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Chemical/Biochemical Microsensor Science
Last Updated Date: 10/02/2012 The Process Sensing Group at NIST is investigating a range of fundamental and technological issues related to next-generation chemical and … more
NIST SRM for Reproducible Analyses of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
Last Updated Date: 10/02/2012 Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are one of the first major nanoscale manufactured products to enter the market. Therefore, reliable and reproducible … more
Environmental Leaching of Nanoparticles from Consumer Products
Last Updated Date: 10/02/2012 Nanoparticle-based consumer products are becoming available in the market at an increasing rate, but the safety of nanoparticles and the … more
AFM-Based Nanomechanics
Last Updated Date: 10/02/2012 Our goal is to provide tools for nanotechnology research and development that rapidly and nondestructively map the nanoscale mechanical properties … more
Assessing the Internal Structure and Composition of Climatically-Relevant Atmospheric Particles
Last Updated Date: 10/02/2012 Atmospheric particles with long atmospheric lifetimes affect Earth's radiative balance. These particles typically consist of multiple chemical … more
Superresolving Optical Microscopy
Last Updated Date: 10/02/2012 Light microscopy is a widely used analytical tool because it provides non-destructive, real-time, three-dimensional imaging with chemical and … more
Surface Potential Imaging of Solution Processable Acene-Based Thin Film Transistors
Last Updated Date: 10/02/2012 Scanning Kelvin probe microscopy (SKPM) of functioning solution processed thin film transistors is used to correlate film microstructure with … more
Trophic Transfer of Nanoparticles in a Simplified Invertebrate Food Web
Last Updated Date: 10/02/2012 We demonstrated that carboxylated and biotinylated quantum dots (QDs) can be transferred to higher trophic organisms (rotifers) through dietary … more
Mitigation of Systematic Errors in EFTEM Spectral Imaging via Median Filtering
Last Updated Date: 10/02/2012 A method has been developed for the removal from CCD images of point blemishes (PBs) ubiquitous in the acquisition of energy-filtered transmission … more
Evaluation of the Extent of Electron Scattering in a Low Vacuum Scanning Electron Microscope
Last Updated Date: 10/02/2012 Low vacuum scanning electron microscopes utilize gas molecules in the specimen chamber to neutralize the specimen charging from the impinging … more
DTSA-II Reinvention of a Classic
Last Updated Date: 10/02/2012 The original NBS/NIH DTSA (Desktop Spectrum Analyzer) software was widely used in the x-ray microanalysis research community. The combination of … more
Atomic Scale Imaging of Nanoscale Structures with Elemental Sensitivity in the NIST Titan 80-300
Last Updated Date: 10/02/2012 The characterization of CdSe/ZnS quantum dot structures has been carried out with compositionally sensitive imaging techniques utilizing the … more
Coupling Nanowire Chemisresistors with MEMS Microhotplate Gas Sensing Platforms
Last Updated Date: 10/02/2012 Recent advances in nanotechnology have yielded materials and structures that offer great potential for improving the sensitivity, selectivity, … more
Analysis of Copper Incorporation Into Zinc Oxide Nanowires
Last Updated Date: 10/02/2012 ZnO nanowires (NWs) are grown on bulk copper by chemical vapor deposition. Photoluminescence (PL) microscopy revealed band gap emission at 380 nm … more
Analysis of 3D Elemental Mapping Artifacts in Biological Specimens using Monte Carlo Simulation
Last Updated Date: 10/02/2012 We performed Monte Carlo simulation to demonstrate the feasibility of using the focused ion beam based X-ray microanalysis technique (FIB-EDS) for … more |
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