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

Mid-Infrared, Near-Infrared, and Visible Nanospectroscopy of Hydrogen-Intercalated MoO3

August 21, 2023

Author(s)

Jeffrey Schwartz, Sergiy Krylyuk, Devon Jakob, Albert Davydov, Andrea Centrone

Control over the local chemical composition and spatial heterogeneities in nanomaterials provides a means to impart new functions and to tailor their properties

Direct Visualization of Chemically Resolved Multilayered Domains in Mixed-Linker Metal–Organic Frameworks

June 15, 2023

Author(s)

Andrea Centrone, Belén Lerma-Berlanga, Adam Biacchi, Carmen Fernández Conde, Georges Pavlidis, Carlos Martí-Gastaldo

The modular synthesis approach for assembling inorganic nodes and organic multidentate linkers into reticular solids enables rational engineering in porous

Efficient Computational Design of 2D van der Waals Heterostructures: Band-Alignment, Lattice-Mismatch, Web-app Generation and Machine-learning

February 13, 2023

Author(s)

Kamal Choudhary, Kevin Garrity, Francesca Tavazza, Ghanshyam Pilania

We develop a computational database, web-apps and machine-learning (ML) models to accelerate the design and discovery of two-dimensional (2D)-heterostructures

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

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