Chemistry Programs & Projects

Protein drugs are the top selling pharmaceuticals worldwide, a hundred billion dollar industry, but also the fastest growing category of health … more

Our goal is to provide measurement methods and reference materials to facilitate the rational design of polymeric dental materials, thus enabling … more

Our goal is to apply Quantum Information Processing techniques to improve neutron interferometry contrast by making our final measurement … more

Far-infrared (or terahertz/THz, ca. 25 to 300 micron wavelength) femtosecond pulsed laser and Fourier-transform infrared methods are employed to … more

Sensitive and fully state resolved spectroscopic methods in the terahertz (THz) and ultraviolet (UV) regions are being developed to investigate … more

We are developing a method for accurately quantifying greenhouse gas emissions from natural and anthropogenic sources and sinks to meet the … more

The major cause of deteriorating concrete in the infrastructure is corrosion of the reinforcing steel. This is the major mechanism of … more

Synthetic cell membrane constructs allow the simplification and complete control of a more complicated cellular system, as well as the … more

The Optical Medical Imaging program was established to advance the application of optical imaging in surgical, clinical, and medical practices. … more

 The Materials Genome Initiative will create a new era of materials innovation that will serve as a foundation for strengthening domestic … more

Components and devices used in a broad spectrum of technology sectors such as health care, communications, energy and electronics are manufactured … more

Our goal is to develop advanced measurement tools and standards for measuring scaffold properties and their impact on biological response.  

We have made available a method to characterize a fluorescence microscope's performance by benchmarking the detection threshold, saturation and … more

Flow meters that rely on measuring the pressure drop across a laminar flow element can be accurately calibrated using a benign surrogate gas (such … more

The International System of Units (SI) provides definitions of units of measurement that are widely accepted in science and technology and which … more