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Material Measurement Laboratory

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New Protocol for Measuring Background Levels of Drugs in Crime Labs

September 25, 2018

When crime lab chemists handle evidence that contains illegal drugs, trace amounts of those drugs are inevitably released into the laboratory environment. When...

NIST Updates Forensic Standard Reference Materials

September 19, 2018

At forensic science labs, analysts literally weigh the evidence. They also measure it in other ways. They use microscopes, DNA profiling kits, chemical...

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Many Arctic Pollutants Decrease After Market Removal and Regulation

August 27, 2018

Levels of some persistent organic pollutants (POPs) regulated by the Stockholm Convention are decreasing in the Arctic, according to an international team of...

An electron micrograph showing many blue-colored nanoscale (billionth of a meter) particles of varying sizes and shapes scattered atop a silicon wafer.

Connecting the (Nano) Dots: NIST Says Big-Picture Thinking Can Advance Nanoparticle Manufacturing

August 22, 2018

Nanoparticle manufacturing, the production of material units less than 100 nanometers in size (100,000 times smaller than a marble), is proving the adage that...

NIST SBIR Project Advances to Air Force Test Units

August 21, 2018

A NIST SBIR Phase II project is now supporting efforts for the U.S. Air Force’s Arnold Engineering Development Complex (AEDC) Airpropulsion Test Unit. The NIST...

Pratt & Whitney Senior Engineer Chris Pellicone (left) with NIST's Bruce Ravel (right) at the Beamline for Material Measurement (BMM)

Industry a key component of newly commissioned NIST beamline at Brookhaven National Laboratory

August 2, 2018

Building off of a nearly 40 year partnership with Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), NIST has recently completed and commissioned the Beamline for Material...

MML Organizes and Hosts Second Annual Structural Reliability Partnership Workshop

July 31, 2018 - August 1, 2018

Frank DelRio, Group Leader in the Applied Chemicals and Materials Division, organized and hosted the second Annual Structural Reliability Partnership (SRP)...

New Cell Lines Produce NIST Monoclonal Antibody for Improved Manufacturing of Biologic Drugs

July 31, 2018

When the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) issued the world’s first standardized monoclonal antibody (mAb) in July 2016, the exhaustively...

NIST Builds Statistical Foundation for Next-Generation Forensic DNA Profiling

July 23, 2018

DNA is often considered the most reliable form of forensic evidence, and this reputation is based on the way DNA experts use statistics. When they compare...

Data-Sharing Website May Speed Response to New Illegal Drugs

July 5, 2018

The drug overdose epidemic currently gripping the nation is so tenacious in part because it’s being driven by fentanyl, a synthetic opioid that comes in many...

NIST Researchers Simulate Simple Logic for Nanofluidic Computing

June 29, 2018

Invigorating the idea of computers based on fluids instead of silicon, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have shown how...

NIST Reference Material 8366 for Cancer Biomarker EGFR and MET Measurements now available

June 25, 2018

NIST Reference Material 8366 for cancer biomarkers EGFR (epidermal growth factor receptor) and MET (proto-oncogene, receptor tyrosine kinase) gene copy number...

Consortium Workshop Highlights TRC Advances

June 21, 2018 - June 22, 2018

Our 2018 NIST/TRC Consortium Workshop has drawn to a close; the consortium is hosted by the Thermodynamics Research Center within Boulder’s Applied Chemicals...

Coining Less Expensive Currency

June 20, 2018

Nickels are ubiquitous in American life, tumbling around in pockets, rolling under car seats, and emerging from the back of dryers to be used over and over for...

MML Staff Teaches Foundations of Cryocoolers

June 18, 2018 - August 28, 2018

Ray Radebaugh, Fellow Emeritus in MML’s Applied Chemicals and Materials Division, recently presented two short courses on the fundamentals and latest advances...

A New Way to Measure Energy in Microscopic Machines

June 8, 2018

What drives cells to live and engines to move? It all comes down to a quantity that scientists call “free energy,” essentially the energy that can be extracted...

Recent Patent Activity within ACMD

June 7, 2018

A provisional patent by Tom Bruno and Kim Urness of the Applied Chemicals and Materials Division on Inductive Flash Desorption was published on June 7, 2018...

Data Driven

June 5, 2018

NIST accelerates the discovery of new materials critical to industry. NIST’s Material Measurement Lab provides data and computational resources to...

Winning Numbers

May 29, 2018

NIST Standard Reference Materials® help people in industry, academia, and government agencies have confidence in their measurements, which is essential to every...

Technical Support

May 15, 2018

NIST’s nSoft consortium helps product developers solve difficult problems by giving them access to a powerful tool, unlike anything in an industry R&D lab, for...

Artwork shows a hand with tweezers inserting a piece of DNA in a larger strand. The smaller piece has a black and white barcode attached.

From Clipping Scissors to Word Processor

May 7, 2018

Using the gene-editing tool CRISPR to snip at DNA is often akin to using scissors to edit a newspaper article. You can cut out words, but it’s difficult to...

Can This Invasive Exotic Pest Make Better Materials for Industry and Medicine?

May 4, 2018

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have combined derivatives of two surplus materials—wood pulp and dried-up pieces of an...

Upcoming NIST-FDA Workshop to Shed Light on Current Regulatory Perspectives and Inform Work of NIST Genome Editing Consortium

April 13, 2018

A workshop to take place April 23-24, 2018 on the NIST campus in Gaithersburg, Maryland will explore the measurement and standards needs of stakeholders across...

True as Steel

April 9, 2018

NIST helps to ensure the quality of steel, one of the most widely traded commodities on the planet. The Material Measurement Lab at NIST makes certified...

LED lights are shown at top emitting heat. The blue light goes down to a TV screen. The green and red light goes through nanoplatelets before going to the TV screen

Nanoplatelets Could Make TVs More Energy Efficient

March 28, 2018

Researchers at NIST and Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc. have discovered new optical properties in sheet-like materials that could eventually make flat...

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