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What's next for metabolomics?

September 17, 2026
Author(s)
Tracey Johnston, Corey Broeckling, Clary Clish, Valerie Copie, Arthur S. Edison, Ulrich Gunther, Ewy Mathe, Vanessa Phelan, Robert Powers, Daniel Raftery, Nichole Reisdorph, Dajana Vuckovic, David S Wishart, Elizabeth Want
Metabolomics has become a mainstream approach that examines the metabolic composition of biological systems in relation to their physiological and disease states. Using analytical techniques such as nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and mass

Supporting Reviewing of Thermophysical and Thermochemical Research Publications (IUPAC Technical Report)

September 7, 2026
Author(s)
Vladimir Diky, Ala Bazyleva, Debra Audus, Peter Dvorak, Ursula Kattner, Demian Riccardi, Jens Abildskov, Andrzej Anderko, Marc Assael, Olivier Baudouin, Jean-Charles de Hemptinne, Ralf Dohrn, J.Richard Elliott, Johan Jacquemin, Jean-Noel JAUBERT, Kevin Joback, Mohammad Khoshkbarchi, Georgios Kontogeorgis, Herbert Loria, Paul Mathias, Darrell Nordstrom, John O'Connell, Charles Oakes, Livio RUFFINE, Bastian Schmid, Cara Schwarz, Jeff Smith, Ana Soto, Vojtech Stejfa, Martin Trusler, Vaclav Vins, Boris Wilthan, Dzmitry Zaitsau
In order to support scientific reviewing in the area of material property research and make reviewing process easier and more efficient, checklists covering typical problems, lists of available resources, and computer-based tools helping to compose

Horizon Scanning to Identify Emerging Environmental Health Concerns: Community-Based Strategies to Shift from Reactive to Proactive Approaches

September 4, 2026
Author(s)
Chad Blystone, Kirsten Overdahl, Helen Cunny, Heather Henry, Kyle Messier, Sonika Patial, Stephanie Smith-Roe, Valerie Adams, Rebecca Clewell, Jennifer Couch, Christine Fisher (ODonnell), Christopher Green, Patricia Grace Tee Lewis, Vivek Mathrani, Karen Mumy, Paula Panzino, Benjamin Place, Elin Ulrich, Marc Williams, Ruth Lunn
Emerging environmental threats increasingly challenge public health systems, and these risks often outpace the ability of scientists and policymakers to respond effectively. To address this gap, horizon scanning offers a proactive approach to identify

A Reference Low-Pressure CO2 Adsorption Isotherm for Zeolite 13X: Results of an Interlaboratory Study

August 28, 2026
Author(s)
Huong Giang Nguyen, David Newton, Riaz Ahmad, Carsten Prinz, Mario Zorrilla-Valtierra, Krista Walton, Killian Gmyrek, Ronny Pini, Camille Petit, Marcus Lange, Jens Mollmer, Evelyn Fuhrmann, Katharina Volz, Garrett Taggart, Andreas Schreiber, Yuko Konishi, Kazuyuki Nakai, Christos Tampaxis, Theodore Steriotis, Hai Wang, Charles David Brewster, Mi Tian, Rajan Jagpal, Siyi Liu, George Neville, Sunanda Sain, Timothy Mays, Riccardo Rea, Enzo Mangano, Stefano Brandani, Maxwell Tsipoaka, Fateme Rezaei, Adrien Houze, Nicolas Heymans, Guy De Weireld, Charles Holland, Armin D. Ebner, James Ritter
This paper reports the results of an international interlaboratory study sponsored by the Versailles Project on Advanced Materials and Standards (VAMAS) and led by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) on the measurement of low-pressure

Methods for Estimating Fe Redox in Mesoamerican Jadeite Jade

August 5, 2026
Author(s)
Edward P. Vicenzi, Thomas Lam, Evan Jahrman, Bruce Ravel, Melinda Dyar, Jamie Weaver
Green jadeite has been selectively mined and used by Mesoamerican Indigenous cultures for centuries, with the green hues resulting from interactions among various chromophores, including Cr3+, Fe3+, and Fe2+. This study employed Fe K-edge X-ray absorption

Challenges and research opportunities in chemical thermodynamics, thermophysics, and material property science

July 31, 2026
Author(s)
Vladimir Diky, Tausif Altamash, Marc Assael, Ala Bazyleva, Ralf Dohrn, Peter Dvorak, Jose Fonseca, Johan Jacquemin, Georgios Kontogeorgis, Joerg Krafczyk, Herbert Loria, Demian Riccardi, Bastian Schmid, Vojtech Stejfa, Jadran Vrabec, Thorsten Windmann
A new web service for sharing unresolved inconsistencies and unexplained anomalies in thermophysical data has been launched. The goals of this service are to encourage researchers to solve these problems, reveal the needs for additional theoretical and

Opioid sensing at point-of-need

July 29, 2026
Author(s)
Thinh Bui, Edward Sisco, Kyle Chapkin, Wenqi Zhu, Junyeob Song, Dhruv Forma, Anthony Kearsley, Henri Lezec
The opioid epidemic, headlined by synthetic fentanyl, is a growing international concern that has especially garnered great attention in the United States at all levels of government. As a federal agency, the National Institute of Technology (NIST) was

Ozone as an oxidant for accelerated testing of pyrrhotite-induced concrete degradation

July 27, 2026
Author(s)
Michael Mengason, Patrick Dixon, Ashley Carey, Osamah Dehwah, Stephanie Watson
The iron-sulfide mineral pyrrhotite used in some home foundation construction is known to oxidize and form minerals deleterious to the concrete. The long timescale of the oxidation and deterioration requires a method of accelerated aging to study the

Structure-Property Relationships for Biodegradability in Copolyesters

June 18, 2026
Author(s)
Katharina Fransen, Julia Casey, Gabrielle Godbille-Cardona, Natalie Mamrol, Jiale Shi, Alex Zappi, Jignesh Mahajan, Jiarui Lu, Debra Audus, Bradley Olsen
With growing concerns about increasing plastic pollution, interest in biodegradable polymers, particularly polyesters, continues to grow. Copolymerization is an important molecular handle to tune properties to achieve material performance and

Photopolymer Additive Manufacturing 2025 Workshop Report: Building a Unified Vision from Research to Regulation

June 10, 2026
Author(s)
Callie Higgins, Jason Killgore, Mike Idacavage, Vince Anewenter, Mickey Fortune, Gary Cohen, Perri Katzman, Jessica Hemond, Spencer Loveless, Michael Gould
The third biannual Photopolymer Additive Manufacturing Alliance Workshop was held on September 15-16, 2025, at the University of Colorado Boulder to continue its mission of advancing photopolymer additive manufacturing (PAM). Building on the 2023 PAMA

Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in Stressed Structural Firefighter Gloves and Hoods, and Wildland Firefighter Coats, Shirts, and Pants

May 12, 2026
Author(s)
Andre Thompson, Andrew Maizel, Audrey Tombaugh, Halen Solomon, Bruce Benner, Alix Rodowa, Michelle Donnelly, Rick Davis
Structural and Wildland firefighter gear textiles have been found to contain per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), representing a potential source of exposure for firefighters. In this study, structural firefighter turnout gear refers to only the

Standardization of 243Am

May 2, 2026
Author(s)
Madeleine Bodine, Lizbeth Laureano-Perez, Ronald Colle, Justin Wilde, Ryan Fitzgerald, Leticia Pibida, Jerome LaRosa, Adam Pearce, Richard Essex, Denis Bergeron
Americium's longest-lived isotope, americium-243, has a half-life of 7367(23) years. It decays into neptunium-239 through alpha decay. Americium has a few practical uses: as a monitor for radioactive contamination and as a tracer for radiochemical

Interlaboratory Comparison with a Reference Measurement Procedure (RMP) for Determining 24,25-Dihydroxvitamin D3 in Human Serum using Liquid Chromatography - Tandem Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS/MS)

April 28, 2026
Author(s)
Stephen Wise, Ekaterina Mineva, Christine Pfeiffer, Hubert Vesper, Etienne Cavalier, Stephenie Peters, Karen Galvin, Kevin Cashman, Andrew Norbert Hoofnagle, Hsuan-Chieh (Joyce) Liao, Emma Williams, Laura Briggs, Adam Kuszak, Grace Hahm, Johanna Camara
An interlaboratory comparison study was conducted among five laboratories for determination of 24,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 [24,25(OH)2D3] in human serum using liquid chromatography - tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) methods. The Centers for Disease

Ion-Pair Speciation in Aqueous Alkali Fluorides from Nuclear Magnetic Resonance of 19 F

April 9, 2026
Author(s)
Malgorzata Musial, Samantha Miller, Christopher Suiter, Heidi Klem, Eugene Paulechka, Kathleen Schwarz, Jason Widegren, Demian Riccardi
We demonstrate that a combination of multiscale modeling and experimental 19F NMR can be used to examine the molecular details of how ion-pair speciation changes with temperature and molality. Excellent agreement with experimental 19F NMR chemical shifts

Result harmonization in medical laboratories: accomplishments and challenges.

March 13, 2026
Author(s)
Tony Badrick, Ralf D. Josephs, Liesbet Deprez, Christa Cobbaert, VINCENT DELATOUR, Christian Vogl, Katleen Van Uytfanghe, Ashley Green, Sverre Sandberg
The Joint Committee for Traceability in Laboratory Medicine was established in 2002 in response to the implementation of the European Community Directive 98.79/EC on in vitro medical devices. The Committee consisted of representatives from the

Nanodiscs formation process studied by contrast variation-SANS

February 26, 2026
Author(s)
Lea Poskin, Lionel Porcar, Sylvain Prevost, Ryan Murphy, Catherine Michaux, Anne Martel
Membrane proteins are essential for cellular communication and are frequently key targets for pharmaceutical intervention. However, their structural and dynamical characterization remains limited due to challenges associated with protein production and in

Enhanced Photostability through Rapid Exciton Decay in Desymmetrized Cyclopentannulated Acenes with Strong Face-to-Face pi Stacking

January 28, 2026
Author(s)
Chad Cruz, Karl Thorley, Zachary Knepp, Jared Wahlstrand, Gil Repa, John Stephenson, Sean Parkin, Lisa Fredin, John Anthony, Emily Bittle
The photophysics of organic semiconductors impacts their efficiency in optoelectronic devices where exciton transitions, including singlet fission, intersystem crossing and the formation of charge transfer states influence the ability to convert between

Vapor pressure measurements on D9-tetrahydrocannabinol, cannabidiol, and cannabinol to inform cannabis breathalyzer development

January 26, 2026
Author(s)
Cheryle Beuning, Jennifer Berry, Eugene Paulechka, Marcia Huber, Kavita Jeerage, Jason Widegren, Tara Lovestead
Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the main psychoactive compound in cannabis, and other drug molecules that have large molar masses, are often described as "nonvolatile" and are presumed to be carried in exhaled breath aerosols. Large variabilities in THC

Certification of Standard Reference Material(R) 2890a Water in 1-Octanol

January 8, 2026
Author(s)
Brian Lang, Jacolin Murray, Adam Pintar
Standard Reference Material (SRM) 2890a Water in 1-Octanol is intended for use in validating methods and calibrating instruments for the measurement of trace concentration levels of water. SRM 2890a is a solution of water in 1-octanol which is certified
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