Thermochemical properties

News and Updates

Room Temperature Conversion of CO₂ to CO: A New Way to Synthesize Hydrocarbons

November 2, 2020

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their colleagues have demonstrated a room-temperature method that could

Vapor-Liquid Equilibria Article- the #1 Most Downloaded paper from the Journal of Chemical & Engineering Data

June 25, 2020

A paper from members of the Applied Chemicals and Materials Division has 762 downloads from the Journal of Chemical & Engineering Data in the last 30 days

American Chemical Society highlights NIST paper with Editor’s Choice Award

June 26, 2019

A recent manuscript published in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels was selected for the Editor’s Choice Award, which is given to just one paper every day across

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NIST Study Identifies Chemical Blends as Possible Alternative Refrigerants

May 29, 2019

More than a dozen chemical blends could serve as alternative refrigerants that won’t heat the atmosphere as much as today’s refrigerants do, or catch fire

Projects and Programs

Multiscale structure and dynamics in advanced technological materials

This project develops and applies metrologies and standards for characterizing microstructure and dynamics in advanced functional materials of technological

Identification, Suitability Testing, and Property Determination from Untargeted Measurements

Many polymeric fluids, including biotherapeutics and fuels, can have unusual physical behavior in solutions, and many applications require detailed knowledge of

Effect of Partial Charge Calculation Method on Adsorption Thermodynamics in Metal-organic Frameworks

In classical molecular simulations, electrostatic contributions to the potential energy are typically accounted for by assigning partial charges to some or all

The NIST Chemistry Webbook

The NIST Chemistry WebBook is a site on the Internet (http://webbook.nist.gov/) that provides convenient access to a variety of physical and chemical property

Publications

Laser-Driven Calorimetry and Chemometric Quantification of Standard-Reference-Material Diesel/Biodiesel Fuel Blends

July 14, 2020

Author(s)

Werickson Fortunato de Carvalho Rocha, Cary Presser, Shannon Bernier, Ashot Nazarian, David A. Sheen

Multivariate calibration methods were evaluated using the measured thermal signatures of 11 diesel/biodiesel fuel blends (including 4 repeated runs for each

Heat capacity and decomposition of rimantadine hydrochloride

January 30, 2020

Author(s)

Ala Bazyleva, Yauheni Paulechka, Dzmitry H. Zaitsau, Andrey V. Blokhin, Gennady J. Kabo

Heat capacities of antiviral drug rimantadine hydrochloride in the crystalline state were measured by adiabatic calorimetry and differential scanning

Covariance-based uncertainty analysis of reference equations of state

January 6, 2020

Author(s)

Howard Cheung, Jerome Frutiger, Ian H. Bell, Jens Abildskov, Gurkan Sin, Shengwei Wang

This work presents a detailed methodology for uncertainty analysis applied to a reference equation of state (EOS) based on Helmholtz energy. With increasing

Atomic-scale mechanism of unidirectional oxide growth

November 14, 2019

Author(s)

Xianhu Sun, Wenhui Zhu, Dongxiang WU, Zhenyu Liu, Xiaobo Chen, Lu Yuan, Guofeng Wang, Renu Sharma, Guangwen Zhou

A fundamental knowledge of the unidirectional growth mechanisms is required for precise control on size, shape, and thereby functionalities of nanostructures

Tools and Instruments

Nanocalorimeter Measurement System

This Nanocalorimeter Measurement System is used for nanocalorimetry measurements at fast heating rates (100 °C/s to 100,000 °C/s) and measurements of samples