Nanochemistry

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A Revolution Still in the Making: NIST Researchers Chart the Future of Nucleic Acid Nanotechnology

October 27, 2022

Trapped in a microscopic cage made of strands of DNA, molecules of a life-saving drug course through the bloodstream of a cancer patient. Only when receptors on

Room Temperature Conversion of CO₂ to CO: A New Way to Synthesize Hydrocarbons

November 2, 2020

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their colleagues have demonstrated a room-temperature method that could

Researchers Explore Energy-saving Catalysts that Operate at Room Temperature

April 15, 2019

NIST researchers have explored in unprecedented detail a new breed of catalysts that allow some chemical reactions, which normally require high heat, to proceed

Projects and Programs

PTIR combines the spatial resolution of AFM with the specificity of absorption spectroscopy

Nano-Chemical Imaging and -Spectroscopy (IR, nIR, VIS)

Ongoing

Conventional techniques for analyzing chemical composition, such as infrared (IR) microscopy often miss critically important nanoscale details. To overcome this

Schematic showing DNA origami in a laser beam

DNA Origami for Precise Manufacturing of Nanoscale Structures

Completed

Over the past decade nanoscale science has produced varied and fascinating nanostructures with an extraordinary range of interesting and useful properties. In

Fundamental Interaction Mechanisms of Engineered Nanomaterials with DNA

Ongoing

We utilized isotope-dilution liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry (LC/MS) to determine the levels of the oxidatively damaged DNA bases, 8

Publications

Enhanced Atomic Precision Fabrication by Adsorption of Phosphine into Engineered Dangling Bonds on H–Si Using STM and DFT

November 1, 2022

Author(s)

Jonathan Wyrick, Xiqiao Wang, Pradeep Namboodiri, Ranjit Kashid, Fan Fei, Joseph Fox, Richard M. Silver

Doping of Si using the scanning probe technique of hydrogen depassivation lithography has been shown to enable placing and positioning small numbers of P atoms

Tip-enhanced Raman scattering for atomic-scale spectroscopy and imaging

October 24, 2022

Author(s)

Jeremy Schultz

Atomic scale spectroscopy provides an exceptional ability to define electronic, optical, thermal, mechanical, and chemical properties of materials at the

Characterizations of two-dimensional materials with cryogenic ultrahigh vacuum near-field optical microscopy in the visible range

May 17, 2022

Author(s)

Jeremy Schultz, Nan Jiang

The development of new characterization methods has resulted in innovative studies of the properties of two-dimensional (2D) materials. Observations of

Polyoxovanadates as Precursors for the Synthesis of Colloidal Multi-Metal Oxide Nanocrystals

March 31, 2022

Author(s)

Adam Biacchi, Lucas Johnson, Ashley Sweet, Eric Cal, Angela R. Hight Walker, Matthew Buck, Luke Barrante

Colloidal multi-metal oxide nanocrystals that contain the element vanadium are attractive materials for enabling diverse technologies. Few nanocrystal systems

Tools and Instruments

X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy

The Material Measurement Science Division at NIST performs surface chemical analysis using X-ray Photoelectron

Awards

Elijah Petersen Receives ACS Chemical Research in Toxicology Award

This award honors the contributions of an early-career individual who has had a major impact on research in chemical toxicology or a related