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Material Measurement Laboratory

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NIST Posts 5-Year Strategic Plan for Measurement Research and Services in Materials, Chemical and Biological Sciences

August 13, 2015

Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have mapped out a plan for the NIST Material Measurement Laboratory, the unit...

New Shellfish Reference Material Will Help Monitor Oceans' Radioactive Contamination

August 4, 2015

A new reference material that will help laboratories accurately measure radioactive contamination in seawater is now available from the National Institute of...

NIST Calculates High Cost of Hydrogen Pipelines, Shows How to Reduce It

July 20, 2015

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has put firm numbers on the high costs of installing pipelines to transport hydrogen fuel—and also...

carbon nanotubes embedded in a polymer composite

NIST 'How-To' Website Documents Procedures for Nano-EHS Research and Testing

June 30, 2015

As engineered nanomaterials increasingly find their way into commercial products, researchers who study the potential environmental or health impacts of those...

To Give Cancer a Deadly Fever, NIST Explores Better Nanoparticle Design

June 16, 2015

Heat may be the key to killing certain types of cancer, and new research from a team including National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) scientists...

NIST's 'Nano-Raspberries' Could Bear Fruit in Fuel Cells

June 9, 2015

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a fast, simple process for making platinum "nano-raspberries"...

'Measuring Stick' Standard for Gene Sequencing Now Available from NIST

May 21, 2015

The world's first reference material to help ensure laboratories accurately "map" DNA for genetic testing, medical diagnoses and future customized drug...

NIST Develops NMR 'Fingerprinting' for Monoclonal Antibodies

April 14, 2015

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) researchers at the Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research (IBBR) have demonstrated the most...

Double Vision: New NIST Technique Can See Nanoscale 'Tree' and Microscale 'Forest' Simultaneously

March 3, 2015

A close-up view of an individual tree won't tell you much about what's going on in the forest, or even what's going on in the tree's upper branches. The same...

New NIST Reference Material Provides a Silver Lining for NanoEHS Research

March 3, 2015

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued a new silver nanoparticle reference material to support researchers studying potential...

MedImmune and NIST Partner to Advance Development of Biological Therapies

February 20, 2015

Additional Contact: Tracy Rossin (MedImmune) 301-398-1468 GAITHERSBURG, Md.—MedImmune, the global biologics research and development arm of AstraZeneca, and the...

NIST Shows Crystal Pattern Mapping Can Recover Obliterated Serial Numbers in Metals

February 11, 2015

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated a technique for mapping deformation in metals that can recover...

Public-Private Sector Partners Launch $2 Million Open Innovation Challenge to Find Advanced Energy Absorbing Materials

January 29, 2015

NEW YORK (January 29, 2015) – The NFL, GE (NYSE:GE) and Under Armour (NYSE:UA), today announced that they have joined with the U.S. Department of Commerce's...

Liquids and Glasses Relax, Too. But Not Like You Thought.

January 15, 2015

A new insight into the fundamental mechanics of the movement of molecules recently published by researchers at the National Institute of Standards and...

NIST Contributes to Media's Top Science Stories of 2014

January 7, 2015

Cool instruments—literally—made by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) contributed to the media's top science stories of 2014. More than a...

Reliable RNA Analysis Now Easier with NIST 'Dashboard' Tool

December 2, 2014

A new, innovative "dashboard" from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) won't help you drive your car, but it will help enable reproducible...

Ensuring Quality: NIST Suggests New Purity Test for Biotech Products

December 2, 2014

To avoid contaminating their experiments, biomedical researchers want to know that the scientific products they buy are pure. But how pure does something need...

Research in Images: Cutaway View of Nanoparticles in a Neural Cell

November 26, 2014

NIST's Precision Imaging Facility (PIF) in Boulder, Colo., provides a variety of advanced tools for precisely measuring the structure and chemical composition...

NIST Study Suggests Light May Be Skewing Lab Tests on Nanoparticles' Health Effects

November 18, 2014

Truth shines a light into dark places. But sometimes to find that truth in the first place, it's better to stay in the dark. That's what recent findings at the...

Computer simulations of two possible morphologies of a block copolymer film

NIST Offers Electronics Industry Two Ways to Snoop on Self-Organizing Molecules

October 22, 2014

A few short years ago, the idea of a practical manufacturing process based on getting molecules to organize themselves in useful nanoscale shapes seemed...

Strengthening Thin-Film Bonds with Ultrafast Data Collection

October 17, 2014

When studying extremely fast reactions in ultrathin materials, two measurements are better than one. A new research tool invented by researchers at Lawrence...

NIST Scientists Improve Microscopic Batteries with Homebuilt Imaging Analysis

September 26, 2014

In a rare case of having their cake and eating it too, scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and other institutions have...

TOP: Image of fluorescent reference material on microscope. BOTTOM: Charting of microscope control parameters.

How are you establishing long-term measurement assurance in fluorescence microscopy?

September 24, 2014

Would your laboratory or company benefit from having an easy method to track fluorescence microscopy performance? Can you compare your imaging results to those...

A structural model of a typical silicon nanocrystal stabilized within an organic shell of cyclohexane.

World's Smallest Reference Material is Big Plus for Nanotechnology

September 24, 2014

If it's true that good things come in small packages, then the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) can now make anyone working with...

Lighten Up! New NIST Research Facility Gives Material Help to Automakers

August 26, 2014

Want to make more fuel-efficient cars and trucks? Build them out of lighter materials. Sounds easy, but it's not. Automakers have decades of experience with the...

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