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Material Measurement Laboratory

News and Updates

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Consortium Workshop Highlights TRC Advances

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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
The nickel prototype, which is the same shape and size as a regular nickel, but instead of Thomas Jefferson has a profile of Martha Washington in a mob cap and dummy text instead of "E Pluribus Unum."

Coining Less Expensive Currency

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

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

Recent Patent Activity within ACMD

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
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Data Driven

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

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

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

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
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Strength in Numbers

NIST is building an infrastructure for advanced data integration and management that promotes scientific innovation in the biological, chemical, and materials
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True as Steel

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
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A Standard for Standards

A new NIST standard ensures reliably accurate comparisons of measurements of the purity of tens of thousands of organic materials used throughout the world—in
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Unusual Suspects

NIST contributes to public safety with materials that increase the confidence of first responders to detect biothreats in the field. NIST’s Material Measurement
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Model Behavior

NIST is helping additive manufacturing, often referred to as 3D printing, mature from a potentially disruptive technology into a widespread industrial
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