Analytical chemistry

News and Updates

Two vials, one with heroin and one with an equivalent dose of fentanyl, which is a much smaller amount.

New Protocol for Measuring Background Levels of Drugs in Crime Labs

September 25, 2018

When crime lab chemists handle evidence that contains illegal drugs, trace amounts of those drugs are inevitably...

Giant metal tubs are being opened and white vapor is puffing up into the face of one researcher who is in a protective suit with hood, gloves and eye protection. In the background, several other suited researchers discuss something.

Staying Chill, Even When Disaster Strikes

When most people prepare for a hurricane, they buy food and water. But when scientist Amanda Moors sees one of those...

Data-Sharing Website May Speed Response to New Illegal Drugs

July 05, 2018

The drug overdose epidemic currently gripping the nation is so tenacious in part because it’s being driven by fentanyl...

Recent Patent Activity within ACMD

June 07, 2018

A provisional patent by Tom Bruno and Kim Urness of the Applied Chemicals and Materials Division on Inductive Flash...

Publications

A status of temporal trends of persistent organic pollutants in Arctic biota

February 01, 2019

Author(s):

Frank Riget, Anders Bignert, Birgit Braune, Maria Dam, Rune Dietz, Marlene Evans, Norman Green, Helga Gunnlaugsdottir, Katrin S. Hoydal, John R. Kucklick, Robert Letcher, Derek Muir, Stacy S. Schuur, Christian Sonne, Stern Gary, Gregg Tomy, Katrin Vorkamp, Simon Wilson

More than 1000 time-series of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in Arctic biota from marine and freshwater ecosystems some extending back to the beginning...

CCQM-K131 Low-Polarity Analytes in a Multicomponent Organic Solution: Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) in Acetonitrile

November 30, 2018

Author(s):

David L. Duewer, Lane C. Sander, Stephen A. Wise

Solutions of organic analytes of known mass fraction are typically used to calibrate the measurement processes used to determine these compounds in matrix...

CCQM-K95.1 Low-Polarity Analytes in a Botanical Matrix: Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) in Tea

November 30, 2018

Author(s):

David L. Duewer, Jacolin A. Murray, Laura J. Wood, Stephen A. Wise

Extraction, chromatographic separation, and quantification of low-concentration organic compounds in complex matrices are core challenges for reference...

Health Assessment Measurements Quality Assurance Program: Exercise 1 Final Report

November 19, 2018

Author(s):

Charles A. Barber, Bruce A. Benner Jr., Jeanice M. Brown Thomas, Carolyn Q. Burdette, Johanna Camara, Stephen E. Long, Jacolin A. Murray, Melissa M. Phillips, Benjamin J. Place, Catherine A. Rimmer, Laura J. Wood, Susan Tai, Siva K. Chinthalapati, Lee L. Yu

The NIST Health Assessment Measurements Quality Assurance Program (HAMQAP) was launched in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of...

Projects & Programs

Metabolomics Quality Assurance and Quality Control Materials (MetQual) Program

The NIST Metabolomics Quality Assurance and Quality Control Materials (MetQual) Program has been created to demonstrate and improve the comparability of...

Biomaterials for Oral Health

Our goal is to enable the development and manufacturing of biomaterials for oral health moving forward in 21st century by providing critical measurement...

Understanding the Bioaccumulation of Gadolinium-Based Contrast Agents using Advanced Measurement Capabilities

Gadolinium-Based Contrast Agents (GBCA) are intravenous drugs used in diagnostic imaging procedures to enhance the quality of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI...

Method Assessment for Non-Targeted Analyses (MANTA) Program

The MANTA Program is an ongoing collaboration with laboratories to increase the comparability and reproducibility of their results using non-targeted analysis...

Software

NIST Mass and Fragment Calculator Software

The NIST Mass and Fragment Calculator is a program written in Visual Basic which calculates the mass of an input peptide or protein sequence along with m/z...

NIST DTSA-II

NIST DTSA-II builds on the best available algorithms in the literature to simulate, quantify and plan energy dispersive x-ray analysis measurements.

JB95 Spectral fitting program

A graphical user interface program, JB95 , based on a Windows 95 © API platform has been written in the C programming language to aid in the analysis of...

Custom Lifetime Imaging Platform (CLIP)

CLIP is an analysis program for fluorescence lifetime images. It provides the user with the ability to fit or calculate the phasor plots for lifetime decays...

Analytical chemistry

News and Updates

New Protocol for Measuring Background Levels of Drugs in Crime Labs

Staying Chill, Even When Disaster Strikes

Data-Sharing Website May Speed Response to New Illegal Drugs

Recent Patent Activity within ACMD

Publications

A status of temporal trends of persistent organic pollutants in Arctic biota

CCQM-K131 Low-Polarity Analytes in a Multicomponent Organic Solution: Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) in Acetonitrile

CCQM-K95.1 Low-Polarity Analytes in a Botanical Matrix: Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) in Tea

Health Assessment Measurements Quality Assurance Program: Exercise 1 Final Report

Projects & Programs

Metabolomics Quality Assurance and Quality Control Materials (MetQual) Program

Biomaterials for Oral Health

Understanding the Bioaccumulation of Gadolinium-Based Contrast Agents using Advanced Measurement Capabilities

Method Assessment for Non-Targeted Analyses (MANTA) Program

Software

NIST Mass and Fragment Calculator Software

NIST DTSA-II

JB95 Spectral fitting program

Custom Lifetime Imaging Platform (CLIP)

Tools & Instruments

Continuous-wave terahertz spectrometer

TESCAN MIRA3 for automated electron microscopy

Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy

Milli X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometer