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Carbon nanotubes

Carbon Nanotubular: SURFing into the Sciences

May 5, 2017
Andrew Gayle
I’m a bit of a romantic when it comes to science. When anyone asks what inspires me to be a scientist, I tell them that it’s amazing to add to the collective knowledge of humanity. NIST is the kind of place where that happens every day. Until I went to college, I had lived my whole life within a
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Revolution by Design: The Materials Genome Initiative

August 17, 2016
Jim Warren
The creation of a new material has long been either an accident or a matter of trial and error. Steel, for instance, was developed over hundreds of years by people who didn’t know why what they were doing worked (or didn’t work). Generations of blacksmiths observed that iron forged in charcoal was