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Materials

Plastics, carbon nanotubes, high-strength alloys, artificial bone and joint replacements are just some of the emerging materials for which NIST develops testbeds, defines benchmarks, and develops formability measurements and models.

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Projects & Programs

JARVIS-ML

Ongoing

JARVIS-ML introduced Classical Force-field Inspired Descriptors (CFID) as a universal framework to represent a material’s chemistry-structure-charge related data. With the help of CFID and JARVIS-DFT data, several high-accuracy classifications and regression ML models were developed, with

Optical and Optoelectronic Materials Characterization

Ongoing

Today's electronics have reached a point where sheer computation power has combined form and function as the key driver of large consumer markets. The demand for portable and pervasive electronics with greater functionality promises significant changes over the next decades in how society interacts

Nanoscale Spectroscopy for Advanced Electronics, Quantum Materials and Devices

Ongoing

Semiconductor technologies are critical to U.S. economic and national security as they are essential to modern life in communications, healthcare, energy, etc. and also underpin many emerging technologies like quantum, artificial intelligence, high power electronics and advanced wireless (6G+). The

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Facilitating the Adoption of the FAIR Digital Object Framework in Material Science

Ongoing

The FAIR Data Principles define a set of aspirational guidelines for those whose goal is to improve the reusability of their data. However, the FAIR Data Principles do not define an explicit set of requirements to achieve FAIRness, which may vary within and across domains. Various projects have

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Materials by Design

Every “thing” is made of materials — roads, engines and medical devices, to name just a few examples. For centuries, inventing and developing new materials for industrial applications took long amounts of time and tremendous amounts of trial and error. Speeding up that process could save time and money and spur a great deal of innovation across many sectors of the economy. Read about how NIST's Materials Genome Initiative plans to do just that.

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News

How the JFK Assassination Bullets Were Digitally Preserved at NIST

They were long, round-nosed rifle bullets. Their copper metal jackets had the dull color of a worn penny, giving testimony to their age. The gun-barrel rifling impressions on their sides were typical of a bullet fired from a military weapon: four grooves and the resulting ridges called lands — all these marks twisted toward the right by the barrel’s internal rifling. Alongside the bullets were

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NIST & ASTM International Publish Report Highlighting Standards Needs for Circular Textiles

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Biden-Harris Administration Opens $100 million Competition to Accelerate R&D and AI Technologies for Sustainable Semiconductor Materials

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NIST Report Outlines Challenges and Strategic Opportunities to Enhance Drug Detection and Data Sharing

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Upcoming Events

Quantum Matters in Material Sciences (QMMS)

Wed, Feb 19 - Thu, Feb 20 2025

As part of the JARVIS workshop series, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is organizing the 4 th