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Charpy Machine Verification Program

Ongoing
Impact testing is required for many critical applications in the construction, machinery and equipment, defense, and energy markets. Charpy testing provides data needed to ensure the quality and reliability of structural steel products. Over 1,000 machines per year are evaluated for conformance with

Chemical/Biochemical Microsensor Science

Ongoing
Our research is focused on the basic and applied aspects of chemical sensor science and technology in the following areas: The development and evaluation of nanoscale materials, e.g., nanowires and nanotubes, for high-performance chemical sensing of gas-phase species Novel approaches for low-cost

Chemical Characterization of Nanoparticles

Ongoing
NIST has a broad research program spread throughout the major operating units aimed at building the supporting technical capabilities that U.S. industry needs in their quest to develop new nanotech products with desirable new capabilities and bring them safely to market. The Chemical Sciences

Chemical Foundations for a Cannabis Breathalyzer

Ongoing
NIST's initial work in cannabis science was a series of measurements of the vapor pressure of two important cannabinoids: delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD). Our current effort is funded in part by interagency agreements with the National Institute of Justice and by the NIST

Chemical Functionalization and Manipulation of Nano Materials

Completed
This project focuses on manipulating nanomaterials, including weakly bonded van der Waals systems, and probing emergent phenomena in these nanoengineered systems to impact technologies such as nanoelectronics, optoelectronics, quantum sensing, and quantum computing. Developing processes to

Chemical Metrology for Metals, Ores, and Related Materials

Ongoing
In the arena of industrial commodities, the primary challenges are to provide measurement tools and reference materials that allow U.S. industry to establish comparability of measurement results to results obtained by customers, competitors, and regulators for the basic chemical properties of

Chemical Metrology for Polymers Manufacturing

Ongoing
This project is designed to strengthen the analytical capabilities of polymers manufacturers by introducing reference materials, critically evaluating standard test methods, and educating those industry representatives who participate in standards development organizations. Certified reference

Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cell line authentication

Ongoing
Intended impact To develop a PCR based multiplex assay that can be used to authenticate Chinese hamster ovary cell lines which are important in the production of biological therapeutics. Objectives Identify tetranucleotide STR markers by searching the CHO genome using BLAST Design and optimize a

Chip-scale ultraprecise laser technologies

Ongoing
Lasers with high spectral purity are used in a diverse application space, including coherent high-speed communications, physical sensing, and manipulation of quantum systems. Lab bench scale Fabry-Perot cavities based on sophisticated vibration, thermal, and atmospheric isolation have made possible

CHRNS Non-Equilibrium Structure of Materials Initiative

Ongoing
The MACS, vSANS, and CANDOR instruments will be upgraded to allow new approaches for time- resolved experiments. New hardware will allow CHRNS users to remotely reduce and analyze their data. New data formats that incorporate the multiple time-resolved data streams and a new methodology of

Circular Economy Closed Loop Recovery

Ongoing
Objective To define critical material and information pathways to support the development of closed-loop systems to establish reliable sources of secondary material feedstocks that divert critical resources away from landfills using material recovery strategies - recycling, remanufacturing, and

Circular Economy Product Design and Digital Thread

Ongoing
Objective The objective of the Circular Economy Product Design project is to develop methods and standards to create products intentionally designed to minimize waste and maximize resource efficiency throughout their entire lifecycle, resulting in positive social and environmental impacts. Technical

Citizens Broadband Radio Service

Ongoing
The FCC Part 96 rules establish a three-tier architecture for sharing the radiofrequency (RF) spectrum from 3550 MHz to 3700 MHz. Commercial users of the 3.5 GHz Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) band will share this spectrum with existing incumbents, including the federal government which

Classification of 3.5 GHz Spectrograms

Completed
This project compared various detection algorithms for federal incumbent radar signals in the 3550-3650 MHz band using a set of over 14,000 spectrograms collected by the completed Waveform Measurements of Radars Operating in the 3.5 GHz Band project. The results demonstrated that training deep

Classification Methods for the NIST Biorepository

Ongoing
NIST has been archiving biological and environmental specimens, including marine animal and environmental samples, for over 40 years. Currently, these biospecimens are stored at cryogenic temperatures in the NIST Biorepository located at the Hollings Marine Laboratory in Charleston, SC. Various

Climate Science

Ongoing
This program encompasses multifaceted efforts to advance the metrology of climate science. Projects include: development of ultra-high accuracy optical standards and technologies to determine greenhouse gases (GHGs) concentrations, atmospheric lifetimes, and aerosol radiative forcing development of

Clinical and Forensic Reference Materials

Ongoing
Below is a listing of the reference materials currently produced by the Applied Genetics group. Clinical Diagnostics SRM 2393 - CAG Repeat Length Mutation in Huntington`s Disease SRM 2365 - BK Virus DNA Quantitative Standard SRM 2366a - Cytomegalovirus DNA (Towne Δ147 BAC) for DNA SRM 2367 - JC

Clinical Measurements Quality Assurance Program

Ongoing
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) established the Clinical Measurements Quality Assurance Program (ClinQAP) to support the measurement needs of the clinical community. Participants measure concentrations of marker compounds, contaminants, metabolites in clinical samples (e.g

Cloud of Reproducible Records

Ongoing
Cloud of Reproducible Records (CoRR) CoRR is a Cloud Infrastructure for storing, disseminating, federating and collaborating on Reproducible Record atoms. It is composed of two Python Flask REST web services (Cloud and API), a cloud storage space, a MongoDB database and a Material Design AJAX web

Clutter Measurement

Ongoing
The Irregular Terrain Model (ITM) is a model for radio propagation that has been widely used for predicting the attenuation of a radio signal as a function of distance and the variability of the signal in time and in space. It was developed in the 1960 sand therefore does not fully utilize the

Coastal Inundation: Hazard Characterization and Structural Design

Ongoing
Objective - To develop next-generation methods and tools to better characterize coastal inundation hazards, associated loads, and response of structures, thus enabling performance-based standards for designing structures that resist coastal inundation. What is the new technical idea? Current design

CODATA values of the fundamental physical constants

Ongoing
CODATA recommended values of the constants Database of references for data on the constants Publications: Reviews of Modern Physics ( 1998) ( 2002) ( 2006) ( 2010) ( 2014) Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data ( 1998) ( 2006) ( 2010) Resource Letter FC-1: The physics of fundamental