Materials Science: Research Guide

Picture this: You have a bag of heavily used clothes that can no longer be donated taking up space in your closet, so you drop it off at your local recycling

Sensors capable of detecting individual photons of visible light have become essential for applications ranging from imaging faint galaxies to quantum computing

The National Construction Safety Team has reached an important milestone in its investigation into the 2021 partial collapse of Champlain Towers South.

103.5 pounds (47 kilograms) – that’s the average amount of textile waste each American produced in 2018. Things like clothing, footwear, sheets, towels, and

Today, the Biden-Harris Administration announced a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for activities that will use cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI)

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has published the Drug Detection, Analysis, and Monitoring Workshop Report , which identifies

Using strands of DNA to create miniature hinges that pop open or shut when binding to specific molecules, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and

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

Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce issued a Notice of Intent (NOI) to announce an open competition demonstrating how AI can assist in developing new

The security and stability of the United States’ national manufacturing and critical infrastructure supply chains are vital to the health, security, and growth

The third Series-5 release of SRD31 is now commercially available and provides users with processing information for more than 200 material systems not

Work continues to determine cause of the 2021 tragedy and to develop science-based recommendations to improve building safety.

Research using neutron beams provides an economic return far larger than the cost of building and operating neutron facilities, according to an economic impact

Researchers have created orange, yellow and green lasers tiny enough to fit on a chip.

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.

Beers managed NIST’s Circular Economy Program, which supports the nation’s transition to an economy in which materials retain their value through repeated

By modifying a refrigerator commonly used in both research and industry, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have

Media Contact: Madeline Broas, madeline.broas [at] chips.gov (madeline[dot]broas[at]chips[dot]gov) WASHINGTON—Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced significant interest in its funding

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

The meeting will be livestreamed each day.

Six universities will create programs to help develop solutions to problems created by the production and consumption of plastics.

Media Contact: Maddy Broas, madeline.broas [at] chips.gov (madeline[dot]broas[at]chips[dot]gov) . Today, the Biden-Harris Administration announced that the U.S. Department of Commerce and GlobalFoundries

New insights can help scientists make superconducting materials more robust and useful.

Perched atop a high plateau in Chile’s Atacama Desert, a long-awaited observatory is beginning to take shape: the largest suite of ground-based telescopes

Researchers have created a prototype quantum computer with a record number of qubits—the analog of bits in an ordinary computer—capable of performing logical

A series of catastrophic failures in U.S. ships during World War II prompted the start of a program still in existence and going strong at NIST.

A single-atom-thick sheet of carbon known as graphene has remarkable properties on its own, but things can get even more interesting when you stack up multiple

WASHINGTON—Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced a funding opportunity for smaller supply chain projects and businesses to access CHIPS for America

Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) with colleagues elsewhere have employed neutron imaging and a reconstruction algorithm