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Gold Nano Anchors Put Nanowires in Their Place

November 10, 2004

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated a technique for growing well-formed, single-crystal nanowires in...

Colorized micrograph of a nanoporous insulation film after "wrinkling" with a new NIST measurement method.

NIST Testing Method Quickly Tells Whether Thin Films Are Strong Enough for the Job

July 12, 2004

The challenge of determining whether thin films—some no thicker than a single molecule—are strong enough for a growing number of important technology jobs just...

NIST metallurgist Robert Shull loads a sample into an ultracold chamber to measure its promise as a magnetic refrigerant.

NIST Research Reveals Tiny Iron Supplement Has 'Chilling' Effect That Bodes Well for Magnetic Refrigeration

June 23, 2004

A pinch of iron dramatically boosts the cooling performance of a material considered key to the development of magnetic refrigerators, report researchers at the...

Keeping Drugs Stable Without Refrigeration

June 16, 2004

A spoonful of sugar may help the medicine go down, but it may take only a thin coating of freeze-dried sugar to keep insulin, vaccines and other heat-sensitive...

NIST research chemist John Marino places a RNA sample into the magnet of a nuclear magnetic resonance instrument

'Kissing' RNA and HIV-1: Unraveling the details

January 30, 2004

A subtle structural change that may play a role in the molecular machinery for making HIV-1 (the virus that causes AIDS) has been identified by scientists from...

Commerce's NIST Receives Valuable Chemical Data from Dow

July 31, 2003

As part of an effort to improve the quality of chemical information available to U.S. researchers, manufacturers, students and others, Dow Chemical Co. has...

NIST Team Reports Method to Characterize New Insulating Materials for Microelectronics

August 20, 2002

Researchers from the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) reported today they have developed methods for characterizing...

Public/Private Advance Focuses the Search for New Materials to Print Next-Generation Microchips

July 19, 2002

New methods reported today by researchers from the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the IBM T.J. Watson Research...

New NIST Database Will Help Assess Air Quality

July 19, 1999

A new database now available from the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology will help measure airborne pollutants from...

Polyester Blend Aids in Scientific Pursuit of Future Composites

May 4, 1999

Scientists at the Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology today announced that they have taken a major step toward the manufacture...

New Chemistry Laboratory Is First Step Toward 21st Century NIST

March 8, 1999

The Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology took its first step into the 21st century with today’s dedication of the new Advanced...

NIST Scientist Wins Nation's Highest Scientific Honor

December 8, 1998

President Clinton today named John W. Cahn (photo), a leading materials scientist at the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology...

Advance Could Lead Eventually To Big Savings In Metal-Forming Industry

July 21, 1998

Scientists at the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology are the first to succeed in using a new technique that shows precisely...

NIST 98 Provides Largest Ever Expansion and Improvement Of Mass Spectral Database

February 17, 1998

Analytical chemists now can take advantage of improved accuracy and a 75 percent expansion of the National Institute of Standards and Technology's popular mass...

Failure of Tiny Rivets May Have Sunk 'Unsinkable' Liner

February 17, 1998

When the remains of the RMS Titanic were discovered more than two miles beneath the surface of the North Atlantic in 1985, the story of the great liner once...

Pioneering Research In X-ray and Neutron Examination of Polymer Films Earns Stratton Award For Wu

December 10, 1997

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has presented the Samuel Wesley Stratton Award to Wen-Li Wu of the agency’s Materials Science and Engineering...

NIST Presents Slichter Award to Bur, Migler and Wang For Developing Novel Probes to Control Polymer Processing

December 10, 1997

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has presented the William P. Slichter Award to Anthony Bur, Kalman Migler and Francis Wang of the agency’s...

New NIST 'Webbook' Offers Collection of Chemistry Data Online

May 30, 1997

Envisioned to replace bulky reference books and trips to research libraries, NIST’s new compilation of chemical and physical data, the NIST Chemistry WebBook...

NIST Cast Iron Standard Is Gold To Steel Industry For 90 Years

January 14, 1997

As scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology well know, standards come and go. Since its start in 1901, NIST (then known as the National...

Medical Device Community Teams with NIST to Identify Best Wear-Resistant Materials for Implants

September 25, 1996

Six manufacturers of orthopedic medical devices are joining the National Institute of Standards and Technology in a cooperative effort to identify the best test...

NIST/Space Shuttle Tests Could Enhance Space Station Safety

February 22, 1996

A NIST experiment aboard the space shuttle Columbia launched today could help keep tomorrow's space station and its astronauts safe from fire. The experiment...

Tooth Remineralization Method Licensed To international Healthcare Manufacturer

September 12, 1995

A major breakthrough in oral health care has been brought closer to the marketplace by the licensing of several tooth remineralization and desensitization...

Commerce Agency Joins Domestic Auto Manufacturers and Regulatory Agencies in Effort to Reduce Vehicle Emissions

August 24, 1995

A new research program at the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology will help U.S. auto manufacturers develop technology needed...

New DNA Quality Assurance Standard Helps Ensure Accuracy Of DNA Profiling

June 14, 1995

A new federal DNA quality assurance standard will help forensic and medical laboratories ensure that DNA profiles made by the fastest and most popular profiling...

Windows^TM Version of Popular NIST/EPA/NIH Mass Spectral Database Now Available

March 5, 1995

A new version of a popular computer database for analytical chemists and environmental scientists is now available for use with Microsoft® Windows TM software...

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