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Spin Control: New Technique Sorts Nanotubes by Length

May 13, 2008

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have reported a new technique to sort batches of carbon nanotubes by length using high...

New 3-D Test Method for Biomaterials 'Flat Out' Faster

April 29, 2008

A novel, three-dimensional (3-D) screening method for analyzing interactions between cells and new biomaterials could cut initial search times by more than half...

Electron micrograph shows a cross-section of a typical SOG microcircuit feature.

Making a Good Impression: Nanoimprint Lithography Tests at NIST

April 29, 2008

In what should be good news for integrated circuit manufacturers, recent studies by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have helped...

Metal Detectives: New Book Details Titanic Investigation

April 15, 2008

In February 1998, Timothy Foecke, a metallurgist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), published a rather low-key "interagency report"...

Scanning electron microscope image of 'cleaned' carbon nanotubes at NIST

Carbon Nanotube Measurements: Latest in NIST 'How-To' Series

April 15, 2008

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in collaboration with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), has published...

NIST, Army Researchers Pave the Way for Anthrax Spore Standards

April 15, 2008

Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the U.S. Army Dugway (Utah) Proving Ground have developed reliable methods based...

New Report Outlines Research Roadmap for Biomanufacturing

April 1, 2008

On-line process tools, improved sensor calibration and analytical and data analysis methods are among the technological challenges facing the biomanufacturing...

Nanomaterials Show Unexpected Strength Under Stress

March 18, 2008

In yet another twist on the strangeness of the nanoworld, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of...

A novel technique for controlling the orientation of nanostructures is to use disordered, roughened substrates.

Copolymers Block Out New Approaches to Microelectronics at NIST

March 18, 2008

In response to the electronics industry's rallying cry of "smaller and faster," the next breakthroughs in the electronics size barrier are likely to come from...

Joint Research: Probing the Mysteries of a Surprisingly Tough Hydrogel

March 18, 2008

Some 46 million people suffer from arthritis in the United States alone. The worst cases require painful surgeries to drill holes in and reinforce joints. Now...

ZZnO nanowires to grow out of the circular copper substrate in all directions

Chemists Measure Copper Levels in Zinc Oxide Nanowires

February 19, 2008

Chemists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have been the first to measure significant amounts of copper incorporated into zinc oxide...

NIST research biologist Jennifer M. Keller taking a blood sample from a loggerhead turtle

Turtle Studies Suggest Health Risks from Environmental Contaminants

February 19, 2008

The same chemicals that keep food from sticking to our frying pans and stains from setting in our carpets are damaging the livers and impairing the immune...

amples of breast cancer cells from a patient with over production

NIST, NCI, SAIC Partner on New Method for Detecting HER2 Breast Cancer

February 19, 2008

Generations of mothers have served up chicken soup to remedy the common cold, but now the therapeutic fowl may find use in diagnosis as well. Researchers at the...

Confocal microscope image of a carbon nanotube/polypropylene composite.

Shear Ingenuity: Tweaking the Conductivity of Nanotube Composites

February 5, 2008

One of the immediate applications of carbon nanotubes (CNT) is as an additive to polymers to create electrically conducting plastics—a relatively low CNT...

Microscopic beads embedded in a gel surface were used to trace the motion of a gel forming an interface with a liquid.

Videos Extract Mechanical Properties of Liquid-Gel Interfaces

January 23, 2008

Blood coursing through vessels, lubricated cartilage sliding against joints, ink jets splashing on paper—living and nonliving things abound with fluids meeting...

NIST Building Facility for Hydrogen Pipeline Testing

January 23, 2008

Efforts to create a "hydrogen economy" to reduce U.S. oil imports will get a boost from a new laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology...

The four images (taken with scanning laser confocal microscopy) show variations in surface roughness of an aluminum alloy as produced by increasing amounts of strain

Rough Times: NIST's New Approach to Surface Profiling

January 8, 2008

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a novel technique for measuring the roughness of surfaces that is...

NIST Imaging System Maps Nanomechanical Properties

December 12, 2007

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed an imaging system that quickly maps the mechanical properties of materials—how stiff or...

Optical micrographs of contact damage in silicon from cyclic stress showing progressive damage

Job-Related Stress: NIST Demonstrates Fatigue Effects in Silicon

November 27, 2007

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated a mechanical fatigue process that eventually leads to cracks and...

NIST Posts Online Database of Cryogenic Materials Properties

November 8, 2007

In response to numerous inquiries from academia, industry, and other government labs, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently...

New SRM Allows Accurate Accounting of Forensic DNA

October 25, 2007

Thanks to the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), a method for making multiple copies of DNA fragments, even tiny bits of biological evidence (in the form of hair...

NIST Demos Industrial-Grade Nanowire Device Fabrication

October 25, 2007

In the growing catalog of nanoscale technologies, nanowires—tiny rows of conductor or semiconductor atoms—have attracted a great deal of interest for their...

Spectroscopic image showing the microwave-frequency magnetic resonances of an array of parallel, metallic thin film nanowires ("stripes")

Measurements from the Edge: Magnetic Properties of Thin Films

September 27, 2007

Materials researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), together with colleagues from IBM and the Massachusetts Institute of...

$Optical profilometer image of the broken surface of a glass rod shows height of peaks and valleys of the fracture surface in millionths of a meter.$

New Guide Available for Fractography of Ceramics and Glasses

September 13, 2007

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently issued a guide to Fractography of Ceramics and Glasses (NIST Special Publication SP 960-16)...

NIST Team Develops Novel Method for Nanostructured Polymer Thin Films

September 13, 2007

All researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) wanted was a simple, quick method for making thin films of block copolymers or BCPs...

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