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        Getting a closer look at living cells and batteries: a little bit of graphene goes a long way
                        March 6, 2020Researchers at NIST have devised a way to eliminate a long-standing problem affecting our understanding of both living cells and batteries. When a solid and an
  Universe in the Balance
                        February 12, 2020Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have found a way to link measurements made by a device integral to microchip
  What a Pair! Coupled Quantum Dots May Offer a New Way to Store Quantum Information
                        January 29, 2020Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their colleagues have for the first time created and imaged a novel pair of quantum

    

  
  

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        Advanced Materials:  Elemental and Chemical Analysis of Microstructured Materials
                  OngoingElectron, ion and photon-based microanalysis methods, instrumentation and protocols are developed to advance measurement science towards the elemental and
  Ab initio theoretical modeling for predicting structure and properties in advanced materials
                  OngoingWe develop first-principles-based methods for prediction of atomic arrangements and properties in advanced materials and develop tools for the prediction and
  Transport Property Measurements for Semiconductors and Energy Materials
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  Sub-nanoscale electron microscopy of complex nanostructures
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        Multiscale Green's functions for modeling graphene and other Xenes
                        January 27, 2023
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                                Vinod  Tewary,   Edward  GarbocziWe give a review of the multiscale Green's function method for modeling modern two-dimensional nanomaterials such as graphene and other Xenes. The method is
  All-Printed Ultrahigh-Responsivity MoS2 Nanosheet Photodetectors Enabled by Megasonic Exfoliation
                        July 5, 2022
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                                Lee J.  Richter,   Lidia  Kuo,   Vinod  Sangwan,   Sonal  Rangnekar,   Ting-Ching  Chu,   David  Lam,   Shehao  Zhu,   Ruipeng  Li,   Julia  Downing,   Benjamin  Luijten,   Lincoln  Lauhon,   Mark  HersamPrinted two-dimensional materials, derived from solution-processed inks, offer scalable and cost-effective routes to mechanically flexible optoelectronics. With
  Fast Near-Infrared Photodetection using III-V Colloidal Quantum Dots
                        June 29, 2022
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                                Lee J.  Richter,   Bin  Sun,   Amin M. Najarian,   Chao  Zheng,   Laxmi K. Sagar,   Min-Jae  Choi,   Xiyan  Li,   Larissa  Levina,   Se-Woong  Baek,   Seungjin  Lee,   Ahmad R. Kirmani,   Jehad  Abed,   Mengxia  Liu,   Peicheng  Li,   Oleksandr  Voznyy,   Zheng H. Lu,   F. Pelayo G. de Arquer,   Edward H. SargentColloidal quantum dots (CQDs) are promising materials for IR light detection due to their tunable bandgap and their solution processing; however, to date, the
  In-situ studies of the swelling by electrolyte in the electrochemical doping of an ethylene glycol substituted polythiophene
                        June 13, 2022
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                                Lee J.  Richter,   Lucas  Flagg,   Lauren  Asselta,   Nicholas  D'Antona,   Natalie  Stingelin,   Tommaso  Nicolini,   Jonathan  Onorato,   Christine  Luscombe,   Ruipeng  LiOrganic mixed ionic electronic conductors (OMIECs) have the potential to enable diverse new technologies, ranging from biosensors to flexible energy storage

  

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        Nanocalorimeter Measurement SystemThis Nanocalorimeter Measurement System is used for nanocalorimetry measurements at fast heating rates (100 °C/s to 100,000 °C/s) and measurements of samples
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