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NIST Seeks Proposals to Establish New Center of Excellence on Advanced Materials Research

June 28, 2013

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced a competition to create an Advanced Materials Center of Excellence to foster...

NIST Announces Plan to Create Center of Excellence for Advanced Materials Research

June 24, 2013

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today announced that it plans to establish a new Advanced Materials Center of Excellence to facilitate...

New Filtration Material Could Make Petroleum Refining Cheaper, More Efficient

May 23, 2013

A newly synthesized material might provide a dramatically improved method for separating the highest-octane components of gasoline. Measurements at the National...

A NIST team has created an ultraviolet (UV) metamaterial formed of alternating nanolayers of silver (green) and titanium dioxide (blue)

The Better to See You With: Scientists Build Record-Setting Metamaterial Flat Lens

May 23, 2013

For the first time, scientists working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated a new type of lens that bends and focuses...

Shaking Things Up: NIST Researchers Propose New Old Way to Purify Carbon Nanotubes

April 30, 2013

An old, somewhat passé, trick used to purify protein samples based on their affinity for water has found new fans at the National Institute of Standards and...

NIST Issues Call for Measurement Science and Engineering Research Grant Proposals

February 6, 2013

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued a call for grant proposals for a broad range of potential research projects covering the...

DNA and Quantum Dots: All That Glitters is Not Gold

January 24, 2013

A team of researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has shown that by bringing gold nanoparticles close to the dots and using a...

For Newly Discovered 'Quantum Spin Liquid', the Beauty Is in Its Simplicity

December 19, 2012

A research team including scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has confirmed long-standing suspicions among physicists that...

Schematic shows self-quenched platinum deposition on a gold surface.

Novel NIST Process Is a Low-Cost Route to Ultrathin Platinum Films

December 12, 2012

A research group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed a relatively simple, fast and effective method of depositing uniform...

Typical BCARS composite image of a polyethylene blend

Mix Masters: NIST Scientists Image the Molecular Structure of Polymer Blends

November 27, 2012

Using an enhanced form of "chemical microscopy" developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), researchers there have shown that they...

Bright field transmission electron micrograph showing carbon nanotubes grown from an array of equally-sized iron catalyst particles created by electron beam-induced decomposition of a diiron nonacarbonyl precursor.

Researchers Observe, Control, and Optimize the Growth of Individual Carbon Nanotubes

October 31, 2012

Researchers from the NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology and Arizona State University have used an environmental scanning transmission electron...

Register Now for Forensics@NIST 2012

September 19, 2012

Online registration is now open for Forensics@NIST 2012, a three-day symposium on cutting-edge forensic science research being performed at NIST. The symposium...

Researchers Introduce New Method for Imaging Defects in Magnetic Nanodevices

September 12, 2012

A team of researchers from the NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, and the University of Maryland...

September Workshop to Explore the Measurement Needs of the Flexible Electronics Industry

September 5, 2012

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in concert with the FlexTech Alliance, will hold a workshop on "Flexible Printed Electronics...

Typical phase equilibria diagram developed at NIST

Prices are Down, Value is Up: The Newly Expanded ACerS-NIST Database

July 11, 2012

One of the most influential collections of materials data at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is now not only bigger than ever but also...

New NIST-led Consortium Aims to Improve Process for Making 'Soft Materials'

July 11, 2012

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is launching a new consortium that will take the measure of a growing and increasingly important class...

Shaffique Adam Receives Singapore National Research Foundation Fellowship

June 27, 2012

Shaffique Adam, an NRC Postdoctoral Research Associate in the NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, has been awarded a 2012 Singapore National...

New Commitments Support Administration's Materials Genome Initiative

May 14, 2012

Today, at a White House event, leaders from industry, academia, national labs, and government announced more than a dozen new commitments to advance the...

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