Materials Science: Research Guide

A team of researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), University of Southern Mississippi, Arizona State University, Rensselaer

Julie is surveying farmers to see what types of plastics they use on their farms and what the barriers to recycling might be.

Auxetics defy common sense, widening when they’re stretched and narrowing when they’re compressed.

CHIPS Metrology Program The CHIPS Metrology Program leverages NIST’s proven measurement science expertise to conduct research on measurements that are accurate

This elongated test instrument, the first of its kind in the world, puts materials under two extreme conditions in fractions of seconds.

Using tiny laser-launched projectiles and troves of data, scientists can more quickly bridge the gap between a material’s microscopic properties and its real

NIST researchers are measuring the way different materials hold up when hit with the force of a speeding object.

Our researchers have developed ways of comparing fingerprint images captured through contact versus contactless processes.

Discovering diseases early can mean successful treatment for patients, but many diagnostic tests aren’t sensitive enough for early detection. That’s why NIST

Here’s something to smile about: We’re creating blood vessels on a chip. Researchers at NIST collaborated with the American Dental Association to 3D-print small

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Columbia Engineering have discovered a new method to improve the toughness of

The touch, the porosity of cotton, the biopolymer of postdoctoral associate Ashlee Aiello’s life. Cotton is the most abundant biopolymer (naturally produced

Not all plastics are the same, and they don’t all blend together well during recycling. At NIST, researchers are looking for ways to make recycled plastic

A research team has found that a method commonly used to skirt one of metal 3D printing’s biggest problems may be far from a silver bullet. For manufacturers

Putting the metalloid to the metal, researchers at Boise State University developed a new way to explore how a 3D-printed titanium alloy corrodes, and then

Hypothetical scenario: A car hurtles toward a tree and swerves to avoid it when the passenger door meets timber and deforms around it. As the driver, you don't

Cheaper refrigerators? Stronger hip implants? A better understanding of human disease? All of these could be possible and more, someday, thanks to an ambitious

Improve the material; improve life. NIST postdoctoral researcher Zhi Liang believes the development of humanity depends on the development of materials, and few

Impact in 3 … 2 … 1 … Meet Marcos Reyes-Martinez, a NIST researcher working to build new materials that could protect fragile items in transit, spacecraft

NIST scientists have found that very small changes in the structure of bottlebrush polymers prepared by “precision synthesis” result in measurable differences

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their collaborators have developed a way to retrofit the transmission electron

A method worth its metal — filling microscopic holes with gold can be tricky, but NIST scientist Daniel Josell is up for the challenge. A type of medical

A team at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed a tool to monitor changes in widely used composite materials known as fiber

Closing in on a clear picture: NIST's June Lau, in collaboration with Brookhaven National Lab and Euclid Techlabs, is giving us a freeze-frame look at the

Nanoparticle manufacturing, the production of material units less than 100 nanometers in size (100,000 times smaller than a marble), is proving the adage that

Nickels are ubiquitous in American life, tumbling around in pockets, rolling under car seats, and emerging from the back of dryers to be used over and over for

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have combined derivatives of two surplus materials—wood pulp and dried-up pieces of an

NIST is helping additive manufacturing, often referred to as 3D printing, mature from a potentially disruptive technology into a widespread industrial

Antiferromagnets have generated significant interest for future computing technologies due to their fast dynamics, their ability to generate and detect spin

Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new way to investigate the high-performance fibers used in modern body