Reference materials

News and Updates

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Spotlight: One Small Step for SRM 610 Aboard the Mars Perseverance Rover

July 20, 2021

3, 2, 1 … blast off! One of NIST’s very own standard reference materials traveled through space and landed on the Red Planet in February as part of the National

An Aid for Instrumentation for Measuring Active Compounds in Ginseng

July 12, 2021

Ginsenosides are thought to be the active compounds in ginseng, another plant long used in Chinese medicine that is now a popular supplement and the subject of

New NIST Reference Material Aids in Measurement of Cocoa's Active Molecules

July 1, 2021

Cocoa, the substance from which chocolate is made, is thought to have benefits to the human cardiovascular system and so has been the focus of many clinical

Projects and Programs

Trusted AI framework for a new class of Standard Reference Materials and Data with exquisitely characterized uncertainty for billions of properties

A new collaboration between NIST's Human Genomics Team, Mass Spectrometry Data Center, and Information Technology Laboratory to use and develop artificial

NIST Tools for Cannabis Laboratory Quality Assurance

The Chemical Sciences Division (CSD) at NIST is developing an integrated measurement services program for Forensic and Cannabis (hemp and marijuana)

Genome in a Bottle

Consortium hosted by NIST and JIMB dedicated to authoritative characterization of benchmark human genomes. Sign up for General GIAB and Analysis Team email

Polymer Suspensions & Emulsions

The goals of this project are to improve measurements of fluid structure and mechanical properties under a variety of flow conditions. We focus on fluids and

Publications

Challenges of Accuracy in Germline Clinical Sequencing Data

July 20, 2021

Author(s)

Justin Zook, Ryan Poplin, Mark DePristo

Physicians are increasingly using clinical sequencing tests to establish diagnoses of patients who might have genetic disorders, which means that accuracy of

Atomic Model Structure of the NIST Monoclonal Antibody (NISTmAb) Reference Material

July 15, 2021

Author(s)

Christina Bergonzo, David Gallagher

As monoclonal antibodies have become a vital resource in medicine, knowledge of their complex molecular structures has increased in importance. Thousands of

Polarization Effects of X-ray Monochromators Modeled Using Dynamical Scattering Theory

July 1, 2021

Author(s)

Marcus Mendenhall, David R. Black, Donald Windover, James Cline

The difference in the diffracted intensity of the sigma-and pi-polarized components of an X-ray beam in powder diffraction has generally been treated according

Dynamic light scattering distributions by any means

May 21, 2021

Author(s)

Natalia Farkas, John A. Kramar

Dynamic light scattering (DLS) is an essential technique for nanoparticle size analysis and has been employed extensively for decades, but despite its long

Reference materials

News and Updates

Spotlight: One Small Step for SRM 610 Aboard the Mars Perseverance Rover

An Aid for Instrumentation for Measuring Active Compounds in Ginseng

New NIST Reference Material Aids in Measurement of Cocoa's Active Molecules

Projects and Programs

Trusted AI framework for a new class of Standard Reference Materials and Data with exquisitely characterized uncertainty for billions of properties

NIST Tools for Cannabis Laboratory Quality Assurance

Genome in a Bottle

Polymer Suspensions & Emulsions

Publications

Challenges of Accuracy in Germline Clinical Sequencing Data

Atomic Model Structure of the NIST Monoclonal Antibody (NISTmAb) Reference Material

Polarization Effects of X-ray Monochromators Modeled Using Dynamical Scattering Theory

Dynamic light scattering distributions by any means

Tools and Instruments

Reference transmittance densiometer

Color and appearance metrology facility

The Divergent Beam Diffractometer Laboratory

The Parallel Beam Diffractometer (PBD) Laboratory