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NIST Discovers How Strain at Grain Boundaries Suppresses High-Temperature Superconductivity

June 16, 2009

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have discovered that a reduction in mechanical strain at the boundaries of crystal...

The gold posts in this colorized micrograph, averaging 450 nanometers in diameter, are used to anchor individual biomolecules such as DNA for studies of their mechanical properties.

Nonstick and Laser-safe Gold Aids Laser Trapping of Biomolecules

June 16, 2009

Biophysicists long for an ideal material—something more structured and less sticky than a standard glass surface—to anchor and position individual biomolecules...

Shape Matters in the Case of Cobalt Nanoparticles

June 16, 2009

Shape is turning out to be a particularly important feature of some commercially important nanoparticles - but in subtle ways. New studies* by scientists at the...

Nanosoccer Robots Ready to Compete in Upcoming RoboCup Games

June 16, 2009

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will be serving up "soccer under glass" - the glass of a microscope lens - when nanosoccer makes its...

Between a polycrystalline material's grains (saffron layers) exist disorderly areas called grain boundaries

NIST Finds 'A Touch of Glass' in Metal, Settles Century-Old Question

June 16, 2009

Better predictions of how many valuable materials behave under stress could be on the way from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), where...

Microscopic photographs showing the level of fluorescence (green images) and the numbers of cells (blue images) at the time the cells were exposed to ricin and 6 hours later.

NIST Researchers 'All Aglow' Over New Test of Toxin Strength

June 16, 2009

A new National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) assay using a "glow or no glow" technique may soon help the U.S. Department of Homeland Security...

NIST Issues Latest Guidelines for Teleworking Security

June 16, 2009

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released the final version of an updated publication to help organizations and employees secure...

NIST Study Offers First Detailed Look at the Progress of a Wildland-Urban Fire

June 16, 2009

A wildfire rages across southern California wildlands towards residential communities, endangering residents and firefighters and sending property up in smoke...

NIST, DOD, Intelligence Agencies Join Forces to Secure U.S. Cyber Infrastructure

June 16, 2009

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in partnership with the Department of Defense (DOD), the Intelligence Community (IC), and the...

New Electron Beam Lithography System Now Available

June 11, 2009

The NanoFab now has a second electron beam nanolithography system on line, model JEOL JBX-6300FX. The beam deflection unit employs a 19 bit DAC unit for...

Laser Pattern Generator Now Available

June 11, 2009

The NanoFab has a new capability to enhance its prototype and proof-of-concept capabilities with a Heidelberg DWL-66FS Laser Pattern Generator designed for low...

New NanoFab Tools Coming Soon!

June 11, 2009

We will be vastly expanding our capabilities in 2009 by the addition of the following tools purchased in Fiscal Year 2007. We will announce anticipated delivery...

Announcing DRAFT NIST SP500-267 A Profile for IPv6 in the U.S. Government - Version 1.0 (Draft 2)

June 4, 2009

A DRAFT of NIST Special Publication 500-267, A Profile for IPv6 in the U.S. Government - Version 1.0 (Draft 2), is now available for public comment. This...

NIST Physicists Demonstrate Quantum Entanglement in Mechanical System

June 3, 2009

BOULDER, Colo.—Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated entanglement—a phenomenon peculiar to the atomic-scale...

NIST Hosts Two International Materials Research Meetings in June

June 2, 2009

For the materials research community, all roads will lead to the Gaithersburg, Md., headquarters of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)...

Memory with a Twist: NIST Develops a Flexible Memristor

June 2, 2009

Electronic memory chips may soon gain the ability to bend and twist as a result of work by engineers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST...

NIST's LIDAR May Offer Peerless Precision in Remote Measurements

June 2, 2009

By combining the best of two different distance measurement approaches with a super-accurate technology called an optical frequency comb, researchers at the...

NIST Processes to Help Build Next-Generation Nuclear Power Plants

June 2, 2009

Information exchange processes developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will be at the center of the effort to design and build...

NIST Delivers Updated Draft Standards for Electronic Voting Machines

June 2, 2009

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has delivered to the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) a draft revision to the 2005 federal...

Ten Undergraduate Researcher Fellows Gain Hands-On Nanotech Experience

June 2, 2009

As part of the CNST's mission to develop the next generation of nanotechnologists, the following NIST Summer Undergraduate Research Fellows will spend June and...

The CNST Welcomes Three New Staff Members

June 2, 2009

Robert Celotta, Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST), welcomed three new...

EEEL Measures High-Order Coherences of Chaotic and Coherent Light

June 1, 2009

Researchers in the Optoelectronics Division of EEEL, in collaboration with colleagues at MIT and MIT Lincoln Laboratory, have demonstrated a new way to measure...

Revision for Secure Domain Name System (DNS) Deployment Guide

June 1, 2009

March 2009 - NIST has drafted an update to the "Secure Domain Name System (DNS) Deployment Guide" (NIST Special Publication 800-81 Rev 1),the key Secure DNS...

ANTD assists in the completion of the IEEE 802.21 Media Independent Handovers (MIH) standard specifications

June 1, 2009

January 2009 - The IEEE 802.21 standard was published on January 21, 2009. This is the final realization of a multi-year project to standardize a media...

NIST Delivers Updated Draft Standards for Electronic Voting Machines

June 1, 2009

GAITHERSBURG, Md. – The Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today delivered to the Election Assistance Commission (EAC)...

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