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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced today that it has selected a consortium led by Northwestern University to establish a new
Officials at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced today an award of $25 million over five years to a Chicago-based consortium
Allan Harvey, a chemical engineer in the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Material Measurement Laboratory, has been elected as a fellow of
There may be more kinds of stuff than we thought. A team of researchers has reported possible evidence for a new category of solids, things that are neither
Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of North Carolina have demonstrated a new design for an instrument
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today announced that it plans to establish a new Advanced Materials Center of Excellence to facilitate
A newly synthesized material might provide a dramatically improved method for separating the highest-octane components of gasoline. Measurements at the National
For the first time, scientists working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated a new type of lens that bends and focuses
An old, somewhat passé, trick used to purify protein samples based on their affinity for water has found new fans at the National Institute of Standards and
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued a call for grant proposals for a broad range of potential research projects covering the
A team of researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has shown that by bringing gold nanoparticles close to the dots and using a
A research team including scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has confirmed long-standing suspicions among physicists that
A research group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed a relatively simple, fast and effective method of depositing uniform
Using an enhanced form of "chemical microscopy" developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), researchers there have shown that they
Researchers from the NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology and Arizona State University have used an environmental scanning transmission electron
Online registration is now open for Forensics@NIST 2012, a three-day symposium on cutting-edge forensic science research being performed at NIST. The symposium
A team of researchers from the NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, and the University of Maryland
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in concert with the FlexTech Alliance, will hold a workshop on "Flexible Printed Electronics
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is launching a new consortium that will take the measure of a growing and increasingly important class
One of the most influential collections of materials data at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is now not only bigger than ever but also
Shaffique Adam, an NRC Postdoctoral Research Associate in the NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, has been awarded a 2012 Singapore National
Today, at a White House event, leaders from industry, academia, national labs, and government announced more than a dozen new commitments to advance the
Gaithersburg, Md.—An international team of researchers including scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has found what may be
A new study by a team including scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) indicates that thin polymer films can have different