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Survey of agricultural plastic waste in the American Midwest: usage and disposal

January 1, 2026
Author(s)
Julie Rieland, Christina Gore, Kalman Migler, Kathryn Beers
An estimated 4 % of global plastics are used for agricultural applications in forms such as films, jugs, fence posts, and hoses. However, there is limited data on actual use, and more importantly on its fate at end of life. We first present a comprehensive

Chemical Kinetics and Fire

December 31, 2025
Author(s)
Gregory Linteris, John Griffiths
The purpose of this chapter is to set out the principles of chemical kinetics as they apply to combustion in flames and fires. Chemical equilibrium, which was discussed in a previous chapter, deals with the final preferred state of a given set of reactants

A comparative study of time on Mars with lunar and terrestrial clocks

December 1, 2025
Author(s)
Neil Ashby, Bijunath Patla
As space exploration extends into cislunar space and further towards Mars, understanding the relativistic effects on clocks on Mars—particularly in relation to multi-body gravitational influences—becomes increasingly important for accurate clock

Certification of Standard Reference Material(R) 1947a: Great Lakes Fish Tissue

November 28, 2025
Author(s)
Carolyn Burdette, Kelsey Blevins, Ashley Russell, Colleen Bryan Sallee, Amy Cuthbertson, Debra Ellisor, Nathanael Heckert, Jennifer Hoguet, Kevin Huncik, Amanda Moors, Jennifer Ness, Jessica Reiner
Standard Reference Material (SRM) 1947a Great Lakes Fish Tissue is intended to be used in the evaluation of analytical methods for the determination of contaminants, including mercury, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), chlorinated pesticides

NIST Workshop Report: Whole Community Preparedness in Smart Cities and Communities

November 28, 2025
Author(s)
William Dunaway, Cheyney O'Fallon, Wenqi Guo, Thomas Roth
In August 2024, the Smart Connected Systems Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) conducted a workshop entitled, "Whole Community Preparedness in Smart Cities and Communities." The purpose of the workshop was to determine

Wind-Driven Fire Spread to a Structure from Composite Fences

November 26, 2025
Author(s)
Kathryn Butler, Erik Johnsson, Marco Fernandez, Shonali Nazare, Alexander Maranghides
Field observations show that combustible landscaping features are a common pathway leading fire spread directly to homes during wildland-urban interface (WUI) fires. NIST is studying how these features near a home burn to better understand their levels of

Towards Automating IoT Security: Implementing Trusted Network-Layer Onboarding

November 25, 2025
Author(s)
Michael Fagan, Jeffrey Marron, Murugiah Souppaya, Paul Watrobski, Karen Kent, Blaine Mulugeta, Susan Symington
This document provides an overview of trusted Internet of Things (IoT) device network-layer onboarding, a capability for securely providing IoT devices with their local network credentials in a manner that helps to ensure that the network is not put at

Trusted Internet of Things (IoT) Device Network-Layer Onboarding and Lifecycle Management: Enhancing Internet Protocol-Based IoT Device and Network Security

November 25, 2025
Author(s)
Jeffrey Marron, Michael Fagan, Murugiah Souppaya, Paul Watrobski, Blaine Mulugeta, Susan Symington, William Barker, Joshua Klosterman, Charles Rearick, Chelsea Deane, Dan Harkins, Danny Jump, Michael Richardson, Andy Dolan, Kyle Haefner, Craig Pratt, Darshak Thakore, Peter Romness, Tyler Baker, David Griego, Brecht Wyseur, Nick Allott, Alexandru Mereacre, Ashley Setter, Julien Delplancke, Steve Clark, Mike Dow, Steve Egerter, Karen Kent
Establishing trust between a network and an Internet of Things (IoT) device (as defined in NIST Internal Report 8425) prior to providing the device with the credentials it needs to join the network is crucial for mitigating the risk of potential attacks

Safeguarding International Science: Research Security Framework

November 21, 2025
Author(s)
Gregory Strouse, Claire Saundry, Timothy Wood, Philip Bennett, Mary Bedner, Jeremy Schultz
The U.S. science and research ecosystem retains its leadership by actively engaging with the global community through the conduct of mutually beneficial collaborative research and the welcoming of international scientists. Coupled with that, the national

Environmental Measurements: A Needs Assessment

November 19, 2025
Author(s)
Julia Marrs, David Allen, Gerald Fraser
A summary is provided of the presentations, discussion, and findings from a two-and-a-half-day workshop on environmental measurements focusing on needs for new measurement science and measurement standards to support the characterization of ecological

Compatibility of trapped ions and dielectrics at cryogenic temperatures

November 17, 2025
Author(s)
Margaret Bruff, Lindsay Sonderhouse, Kaitlyn David, Daniel Slichter, Dietrich Leibfried, Jules Stuart
We study the impact of an unshielded dielectric\textemdash here, a bare optical fiber\textemdash on a $^40}$Ca$^+}$ ion held several hundred $\mu$m away in a cryogenic surface electrode trap. We observe distance-dependent stray electric fields of up to a

AI and Flow Cytometry

November 10, 2025
Author(s)
Dawei Lin, Anupama Gururaj, Sheng Lin-Gibson, Lili Wang
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are transforming biotechnology and playing a key role in bioeconomy. One of the most important measurement capabilities at the forefront of biotechnology innovations is flow cytometry (FCM), a high

Multi-timescale Frequency-Phase Matching for High-Yield Nonlinear Photonics

November 6, 2025
Author(s)
Mahmoud Jalali Mehrabad, Lida Xu, Gregory Moille, Christopher Flower, Supratik Sarkar, Apurva Padhye, Shao-Chien Ou, Daniel Suarez-Ferero, Mahdi Ghafariasl, Yanne K. Chembo, Kartik Srinivasan, Mohammad Hafezi
Integrated nonlinear photonics struggles to deliver wafer-scale functional device yields: Nanometer-level fabrication variations compromise the strict frequency-phase matching mandated by energy- and momentum-conserving nonlinear processes. We introduce

The structure and morphology of single-component oligomeric RNA delivery vectors derived from amphiphilic Charge-Altering Releasable Transporters

November 6, 2025
Author(s)
Paul Hurst, Yuan Jia, Summer Ramsay-Burrough, Rebecca McClellan, Joshua Arens, Samuel Khasnavis, Trevor del Castillo, Mahmoud AbdElwakil, Michael Lueckheide, Vivek Prabhu, Robert Waymouth
Recent advances in nucleic acid delivery have been inspired by efforts to mimic the function of natural viruses through the development of self-assemblies capable of transporting oligonucleotides across the cell and endosomal membranes. Lipid nanoparticles

AI-Powered ParaView for NIST: Enabling Accessible Scientific Visualization

November 3, 2025
Author(s)
Simon Su, William Sherman, Judith Terrill
This position paper outlines the research agenda for National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)'s AI-Powered ParaView effort and how the research directly addresses and supports multiple action items within the America's AI Action Plan. How this
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