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Silicon Nanowires Upgrade Data-Storage Technology

June 8, 2007

Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), along with colleagues at George Mason University and Kwangwoon University in Korea...

Micrograph of a complete nanowire LED with the end contact

New Fabrication Technique Yields Nanoscale UV LEDs

May 24, 2007

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in collaboration with scientists from the University of Maryland and Howard University...

Wetter Report: New Approach to Testing Surface Adhesion

May 10, 2007

With a nod to one of nature’s best surface chemists—an obscure desert beetle—polymer scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)...

Study: Cells Selectively Absorb Short Nanotubes

March 30, 2007

DNA-wrapped single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) shorter than about 200 nanometers readily enter into human lung cells and so may pose an increased risk to...

NIST Develops Rapid Method for Judging Nanotube Purity

February 1, 2007

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a sensitive new method for rapidly assessing the quality of carbon...

NIST ‘Standard Bullet’ Fights Gang Violence

January 19, 2007

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a copper bullet designed to help end criminal sprees without once being...

Algae Toxin Identification Unravels Fish-Kill Mystery

January 19, 2007

A team of researchers from the Hollings Marine Laboratory in Charleston, S.C., has uncovered a subtle chemical pathway by which normally inoffensive algae...

New Miniaturized Device for Lab-on-a-Chip Separations

January 19, 2007

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed an elegantly simple, miniaturized technique for rapidly separating...

New Quartz References For Workplace Safety

January 19, 2007

Chemists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new set of reference materials that could contribute to significant...

New Measurement Guide Worth 'Poring Over'

November 9, 2006

In industries from textiles to automobiles and from pharmaceuticals to semiconductors, accurately measuring empty spaces—technically speaking, porosity—is a...

New Web-based System Leads to Better, More Timely Data

October 26, 2006

After two years of work, an innovative project using Web-based technologies to speed researcher access to a large body of new scientific data has demonstrated...

Turning a Nuclear Spotlight on Illegal Weapons Material

October 26, 2006

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have demonstrated that they can cheaply...

ERCC to Begin Test Rounds for Final RNA Reference Set

September 14, 2006

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in cooperation with the External RNA Controls Consortium (ERCC), has awarded a contract to...

New Reference Materials Support Industrial Zeolites

September 14, 2006

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued three new reference materials to support researchers studying the properties of...

New Web Database Improves Access to Ionic Liquid Data

August 17, 2006

Chemical engineers and others designing "green" industrial processes using new ionic liquid solvents now have an important new resource, an on-line database of...

Links Between DNA Damage and Breast Cancer Studied

August 3, 2006

Researchers from the Pacific Northwest Research Institute (PNRI) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have uncovered a pattern of DNA...

Rust Never Sleeps: New SRM Aids Coated Steel Industry

July 6, 2006

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed a new reference material to aid quality control in the steel coatings industry. The new...

Designer Gradients Speed Surface Science Experiments

June 8, 2006

Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated an elegantly simple technique for synthesizing a wide variety of...

Mass Spectrometry Methods Database Gets Major Update

May 25, 2006

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently added 150 new methods—nicknamed "recipes"—to a database already containing 255...

Neuronal Cell Cultures Kept on the Straight and Narrow

May 25, 2006

An improved technique for culturing cells, developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), may enable new, fundamental insights into the...

NIST chemists Thomas Bruno and Beverly Smith analyze complex fuel mixtures with the new advanced distillation curve apparatus.

Still More Accurate After All These Years

May 25, 2006

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed an improved method for measuring basic properties of complex fuel...

Low-Cost Microfluidics Can Be a Sticky Problem

May 12, 2006

A deceptively simple approach to bonding thermoplastic microchannel plates together with solvent could be used for low-cost, high-volume production of...

NIST and NCI to Collaborate On Proteomics Assessment

May 12, 2006

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) of the National Institutes of Health have begun a program to...

Kayser Is New Head of NIST Materials Lab

February 16, 2006

Richard Kayser, a chemist with diverse technical and managerial experience, has been named director of the Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory (MSEL)...

Boettinger Elected to Engineering Academy

February 16, 2006

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) metallurgist William J. Boettinger has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), an honor...

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