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Call For Proposals

January 20, 2010

The deadline for new and continuation proposals is January 28. 2010. Successful proposals will be allocated instrument time from April through October 2010

$An imaging technique known as neutron diffraction, used along with molecular simulations, revealed that an ion channel’s voltage sensing domain perturbs the two-layered cell membrane that surrounds it.$

Nervy Research: Researchers Take Initial Look at Ion Channels in a Model System

December 1, 2009

Before one of your muscles can twitch, before the thought telling it to flex can race down your nerve, a tiny floodgate of sorts--called an ion channel--must

Taner Yildirim wins the Special Award of Turkish Science Organization

October 30, 2009

Dr. Taner Yildirim, a physicist at the NCNR, has won the prestigious Special Award for 2009 from Tubitak, the Scientific and Technological Research Council of

Extended Shutdown Planned for 2011

October 13, 2009

The NCNR expansion project is proceeding on a schedule that will require a 10½ month shutdown of the reactor beginning around March 2011.

Magnetic monopoles are created when the spin of an ion in one corner of a spin ice crystal is knocked askew, creating a monopole and adjacent antimonopole.

Large-Scale Cousin of Elusive 'Magnetic Monopoles' Found at NIST

October 6, 2009

Any child can tell you that a magnet has a "north" and a "south" pole, and that if you break it into two pieces, you invariably get two smaller magnets with two

closeup image of the HKUST-1 metal-organic framework

Safer, Denser Acetylene Storage in an Organic Framework

August 25, 2009

The century-old challenge of transporting acetylene may have been solved in principle by a team of scientists working at the National Institute of Standards and

Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)

August 20, 2009

Dr. Craig Brown, an instrument scientist for the Disk Chopper Spectrometer at the NIST Center for Neutron Research, will receive a PECASE award for showing

NCNR Relicensing Ceremony

NCNR Reactor Relicensed by U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

July 14, 2009

To explore the structure and dynamics of novel materials, the more than two dozen scientific instruments at the National Institute of Standards and Technology

summer students at NIST explore the NCNR

NIST Summer School Passes the Neutron Science Torch

June 30, 2009

What do the mystery of how proteins fold, the unexpected behavior of nanoparticles, and the key to making hydrogen fuel cells have in common? All can be

NCNR Expansion

April 27, 2009

A significant expansion of the NCNR is underway. The project comprises development of a new cold neutron moderator, and a new guide hall with five state-of-the

photo of submarine

NIST Research Collaboration Spies Galfenol's Inner Beauty Mark

March 24, 2009

The sonar on submarines may get far more sensitive ears in the near future thanks to a mysterious compound developed by the military. Developed over a decade

Magnetism Governs Properties of Iron-Based Superconductors

March 24, 2009

Though a year has passed since the discovery of a new family of high-temperature superconductors, a viable explanation for the iron-based materials' unusual

overhead photo of MACS

Nanotechnologists Gain Powerful New Materials Probe

February 24, 2009

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and The Johns Hopkins University have constructed a unique tool for exploring the

refrigeration cycle flow chart

For Refrigeration Problems, a Magnetically Attractive Solution

January 27, 2009

Your refrigerator's humming, electricity-guzzling cooling system could soon be a lot smaller, quieter and more economical thanks to an exotic metal alloy

semiconductor graphic illustration

Neutron Researchers Discover Widely Sought Property in Magnetic Semiconductor

November 25, 2008

Researchers working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated for the first time the existence of a key magnetic—as opposed

iron-based high-temperature superconductor

Iron-based Materials May Unlock Superconductivity's Secrets

November 12, 2008

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are decoding the mysterious mechanisms behind the high-temperature superconductors that

Researchers determined that a new material for fuel cells releases oxygen ions easily at low temperatures

Oxygen Ions for Fuel Cells Get Loose at Low(er) Temperatures

June 24, 2008

Seeking to understand a new fuel cell material, a research team working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in collaboration with the

NCNR's thermal triple-axis spectrometer

New Iron-based and Copper-Oxide High-Temperature Superconductors Share Key Magnetic Properties

May 28, 2008

GAITHERSBURG, MD—In the initial studies of a new class of high-temperature superconductors discovered earlier this year, research at the Commerce Department's

atomic structure of the mix of lithium amide with lightweight metal hydrides

Improved Ion Mobility Is Key to New Hydrogen Storage Compound

May 13, 2008

A materials scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has deciphered the structure of a new class of materials that can store

Disorder Enables Extreme Sensitivity in Piezoelectric Materials

May 13, 2008

A research team working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has found an explanation for the extreme sensitivity to mechanical pressure

More Solid than Solid: A Potential Hydrogen-Storage Compound

April 1, 2008

One of the key engineering challenges to building a clean, efficient, hydrogen-powered car is how to design the fuel tank. Storing enough raw hydrogen for a

NIST Develops Test Method for Key Micromechanical Property

January 8, 2008

Engineers and researchers designing and building new microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) can benefit from a new test method developed at the National

New Paper Reveals Nanoscale Details of Photolithography Process

December 12, 2007

Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have made the first direct measurements of the infinitesimal expansion and collapse of

Probing a Rare Material Spin State at NIST

September 13, 2007

A team of international physicists that includes researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has found experimental evidence of a

Neutrons Reveal Quantum Order in Solid-State System

August 3, 2007

It's a truism that the world looks very different through the eyes of quantum mechanics. In a new paper appearing in Science, an international team of