Nanofluidics

News and Updates

Not Letting It Slip By: NIST Discovery Could Increase Accuracy in Measuring Blood Flow for Cancer Diagnosis, Other Applications

March 22, 2022

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have discovered a potential source of error when using acoustic waves to measure the

Sneezes, Rain Clouds and Ink Jets: NIST Improves the Ability of Optical Microscopes to Measure the Volume of Microdroplets

December 20, 2021

Sneezes, rain clouds, and ink jet printers: They all produce or contain liquid droplets so tiny it would take several billion of them to fill a liter bottle

A woman (Callie Higgins) stands in front of a piece of photopolymerization equipment.

NIST’s Callie Higgins Wins Service to America Medal

October 28, 2021

Callie I. Higgins, a materials research engineer at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), has won the Samuel J. Heyman Service to America

Projects and Programs

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

Fluctuations and Nanoscale Control Software (Archived)

Completed

MATLAB Software [1-2] developed and referenced within Fluctuations and Nanoscale Control projects are available for download from this page. If you use this

Real-Time Tracking and Fluorescence Spectroscopy of Individual Nanoparticles (Archived)

Completed

The behavior and properties of macroscale objects are stable and predictable because they are the result of the average behavior of very large numbers of atoms

Advanced Materials Metrology

Ongoing

In this project we measure the fundamental electrical properties of materials from bulk to nanoscale from 1 MHz to 0.3 THz. Understanding the interaction of

Publications

Optofluidic Flow Meter for sub–nanoliter per minute flow measurements

January 31, 2022

Author(s)

Jalal Sadeghi, Paul Patrone, Anthony J. Kearsley, Gregory A. Cooksey

Performance improvements in microfluidic systems depend on accurate measurement and control of fluids on the micro- and nanoscale, and new applications are

Nanopores in Atomically Thin 2D Nanosheets Limit Aqueous Single-Stranded DNA Transport

September 24, 2021

Author(s)

Alexander Smolyanitsky, Binquan Luan

Nanopores in 2D materials are highly desirable for DNA sequencing, yet achieving single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) transport through them is challenging. Using

Field-induced dehydration and optimal ionic escape paths for C2N membranes

June 11, 2021

Author(s)

Miroslav Barabash, William Gibby, Dmitry Luchinsky, Binquan Luan, Alexander Smolyanitsky, Peter McClintock

Most analytic theories describing electrostatically driven ion transport through water-filled nanopores assume that the corresponding permeation barriers are

Laser-based temperature control to study the roles of entropy and enthalpy in polymer-nanopore interactions

April 21, 2021

Author(s)

Christopher Angevine, Joseph W. Robertson, Amala Dass, Joseph E. Reiner