Reference materials

News and Updates

SRM 3398 Ginger (Zingiber officinale) Rhiazhome

Indigestion? Try Some Ginger

January 19, 2021

What: SRM 3398 is a ground powder prepared from ginger rhizomes. A unit of SRM 3398 consists of 5 packets of material, each containing approximately 1.6 g of

A picture of vials of SRM 1992 and SRM 1993

NIST Collaboration Yields First Certified Reference Materials for Zeta Potential

January 19, 2021

Two new Standard Reference Materials from the National Institute of Standards and Technology give researchers and manufacturers a way to check the performance

A woman (Alix Rodowa) wearing a mask and a lab coat works with scientific equipment.

Spotlight: Alix Rodowa and PFAS in Groundwater

January 15, 2021

Water has fascinated postdoctoral researcher Alix Rodowa since her days in a high school environmental science club. Now, she takes a sample of life at NIST in

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

Measurements and Standards for Contaminants in Environmental Samples

For the past 40 years NIST has developed SRMs for the determination of inorganic and organic contaminants in environmental matrices such as sediments/soils

Publications

Utilization of NIST SRM: A case study for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in NIST SRM 1957 Organic Contaminants in Non-Fortified Human Serum

March 2, 2021

Author(s)

Alix E. Robel, Jessica L. Reiner

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) generates and maintains thousands of Standard Reference Materials (SRMs) to serve commerce worldwide

Evaluating Digital PCR for the Quantification of Human Nuclear DNA: Factors Influencing Target Strandedness

February 11, 2021

Author(s)

Margaret C. Kline, David L. Duewer

The presence of single stranded DNA (ssDNA) in an extract of nominally double stranded DNA (dsDNA) can lead digital polymerase chain reaction (dPCR)

SRM NIST Standard Reference Materials Catalog January 2021

February 11, 2021

Author(s)

Regina R. Montgomery

A Highly-enriched 244Pu Reference Material for Nuclear Safeguards and Nuclear Forensic Measurements

January 26, 2021

Author(s)

Richard M. Essex, Ross W. Williams, Kerri C. Treinen, Amelie Hubert, Marc A. Humphrey, Jeremy D. Inglis, William S. Kinman, Joel Maassen, Maxim V. Penkin, Robert E. Steiner

A highly-enriched 244Pu isotope dilution reference material has been prepared and characterized for metrologically traceable measurements of very small

Reference materials

News and Updates

Indigestion? Try Some Ginger

NIST Collaboration Yields First Certified Reference Materials for Zeta Potential

Spotlight: Alix Rodowa and PFAS in Groundwater

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

Measurements and Standards for Contaminants in Environmental Samples

Publications

Utilization of NIST SRM: A case study for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in NIST SRM 1957 Organic Contaminants in Non-Fortified Human Serum

Evaluating Digital PCR for the Quantification of Human Nuclear DNA: Factors Influencing Target Strandedness

SRM NIST Standard Reference Materials Catalog January 2021

A Highly-enriched 244Pu Reference Material for Nuclear Safeguards and Nuclear Forensic Measurements

Tools and Instruments

Reference transmittance densiometer

Color and appearance metrology facility

The Divergent Beam Diffractometer Laboratory

The Parallel Beam Diffractometer (PBD) Laboratory