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Tissue Engineering
Last Updated Date: 05/26/2016 Our goal is to develop reliable tools and standards for measuring the properties of cells, biomaterials, scaffolds and tissue-engineered … more
Water Measurement Science
Last Updated Date: 05/13/2016 The Material Measurement Lab provides measurements, standards, and data to ensure availability and sustainability of our water resources. MML … more
HDX-MS for Biopharmaceutical Analysis
Last Updated Date: 05/10/2016 This project applies hydrogen/deuterium exchange mass spectrometry (HDX-MS) for determining the dynamical structure of therapeutic antibodies, … more
Metrology and Standards for Canine Olfactory Detection of Explosives
Last Updated Date: 05/05/2016 As part of a multi-year interagency agreement between the Office of Standards of the Department of Homeland Security and NIST, NIST is developing … more
Thermodynamics of Enzyme-catalyzed Reactions
Last Updated Date: 04/26/2016 To develop the thermodynamic data and methodology required for effective bioprocess engineering.
Fundamental Chemical Metrology
Last Updated Date: 04/26/2016 The Chemical Sciences Division serves as the Nation’s reference laboratory for chemical compositional measurements and standards to enhance U.S. … more
Optimization of the Standard Addition Method (SAM) Using
Last Updated Date: 04/26/2016 The standard addition method (SAM) was first described by oceanographers in 1955 to overcome matrix effects in the determination of strontium in … more
High-Precision Isotopic Reference Materials
Last Updated Date: 04/26/2016 Recent innovative advances in the design and manufacture of isotope ratio mass spectrometers (IRMS) have revolutionized the study of natural and … more
Potential Primary Measurement Tool for the Quantification of DNA
Last Updated Date: 04/26/2016 The accurate mass determination of DNA and other nucleic acids is of critical importance in many clinical diagnoses and in forensic and molecular … more
Study of Microheterogeneity in Solid Reference Materials
Last Updated Date: 04/26/2016 Microbeam X-ray fluorescence (µXRF) has been used nondestructively to investigate elemental heterogeneity by constructing two-dimensional maps of … more
Improving High-Performance Inductively-Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectrometry (HP-ICP-OES) Through Exact Matching
Last Updated Date: 04/26/2016 Using high-performance inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry (HP-ICP-OES), relative expanded uncertainties on the order of 0.2 % … more
pH Metrology
Last Updated Date: 04/26/2016 The pH metrology program supports traceability for pH measurements. This traceability rests on primary pH measurements in an ideal electrochemical … more
Evaluation of Independent High-Precision Assay Procedures for a High-Purity Primary Standard Reagent
Last Updated Date: 04/26/2016 NIST assigns assay values for a suite of high-purity reagents using two techniques: coulometry and titrimetry. Coulometry is based on Faraday's … more
Standard Solution SRMs Provide Traceability for Millions of Measurements
Last Updated Date: 04/26/2016 For decades, NIST has provided the SRM 3100 series single-element standard solutions. The certified values are traceable to the International … more
Multidimensional Chromatography
Last Updated Date: 04/26/2016 Both comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography (GCxGC) and comprehensive two-dimensional liquid chromatography (LCxLC) have emerged as … more |
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