computational materials design requires a variety of tools to model processing-structure-property relationships across a range of time and length scales. This

Publications

Spreadsheet-Based Software for the Analysis of Homogeneous and Inhomogeneous Data Sets in Accordance with ASTM E1921-21

June 14, 2022

Author(s)

Enrico Lucon

NIST has developed a user-friendly spreadsheet-based software package for the Master Curve analysis of fracture toughness tests performed in the ductile-to

Interlaboratory Comparison Study on Crack Size Measurements Performed with Two Different Methods

May 5, 2022

Author(s)

Enrico Lucon

An interlaboratory study (ILS), involving 15 laboratories from North America, Europe, and Japan, was conducted to validate crack size measurements on various

The Influence of Temperature on the Strain-hardening Behavior of Fe-22/25/28Mn-3Al-3Si TRIP/TWIP Steels

April 11, 2022

Author(s)

Dean Pierce, Jake Benzing, Jose Jimenez, Tilmann Hickel, Ivan Bleskov, Jong Keum, Dierk Raabe, Jim Wittig

The influence of temperature and stacking fault energy (SFE) on the strain-hardening behavior and critically resolved shear stress for twinning was investigated

INFLUENCE OF H2S ON THE LOCALISED CORROSION OF 316L STAINLESS STEEL: PART 1 – COUPON TESTING

April 4, 2022

Author(s)

James Hesketh, Edmund Dickinson, Gregory McMahon, May Martin, Alan Turnbull, Gareth Hinds

Corrosion coupon immersion tests were performed on 316L SS in 50,000 ppm Cl- at 110 °C to evaluate the effect of partial pressure of H2S on pit depth and

Software

HolograFREE

An electron hologram is a fringe modulated image containing the amplitude and phase information of an electron transparent object. The HolograFREE routines

Tools and Instruments

Positron Annihilation Lifetime Spectrometer

Positron annihilation lifetime spectroscopy uses positrons to probe material defects/voids/free volume at the sub-nm scale. The general working principle is

Instrument scientists Conan Weiland (left) and Nick Quackenbush (right) at the Hard X-ray Photoelectron Spectrometer (HAXPES).

Hard X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (HAXPES)

The Hard X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (HAXPES) end station uses a tunable, focused X-ray beam in the tender spectrum (2.0 keV to 7.5 keV) to probe the depth

Vector Potential Photoelectron Microscope (VPPEM)

The Vector Potential Photoemission Microscope endstation sits at the end of both the SST-I and SST-II beamlines, providing both soft (0.1 keV to 2.2 keV) and

Picture of the sample area of the NIST X-ray Adsorbtion Fine Structure instrument, with NIST scientist Bruce Ravel, located at the National Synchrotron Light Source.

X-ray Absorption Fine Structure (XAFS)

The XAFS station uses a tunable, monochromatic, and moderately high energy X-ray beam (4.5 keV to 23.5 keV) for X-ray absorption spectroscopy measurements. The

Metals

News and Updates

Custom ‘Headphones’ Boost Atomic Radio Reception 100-Fold

Detecting mid-infrared light, one photon at a time

New Research Could Help Manufacturers Avoid 3D-Printing Pitfall

Projects and Programs

Advanced Materials Design: Electronic and Functional Applications

Theory of Spin-Orbit Torque

Atomistic tools for structure-property investigations

Microstructure-Property Tools for Materials Design

Publications

Spreadsheet-Based Software for the Analysis of Homogeneous and Inhomogeneous Data Sets in Accordance with ASTM E1921-21

Interlaboratory Comparison Study on Crack Size Measurements Performed with Two Different Methods

The Influence of Temperature on the Strain-hardening Behavior of Fe-22/25/28Mn-3Al-3Si TRIP/TWIP Steels

INFLUENCE OF H2S ON THE LOCALISED CORROSION OF 316L STAINLESS STEEL: PART 1 – COUPON TESTING

Software

HolograFREE

Tools and Instruments

Positron Annihilation Lifetime Spectrometer

Hard X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (HAXPES)

Vector Potential Photoelectron Microscope (VPPEM)

X-ray Absorption Fine Structure (XAFS)

Awards

Mark Stoudt Named ASM Fellow

Dr. Ursula Kattner Honored with 2020 William Hume-Rothery Award

MML Project Leader Enrico Lucon Receives ASTM International Award of Merit

MML Group Leader Frank DelRio Named ASME Fellow